What is the best way to deal with address inputs that can be from multiple countries?

Posted by Andrew.S on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Andrew.S
Published on 2010-05-20T00:05:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 0:10 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 145

Filed under:

address

|

country

|

city

Most of my websites in the past have been rather limited to the United States when it came to displaying addresses. On a project I'm working on right now, however, users can add events from all over the world. My problem is how to go about dealing with the different way in which addresses are displayed across the world. For example, City/State/Zip is just a US thing.

I was figuring I would alter the inputs displayed based on the country selected but I have no idea how I'm supposed to know the way every single country does addresses.

Ideas?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about address

Configuring Cisco ASA 5510 to assign static IP address based on MAC address

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi, We have a CISCO ASA 5510 at work. We want to configure the same such that it can serve specific IP addresses based on the MAC address of the clients. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance -knd >>> More
Global Address List, Multiple All Address Lists in CN=Address Lists Container

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
When my colleges (that was way before my time here) updated Exchange 2000 to 2003 a English All Address Lists appeared in addition to the German variant. The English All Address Lists have German titled GAL below it. This has just been a cosmetic problem for the last few years. Now as we are in the… >>> More
Remove address fields from Mac address book using Applescript

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hello, A Facebook Sync app filled the address fields of my Mac Address Book contacts with their cities. Having tons of people who have useless addresses makes it difficult to search by people on Google Maps app (ending up scrolling through many many people- I only want to see those who have proper… >>> More
Problem with setup VPN in Ubuntu Server 12.04

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a problem with setup VPN server on my Ubuntu VPS, here is my server environments: Ubuntu Server 12.04 x86_64 xl2tpd 1.3.1+dfsg-1 pppd 2.4.5-5ubuntu1 openswan 1:2.6.38-1~precise1 After install software and configuration: ipsec verify Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and… >>> More
Problem with setup VPN on Ubuntu Server 12.04

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a problem with setup VPN server on my Ubuntu VPS, here is my server environments: Ubuntu Server 12.04 x86_64 xl2tpd 1.3.1+dfsg-1 pppd 2.4.5-5ubuntu1 openswan 1:2.6.38-1~precise1 After install software and configuration: ipsec verify Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and… >>> More

Related posts about country

Country selection, when country is not listed

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
While this might not 100% match the intent of this site, it was the closest match from Stackexchange sites. So, if a web site (the "entrance" page) offers a choice (a list) of countries, with the text "Chose your country", but the users country is not listed, what should he do? One example is http://www… >>> More
Divide pivot table data by an arbitrary column in another table

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Hello all, I have this data from a pivot table: Countries P1 P2 Total Country 1 10 69 Country 2 36 2 92 Country 3 21 24 100 Country 4 22 77 Country 5 13 79 Country 6 12 1 48 Country 7 14 29 Country 8 22 1 46 Country 9 4 1 31 Country 10 … >>> More
How LINQ to Object statements work

as seen on ASP.net Weblogs - Search for 'ASP.net Weblogs'
This post goes into detail as to now LINQ statements work when querying a collection of objects. This topic assumes you have an understanding of how generics, delegates, implicitly typed variables, lambda expressions, object/collection initializers, extension methods and the yield statement work… >>> More
I would like to filter XSL output based on a Radio button selection

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Here is my example I am trying to filter by year based on user selection: I assume some js or jQuery code would be needed: XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <catalog> <cd> <title>Empire Burlesque3</title> <artist>Bob Dylan</artist> … >>> More
Spanish Botnet Could Paralyze Country

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Authorities say Spanish hackers were not aware that the illegal network they created could have taken down an entire country's computer networks. >>> More