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Landmark & Complex Addressing

How AddressValid captures complex address structures, landmarks, and informal directions.

Updated: July 20261 min read

Addressing Realities in Complex Markets

In rapidly growing urban centers, traditional formal street numbering is often incomplete or non-existent. Over 70% of deliveries rely on landmark-based navigation.

AddressValid treats landmarks as first-class physical entities rather than unstructured text notes.

Landmark & Directional Parsing

Our engine recognizes and extracts key directional components:

  • Landmark Anchors: "Opposite Domino's Pizza", "Beside First Bank", "Behind Ikeja City Mall"
  • Gate / Color References: "Blue Gate", "Black Gate", "Corner House"
  • Estate Boundaries: "Chevron Cooperative Estate", "VGC", "Nicon Town"
  • District Aliases: "V.I", "Lekki Phase 1", "Computer Village", "Bodija"
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{ "input": "Opp Chevron, Lekki", "parsed": { "primary_anchor": "Chevron HQ", "spatial_relation": "OPPOSITE", "district": "Lekki", "canonical_name": "Chevron Drive, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lekki, Lagos" } }

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