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Re:Random Valid US Address by wodenokoto on Monday September 07, 2015 @01:25AM (#10180170)
Instead of calling it a "valid" address, you should call it an "actual" address.

I thought at first this would generate real looking addresses that would pass automatic validation, but not actually be anywhere.

This is quite different!

Re:Random Valid US Address by chipsambos on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:08AM (#10180823)
I think it's fine. Well, "validity" is contextually sensitive of course. For example, if I want to test addresses against a regex I'm developing then, yes, they are valid but if I want to test my mapping application that geocodes addresses then made up addresses are "invalid".

Since the whole point of an address is that it resolves to a particular geographical location then I would have expected a "Random Valid US Address" to be able to be geocoded.

Re:Random Valid US Address by wodenokoto on Monday September 07, 2015 @10:35PM (#10183934)
The same can be said about credit card or social security numbers - that they should validate to actual cards/people, yet a generator would be expected to not do that, but only produce series that match validation criteria.