Geo name resolver

[daguar]

Need a resolver for variations on geographic names.

Ideally, this would profile the data set and determine if it was: states, counties (FIPS), countries, etc. (perhaps regions of the US?) essentially allowing an easy mapping to a shapefile set.

For example, for states, we should accept all of the following:

• Massachusetts
• massachusetts
• MA (USPS abbreviation)
• Mass. (AP abbreviation)

and resolve to some standard (I'm thinking full name, eg Massachusetts; though this could later be a configurable option).

For a full list see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations

This is probably worth making a standalone repo/lib.

[daguar]

@ycombinator -- This is the fuller version of what you were asking for.

Funny enough, I can't find an equivalent JS library for this:
http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-StreetAddress-US-0.99/US.pm