The service or library that cleans the address needs to be callable from a custom .NET wrapper service or library. There is no UI requirement to display a map, or track delivery of a physical package to a postal address.
https://www.usps.com/business/webtools.htm is out as an option because the terms of use are restricted to applications supporting the physical delivery of packages.
It seems that both google and Bing have terms of use that restrict application development usage to presentation of maps in a UI.
Here's an example of using google JavaScript library for geocoding address lookups. It seems to work well. Unfortunately I can’t use this, but looking for something that works nearly as well.
http://jsfiddle.net/Robotronic/ayfgT/
I have been looking for the same thing lately, and have a couple of possibilities. Since I don't have my home computer at work, the only one I can remember now is SmartyStreets.com. They give you a small number for free, then you have to pay after that. I have one more, which I can get a little later tonight.
It may be out of your price range, but my company has used Melissa Data for quite a while and the only failures were on super-new housing developments. I think they also send us periodic database updates.
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I currently have a few apps that I provide to clients by setting them up on their own website. The app uses their own SQL database to record any transactions.
Recently, the number of customers I supply the app to has increased, leading to a higher maintenance work load as each installation must be managed separately.
I'm ready to move to the next level and want to host the app in a single cloud based environment so that I only have to maintain one instance. I would then provide access to that app to each client site, for example embed it in an iframe or perhaps deliver it via a sub-domain. I am not sure about where the DB would sit?
However, this is new territory for me and I'm not sure where to begin. The app is very small and quite simple. I've read a lot of stuff about SAAS but most of it seems quite enterprise level, I'm really looking for a simple and easy to use starting point.
What's the current best practice for this kind of setup and what might be a good guide to read or platform to use?
was wondering if anyone had a solution (hopefully simple) for how to change the repository that a SAPUI5 app pulls from.
i.e. when I'm accessing my app (might be hosted anywhere, but for argument's sake lets say on HCP in EU) and I'm in the EU, it makes sense to use the EU repository:
https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-cachebuster/sap-ui-core.js
when in the US however, I'm going to get much better performance if I use the US repository:
https://sapui5.us1.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-cachebuster/sap-ui-core.js
But short of having a US app and a EU app, how can I achieve this? I don't want to pop-up a request for the user to allow their browser to know where they are via using HTML Geo capabilities http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html and it seems most solutions to map IP addresses to location charge a fee (which I don't want to have to pay)
The standard way for this sort of thing on the web (afaik) would be just to use one address and have a CDN sort it out for you.
This doesn't seem to have happened for SAPUI5.
Anyone know why not? Or perhaps it has, and I just don't know about it, that would also be a very happily received answer.
Now, as of January 2015 there is such a CDN (with geo routing) implemented for OpenUI5 (or more specifically, for everything below the URL https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com).
It does not only serve the data from the closest SAP data center (Germany, USA, Australia), but uses the popular Akamai CDN technology on top, which provides thousands of servers around the world.
See http://openui5.tumblr.com/post/108835000027/openui5-in-your-neighborhood-a-true-cdn-has-gone for more details.
there is currently no such CDN with automatic routing to the closest server, sorry.
Reasons? Lack of time, money, demand...
There may be even free offerings for Open Source libs, but the total of UI5 is larger than your typical JS lib, so I'm not sure they would want it. And in older IE versions the cross-domain loading wasn't working anyway due to missing CORS support, hence a local deployment was preferred. And custom-tailored minimized runtimes for apps are the best for good performance, this is also not something a CDN can deliver. So currently there is no such thing even though it would be obviously good to have.
UI5 will load awesome fast if is part of a real app. Real app means a installable app from an App Store were the UI5 library is part of the app itself and not loaded from a server. That is the real destiny of UI5 and not putting it on a Gateway/Server (the Fiori Way, although there is the Fiori Client which tries to solve this).
I understand that SAP wants SAPUI5 on the backend because of integration in the SAP software lifecycle management. But it is bought with bad performance and caching issues. A very high price in my opinion! Luckily OpenUI5 is free to be part of real apps.
I am wondering how to go about implementing Location Automation Field, as suggested in this article: http://uxmovement.com/forms/new-form-techniques-proven-to-save-time-and-money/
Are there libraries or services that can help me figure out City/State given the zipcode? I know Google has the Geocoder/decoder or Google Places search that could potentially be useful but their Terms of Use mandate that you must use their services in conjunction with displaying the results on their map, which is a weird thing to do when the user is filling out billing info...
Cheers to you for observing TOS. That's good business.
You could use SmartyStreets. LiveAddress API supports city/state and ZIP code lookups. It now has auto-complete as you type an address, too.
I work at SmartyStreets. In fact, we developed the jQuery plugin which does address validation and auto-complete for you. It even supports freeform address fields.
