title: How do I do address normalizations?
body: <p>I'm interacting with two APIs, which return addresses that are formatted quite differently. One returns an address like "<code>6 Avenue</code>" and another returns "<code>6 Ave.</code>"</p>
  
  <p>I explored using the Normalic gem, but for some reason many of my addresses are returned malformed or blank: "<code>6 Avenue</code>" gets returned as "<code>Ave.</code>".</p>
  
  <p>I also tried GeoCoder, but each API such as Google and Yahoo have set quotas. After a few hours of testing my app in development, these quotas expire. This obviously won't do in production.</p>
  
  <p>It would be great if there was a library that let me do something like evaluate <code>"6 Ave." == "6 Avenue"</code>.</p>