Is there an ISO standard address format? I can't seem to find one, and I'd like to know for object- and database-design purposes.
(One interesting document that shows a bunch of formats is this: http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html, but it's insane!)
No; each country defines its own standard.
There have been a number of questions about this in times past, including:
Best practices for storing postal addresses in an RDBMS
Is there a common street address database design for all addresses of the world
The second of those itself has references to a number of other SO questions.
You might want to check out the grandiosely named Universal Postal Union and its standards.
There are none. However, you can also consider that place is usually contained in a bigger place.
So, you can also use the hierarchical structure of places in following an address format. Which also means it differs from country-to-country.
You can read stuffs about this on:
Universal Postal Union's paper Addressing the world, an address for everyone
Place ontology from schema.org
PostalAddress ontology from schema.org.
Check out the address below.
Address standards
A collection of information on address standards
ISO 19160, Addressing
https://standards.iso.org/iso/19160/
http://www.isotc211.org/
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I would like to see how many times my site was translated and into what languages by month or quarter. Is there a reporting service that provides this data?
I can report on IP address locations so I can see what countries the traffic is coming from and how many PVs. So, for views from Canada, I'd like to know how many times a browser translator was used to translate to French, French-Canadian, or any other language. How do I find this data?
Thanks!
Hi friends I've been looking around for the past few days on a way to find the geolocation of the BGP AS's, preferably through the use of some API. I've been using the ripestat API for the majority of my work on this, but it comes up inconclusive on some of the AS's, for example AS 10000. RIPE tells me the location is in JP. Which is sort of fine, I just would like to narrow it down more to like a city / postal code / etc if possible. Is there another API suited for this? or is it just a manual task of fixing all the information once gathered.
Alternatively, if it is possible to grab the IP address of the actual AS itself, and not the range, that would likely work as well.
IP Geolocation isn't nearly accurate enough to pinpoint an IP to a specific City/ZIP code. In many cases, IPs from the same block will be used across a large area in an ISP's control, so it's not possible to be very accurate. Autonomous Systems don't really have "an IP", as there's no one specific location of them.
If you're looking for the locations where they peer to other providers, you might want to check out PeeringDB.
I have read about the differences of the URI, URN and URL here and here but the answers talk of the differences of the last letter, that is, the differences amongst identifier, name and location respectively.
What I have not understood is why all these terms have the word 'uniform' and what is uniform about them. This Wikipedia section doesn't mention much about the reason why the change was made from 'universal' to 'uniform'.
I would like to find the missing explanation and not just memorize the terms as they are without fully understanding them.
Based on Tim Berners-Lee’s own account, as published in his book Weaving the Web:
At an IETF meeting, Tim Berners-Lee tried to form a working group that would create an Internet standard for what he suggested to be named universal document identifiers.
About the meeting, in his words (page 61):
[…] there was a strong reaction against the "arrogance" of calling something a universal document identifier. How could I be so presumptuous as to define my creation as "universal"? If I wanted the UDI addresses to be standardized, then the name "uniform document identifiers" would certainly suffice.
While he didn’t agree (it was an issue of whether the Web could be something "universal"), there wasn’t much time and so (page 62):
I was willing to compromise so I could get to the technical details. So universal became uniform, and document became resource.
They formed "a uniform resource identifier working group". (And this group then decided that "identifier" wasn’t a good label, and they chose "locator" instead, forming "URL" – which he also didn’t agree with.)
The current URI Internet standard (RFC 3986) describes the meaning of "Uniform", "Resource" and "Identifier" in section 1.1.
I would like to use GraceNote to generate play-lists which contain songs likely to appeal to, or, at least, be known to, residents of a given country. E.G, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Brazil, France ...
They don't necessarily have to be in the local language, as I don't think that I can do that with GraceNote (can I ?), but local artists would be nice. Is there any way, for instance, to query and generate a playlist using artist origin?
I realize that something like Gangnam Style might be known in most countries ;-) and that play-list generation is inexact when used this way, but I would be happy with a 70 or 80% "I know that song" reaction.
Can it be done? If so, how? #cweichen, can you help?
It seems likely you are referring the the Rhythm API. As you probably can see from the function definition, you cannot create a playlist using 'ARTIST_ORIGIN'.
The closest thing I can think of is creating a playlist (aka radio station) using on a popular song in the given country as a seed.
You may try configuring the 'focus_similarity' value to get a wider variety of songs. This is just a suggestion and I am not sure if this will get you what your looking for.
*Pygn currently does not support 'focus_similarity' configuration but it should not be too difficult to add yourself.
I may start working on a project very similar to Hipmunk.com, where it pulls the hotel cost information by calling different APIs (like expedia, orbitz, travelocity, hotels.com etc)
I did some research on this, but I am not able to find any unique hotel id or any field to match the hotels between several API's. Anyone have experience on how can to compare the hotel from expedia with orbitz or travelcity etc?
Thanks
EDIT: Google also doing the same thing http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/
From what I have seen of GDS systems, and these API's there is rarely a unique identifier between systems for e.g. hotels
Airports, airlines and countries have unique ISO identifiers: http://www.iso-code.com/airports.2.html
I would guess you are going to have to have your own internal mapping to identify and disambiguate the properties.
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When you get started with hotel APIs, the choice of free ones isn't really that big, see e.g. here for an overview.
The most extensive and accessible one is Expedia's EAN http://developer.ean.com/ which includes Sabre and Venere with unique IDs but still each structured differently.
That is, you are looking into different database tables.
You do get several identifies such as Name, Address, and coordinates, which can serve for unique identification, assuming they are free of errors. Which is an assumption.