title: I need an address matching algorithm
body: <p>I have looked around online for this but haven't found much really. Basically I need to compare a bunch of addresses to see if they match. The addresses could be written in all different ways. For Example : 1345 135th st NE, 1345 NE 135TH ST, etc. Plus they could be in different languages as well. Before I attempt to write some parsing matching algorithm on my own does anyone know any libraries or ways I could easily do this? My friend though of using google or bing maps web service and passing them the address and getting back the geo-coordinates and comparing using the coordinates instead of string matching. But then I have to call a web service thousands of times for all these addresses I have, not very elegant ;) Any help would be nice :)</p>