How to check if an address is a business or residential address

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I have a dataset that contains many addresses (60,000-ish entries). I want to classify these addresses into either residential or business addresses.

Does anyone know a good API/Service to get started doing this?

  • I don't think the google maps geocoder can do this at this time.

  • Fedex and UPS both seem to have API's but they are only released to companies that are shipping products (sort of a need to know basis only)

USPS API: https://www.usps.com/nationalpremieraccounts/rdi.htm

Fedex API:http://www.fedex.com/us/developer/web-services/index.html

This is a hobby project, so free or cheap are better! But paid solutions are not out of the question.

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