Free Australian Address Validation, Search and Autocomplete - addressr.mountain-pass.com.au

1. Install addressr

   npm install @mountainpass/addressr -g
   

   NOTE: If you are running windows, you'll need to use wsl

2. Start elastic search. For example run

   docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.2.0
   docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.2.0
   

3. Start API server. In a second window run:

   export ELASTIC_PORT=9200
   export ELASTIC_HOST=localhost
   addressr-server
   

4. Setup the env vars for the data loader. In a third window run:

   export ELASTIC_PORT=9200
   export ELASTIC_HOST=localhost
   export ADDRESSR_INDEX_TIMEOUT=30s
   export ADDRESSR_INDEX_BACKOFF=1000
   export ADDRESSR_INDEX_BACKOFF_INCREMENT=1000
   export ADDRESSR_INDEX_BACKOFF_MAX=10000
   

   1. Optional - enable geocodes by setting the following env vars for the data loader. In the third window run: NOTE: with geocodes enabled, indexing takes much longer and needs much more memory. Only use turn them on if you need them. You can always add them later.

   export ADDRESSR_ENABLE_GEO=1
   export NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=8196
   

   2. Optional - limit the addresses to a single state by setting the COVERED_STATES env var for the data loader. This dramatically speeds up indexing. For example, in the third window run:

   export COVERED_STATES=VIC,SA
   

   Valid values are:

   • ACT
   • NSW
   • NT
   • OT
   • QLD
   • SA
   • TAS
   • VIC
   • WA

5. Run data Loader. In the third window run:

   addressr-loader
   

6. OK, so we stretched the truth a bit with the "Quick Start" heading. The truth is that it takes quite a while to download, store and index the 13+ million addresses from data.gov.au. So make a coffee, or tea, or find something else to do and come back in about an hour when it's done.

7. Search for an address

   curl -i http://localhost:8080/addresses?q=LEVEL+25,+TOWER+3
   

8. Wire you address form up to the address-server api.

9. An updated G-NAF is released every 3 months. Put addressr-loader in a cron job or similar to keep addressr regularly updated

elasticsearch-oss >= 7.2.0 with 1.4GiB of memory

Node JS >= 11.14.0 with 1GiB of memory

Node JS >= 11.14.0 with 8GiB of memory

Node JS >= 11.14.0 with 64MiB of memory