# How to verify if address is a real address?

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**Created:** [June 16, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-verify-if-address-is-a-real-address/43179 "2022-06-16T22:38:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-verify-if-address-is-a-real-address/43179/5 "2022-06-17T00:05:52Z")

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Personally I would not verify an address because there are a lot of ways to represent an address and the API may not catch all those variants to verify it correctly.

What I would do is showing them possible real addresses using their input.

A free way to do that is using Nominatim.

> [@Fetch Column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fetch-column/31731/13):
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> As promised: [[Glide: Fetch Column] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWrs8bRNyS4)

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