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One thing that should be standard by now is for addresses in the USA or other countries that have ZIP or Postal codes per municipality or area, the zip/postal should be entered first and auto fill the city if it is unique. There should be very few times where "USA, 20755" doesn't give the correct location.

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This has always bothered me with web forms.

Back in 1992, I developed networked databases applications for macOS using Panorama. It included looking up city and state from ZIP codes. The only times I recall it getting the wrong info was in cases of recent city boundary changes.

Panorama still exists, it was so much better than Access or FileMaker.

https://provue.com

I just implemented the USPS APIs and they all require a street address in order to succeed, due to the need for disambiguation. What I really wanted was something like you describe, because I don't always have a street address so much as a general region. All the other API offerings are way too pricey for my purposes, or look scammy. I ended up scraping Wikipedia and making a generic spreadsheet instead.

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