Whats my address

WHAT’S MY ADDRESS?

BRIAN TEEMAN NORTH WEST DRUPAL UNCONFERENCE

BRIAN TEEMAN‣ CO-FOUNDER

JOOMLA! ‣ HERE FOR THE

BEER ‣ ALWAYS A GEEK ‣ IN THE 90’S I MADE

CD-ROMS ‣ @BRIANTEEMAN

1997 - FIRST UK ADDRESS CD

REMEMBER THESE?

ACCOUNT OWNER ONLY

ELECTORAL ROLL

SHIP IT ALL TO CHINA

1997 - FIRST UK ADDRESS CD

THEY CLAIMED IT WAS ILLEGAL BUT COULDN’T FIND A LAW THAT IT BROKE

Brian Teeman 2016

NWDUG 2016

I’M A DATA GEEK

WHAT’S MY NAME?http://tee.mn/name

WHAT’S MY ADDRESS? - THE SEQUEL

WHAT’S MY ADDRESS

WHAT’S MY ADDRESS

WHICH COUNTRY DO YOU LIVE IN?

ARE YOU SURE?

POST CODE / ZIP CODE

FACTS‣ [A-Z] [0-9] ‣ SMALL AREA ‣ NOT UNIQUE ‣ SEQUENTIAL?

FACTS OR LIES

M14 6ZZ UK123-4567 JAPANA1A 1A1 CANADA

POST CODE

2015 EIRCODE A UNIQUE CODE FOR EVERY ADDRESS

UNIQUE AND NOT SEQUENTIAL

VALIDATION?$ZIPREG=ARRAY( "US"=>"^\D{5}([\-]?\D{4})?$", "UK"=>"^(GIR|[A-Z]\D[A-Z\D]??|[A-Z]{2}\D[A-Z\D]??)[ ]??(\D[A-Z]{2})$", "DE"=>"\B((?:0[1-46-9]\D{3})|(?:[1-357-9]\D{4})|(?:[4][0-24-9]\D{3})|(?:[6][013-9]\D{3}))\B", "CA"=>"^([ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVXY]\D[ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ])\ {0,1}(\D[ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ]\D)$", "FR"=>"^(F-)?((2[A|B])|[0-9]{2})[0-9]{3}$", "IT"=>"^(V-|I-)?[0-9]{5}$", "AU"=>"^(0[289][0-9]{2})|([1345689][0-9]{3})|(2[0-8][0-9]{2})|(290[0-9])|(291[0-4])|(7[0-4][0-9]{2})|(7[8-9][0-9]{2})$", "NL"=>"^[1-9][0-9]{3}\S?([A-ZA-Z]{2})?$", "ES"=>"^([1-9]{2}|[0-9][1-9]|[1-9][0-9])[0-9]{3}$", "DK"=>"^([D|D][K|K]( |-))?[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3}$", "SE"=>"^(S-|S-){0,1}[0-9]{3}\S?[0-9]{2}$", "BE"=>"^[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3}$", "IN"=>"^\D{6}$" );

EVERY PRESENTATION NEEDS CATS

COUNTY NOT COUNTRY

.*\b[^\sr]+\b.*/ig

COUNTIES‣ HOW MANY? ‣ 96 (TODAY) ‣ CEREMONIAL ‣ ADMINISTRATIVE ‣ CONFUSED?

WHAT COUNTY ARE WE IN?

GREATER MANCHESTER ?

ROYAL MAIL SAYS NO!

SCUNTHORPE

SCUNTHORPE

SCUNTHORPE‣ YORKSHIRE ‣ EAST RIDING OF

YORKSHIRE ‣ HUMBERSIDE ‣ 1996 HUMBERSIDE

CEASED TO EXIST ‣ NORTH

LINCOLNSHIRE

HUMBERSIDE STILL EXISTS

FIRE POLICE

CONFUSED YET?

EAST MIDLANDS

SO WHAT COUNTY DO I LIVE IN?

AROUND THE WORLD

MONGOLIA

MONGOLIA

‣ 3X > SPAIN ‣ <3M PEOPLE ‣ NO RELIABLE

STREET NAMES ‣ NEED A SOLUTION ‣ SUMMER 2016

MONGOLIA

‣ 3M SQUARE ‣ UNIQUE ‣ EASIER THAN GPS ‣ MEMORABLE ‣ MULTILINGUAL ‣ FREE(?)

WHAT3WORDS

WHAT3WORDS

COSTA RICA

COSTA RICA - TICO (LANDMARK)

200M SOUTH

100M EAST

ON THE RIGHT

‣ TICO OR A PO BOX ‣ $720M LOST MAIL ‣ 2016 ADDED

STREETS AND NUMBERS

‣ POPULATION NOT HAPPY

‣ CHANGE - BLAH

COSTA RICA

JAPAN

JAPAN

JAPAN

1

23

4

56

78

HOUSE

HOUSE NUMBER

HOUSE NAME

HOUSE NUMBER AND NAME

HOUSE ?

W231 N7956 Baker St Essex WI 58039 USA

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

WHOSE ADDRESS IS IT ANYWAY?

Brian Teeman 2016

NWDUG 2016

DOING IT WRONG

‣ FIELDS ‣ VALIDATION ‣ ERRORS ‣ REQUIRED ‣ CROWDSOURCE

DOING IT WRONG

DOING IT RIGHT

DOING IT GLOBAL

LET ME ENTER MY CORRECT ADDRESS NOT SOMETHING THAT PASSES YOUR CHECKS.

Brian Teeman 2016

NWDUG 2016

IF YOU DO NEED IT THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO WITH IT.

Brian Teeman 2016

NWDUG 2016

WHAT’S MY ADDRESS

DON’T BE NOSEY. IF YOU DON’T NEED MY ADDRESS DON’T ASK FOR IT!

Brian Teeman 2016

NWDUG 2016

THANK YOU