Telephone numbers, understood.
Features
- from national to international number format
- separate country prefix, area code, and base number
- geocode (based on country and area code)
- distinguish mobile from fixed line numbers
- carrier information
Applications
Tel number parsing is used in SearchCluster to efficiently index records, for inexact search recall, and in-detail record matching. The geocoding part is used for that, geocoding, and to provide cultural context.
Built on open data and open source
Optimaize leverages open-source software for telephone number parsing and geocoding, and has built functionality on top of that.