Related question by yours truly, over on UX stack exchange: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/22196/combining-all-the-address-fields-into-one
I'm searching for a shopping cart or web store framework that supports multiple vendors.
There are many, many shopping cart frameworks out there: that page lists couple of hundred. In spite of the comparisons on that page, supporting multiple vendors isn't a comparison item, probably because it's a rare requirement. Separate to that page I have evaluated a few of what appear to be the top frameworks, and none that I evaluated supported this feature. Which carts would you recommend?
Commercial is okay, although I would prefer open source.
Platform (Windows, Linux, ASP.Net, PHP, Ruby... Minix, Fortran... :)) doesn't matter.
A system
where I manually add vendors who request it (instead of them freely
being able to sign up) is also okay, if there's a store where that's
possible but freely joining up isn't built in yet.
Rationale: I'd like to create an app-store like website. "App store" is a close analogy: it won't sell apps, but it will sell digital goods and I'd like anyone to be able to sell their item on the store. It's this second requirement, multiple vendors selling through the store, that I'm finding hard to satisfy.
I've used multiple shopping cart frameworks (a lot of them broken), and my favorite (which just so happens to support multiple vendors) is PrestaShop. It's free, open source, and suppports all that you asked for. Is this the framework you were looking for?
-JXP
The Wikipedia page you cited lists multiple vendor support as a column in Other Features, along with features that are pertinent to your search.
This question otherwise requires domain knowledge and likely requires multiple answers. The best I can do is offer the bounded set of software that competes directly within this space, at least according to Wikipedia.
The easiest solution for achieving your stated goal of allowing multiple people to sell on your site while exercising fine-grained control of who can and cannot do so is perhaps using WPMU's MarketPress in tandem with BuddyPress or WordPress Multisite. I'm not a die-hard fan of WordPress, per se, but that might be an expedient way for you to get to a minimal viable product and to validate your idea before shelling out the time and/or cash to custom build it from the ground up, and/or labor ad nauseam with tweaking an existing framework. MarketPress is a good plug-in that'll give you many of the features of a full-fledged e-commerce framework... BuddyPress, of course, will allow you to set up individual vendor's with their own sites under your brand. The two work together. More on MarketPress at:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/e-commerce/installation/
Another alternative is Jimdo's PagePartners. I haven't used it, but it looks intriguing. I like their design sensibilities, and their stated business ethos. This might be a viable option, too. The caveat being: it's not white label. More info about Jimdo's PagePartners here:
http://www.jimdo.com/pagepartner/faq/
Finally, another interesting CMS to explore is SetSeed. I think it'll allow you to launch multiple sites for each vendor via a central hub you control, and will allow you to maintain your branding within each. How, the,n any sort of renumeration would flow back to you for setting up an individual vendor's store would be up to you to figure out... This is a fairly new CMS and it looks like it's evolving smartly and rapidly. If you require some customization of it, to approach more specifically what you ask for, now might be a good time to reach out to the developer...but you might be able to think of an effective way to adapt it for your use right out of the box.
http://setseed.com/multi-site-cms/setseed-hub/
Unfortunately, none of the above is open-source--but, again, the ease by which you could get to a functional site approximating your idea may off-set that drawback. Jimdo is an open-source contributor, however. So, maybe even an e-mail to them might be a fruitful dialogue to begin. If anything, check out each of the above, and it may influence how you search for other solutions, and will at least provide some models in your own thinking or with other developers. The shopping cart is an integrated feature, I believe, in all of the above cases. With regard to giving your vendors the capacity to deliver digital goods (e-books, mp3s, etc.), check out Fetchapp.com. Very cool app. Very easy to set-up...could probably be rolled into one of the above frameworks. The frameworks would handle the issue of individual vendor profiles and/or sub-domains.
I've done quite a bit of searching for a CMS platform or robust framework that will perhaps facilitate the management of signup and subscriptions right of the box with a Twilio tie in.
Thus far I've only been successful at finding how many startups have been funded by the Twilio fund, who's building the nextgen voice enabled app, and various other things of that nature vs any real meat. Seems that there's a dearth of meaningful information without applying a plethora of negative google filters to reduce matches and even then it's still not giving anything real meaningful wrt my search.
So, I'm hoping that someone may have a better eye on the lay of the Twilio landscape as far as already existent systems go that can handle the bulk of needs that exist for a "regular" CMS esque site that needs to also handle subscriptions and e-commerce related tasks.
Hitherto I've just planned to build something out myself, but I wanted to do a sanity check before I spend a lot of time that could perhaps be obviated.
My suggestion would be to find a CMS that does everything you want (except the twilio links), on the platform you want, and then just add the Twilio stuff in. Twilio is simple to use, and should be simple to add-on to most open source CMS's. It'll probably be the easiest part of the project....