Programatically find common European street names

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Published on 2010-02-11T15:57:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 18:40 UTC
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Hi,

I am in the middle of designing a web form for German and French users. Within this form, the users would have to type street names several times.

I want to minimize the annoyance to the user, and offer autocomplete feature based on common French and German street names.

Any idea where I can a royalty-free list?

Thanks a bunch,

Adam

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