deduplication: ignore periods when comparing names#1718
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This is a small extension to our deduplication logic so that periods in names will be ignored when comparing for dedupication. For example, a query for `3929 St Marks Avenue, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada` returns two duplicate addresses from OpenAddresses. One is sourced from a countrywide dataset, and another a regional dataset. One has a period after the abbreviation for Saint, one doesn't. We should probably evaluate ignoring most or all punctuation, but this fixes a somewhat common case for now.
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This is a small extension to our deduplication logic so that periods in names will be ignored when comparing for dedupication.
For example, a query for
3929 St Marks Avenue, Niagara Falls, ON, Canadareturns two duplicate addresses from OpenAddresses. One is sourced from a countrywide dataset, and another a regional dataset. One has a period after the abbreviation for Saint, one doesn't.We should probably evaluate ignoring most or all punctuation, but this fixes a somewhat common case for now.