First, my compliments on Zindus - it is a great tool. Thanks for the hard work!

Second: I would like to ask if you all could be proactive and create an option to sync to Google addresses using some variation of text+separator as discussed above (commas would be fine!) for the forward sync to Google. This seems relatively easy - and the option box could have the explanation of fields. Otherwise, waiting until Google fixes things on their end could be a long wait!

The power of (for example) properly formatted addresses synced TBird Google mobile device with Google Maps is compelling. If I understand things, the users who might choose this option would have to structure any addresses entered in Google with, say, 6 comma separated fields for Google to TBird syncing to work, but that seems much easier than the current XML based scheme. Thus what I am saying (echoing sentiments above) is:

- For sync TBird -> Google, the address would be entered into TBird as usual, and would appear in Google with comma separators (and comma - space for missing fields).

For addresses entered directly into Google contacts list, the needed fields would be
addressline1, addressline2, city, state/province, zip/postalcode, country
(missing fields would result in ” , , ” to keep things simple for humans) . A simple test worked as desired with Google maps, e.g.
El Radal 80, , Lo Barnechea, Santiago, , Chile
worked including the extra commas as shown for an address here in Chile (using postal codes is not common!).

- For sync Google -> TBird, the users would have to include place holders for all the fields whether used or not. This seems MUCH easier and simpler than the XML scheme.

Thanks for considering this, and again, thanks for the great work!

The testing release has a workaround for it.

FWIW, same config as “R.” above: Macbook Pro, Snow Leopard, TB3.0

My config : Macbook Pro, Snow Leopard, TB 3.0

When google’s postal-address-parsing feature is released then your postal addresses at Google should just appear in Thunderbird without you having to do anything. That’s the plan anyway.

I was working with the right release. But I had all my addresses in my GMail Account and none in the Thunderbird Address Book. I was kind of expecting that the first sync would change all my addresses in the gmail contacts into the xml-format - of course leaving the street-, city- and country-field empty while moving the actual address into the otheraddr-field. I was waiting for that changes to be done after syncing so i could go into my gmail contacts and cut&paste the street, city, and country from the otheraddr-field into the right xml-statement-fields.

I’ve now tried it the other way around - as it is supposed to be done - and yep, it works fine. Doesn’t help me too much since all my contacts are as i said in my gmail contacts - but I know it’s not your fault :).

However, Zindus is a really great add-on and makes it much more easier to work, I appreciate all your work on it.