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Falsehoods

An address is not always a point on a map, a polygon, or a discrete building. It may not sit at ground level, may not be the only address at its coordinates, and may not stay in one place.

This article series is inspired by and cites Michael Tandy's original catalogue of address falsehoods, maintained since 2013. Tandy's article is a taxonomy of assumptions that break parsers, validators, and databases. This series expands on that taxonomy, adding historical context on how geocoders have handled (or failed to handle) each category, and what Mailwoman's neural approach changes.

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"Close enough" is a statement about your use case, not about the coordinate. A geocode that is correct for statistical aggregation may be catastrophically wrong for emergency dispatch. And the coordinate itself answers a question — "the front door" — that nobody bothered to define.

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