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1. o 11 12 15 LocationPrecision codes 13 14 15 16 No coordinate information is available for this candidate address Interpolated street address Street segment midpoint Postal code 1 centroid Partial postal code 2 centroid Postal code 2 centroid Intersection Point of interest State province centroid County centroid City centroid Locality centroid For most countries LocationPrecision codes 12 through 15 are reserved for unspecified custom items Additional point precision for unspecified custom item Additional point precision for unspecified custom item Additional point precision for unspecified custom item The result is an Address Point 29 Output Field Name Description The result was generated by using address point data to modify the candidates segment data StreetDataType The default search order rank of the database used to geocode the address A value of 1 indicates that the database is first in the default search order 2 indicates that the database is second in the default search order and so on The default database search order is specified in the Management Console with the Database Resources tool 30 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Notices 32 2013 Pitney Bowes Software Inc All rights reserved MapInfo and Group 1 Software are trademarks of Pitney Bowes Software Inc All other marks and trademarks are property of their respective holder2. Mpilo Road Maseru Avenue Moukhtar Soussi 28630 Ain Harrouda Rue 97 Bamako Avenida 24 De Julho Maputo Rue Ely ould Mohamed Nouakchott Victor Hugo Street Beau Bassin Presidential Way Lilongwe Katanga Street Swakopmund Avenue de I Afrique Niamey Limpopo Street Abuja Avenue De La Gendarmerie Kigali Rue GY 501 Dakar Mbangweni Street Mbabane De La Marina Boulevard Lom Rue Aflatoun Ben Arous Kiyungi Street Dar es Salaam Rubaga Road Kampala Freedom Way Kitwe Kirwith Road Bulawayo Punctuation is ignored for geocoding purposes Guidelines for Single Line Input Punctuation is generally ignored however you may improve results and performance by using separators commas semicolons etc between different address elements The country is not required Each country geocoder assumes that the address is in its country Firm information placename building name or government building is returned if available Options Geocode Address Global allows you to set default processing options through the Management Console You can override certain settings for individual calls to Geocode Address Global using the API or Spectrum Technology Platform client tools such as Enterprise Designer Geocode Africa 13 Options Geocoding Options The following table lists the options that control how a location s coordinates are determined Table 2 Default Geocoding Options Option Name Des
3. Not used SEN Senegal Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used TZA Tanzania Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used Specifies whether candidates must match the state or province or equivalent to be considered a close match The majority of African and Middle East countries do not use a state province or equivalent as part of an address If a state province is matched it can contribute to a higher candidate ranking but there is no penalty if state province is omitted or unmatched AGO Angola Not used BEN Benin Not used BWA Botswana Not used 19 Options Option Name Description CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used MUS Mauritius Not used MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used SWZ Swaziland Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used TZA Tanzania Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used Postal code Specifies whether candidates must match the postal code to be considered a close match If you do not require exact
4. MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used e MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used TZA Tanzania Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used This field is not used with countries included with the African bundle Product Code XA1 These African countries generally have less comprehensive address coverage Name of the company or a place name The number for the matched location 23 Output 24 Field Name HouseNumberHigh HouseNumberLow HouseNumberParity Language LastLine LeadingDirectional Locality Description The highest house number of the range in which the address resides The lowest house number of the range in which the address resides Indicates if the house number range contains even or odd numbers or both E Even 0 Odd B Both U Unknown For reverse geocoded candidates the two character language code is returned Complete last address line city state province and postal code Street directional that precedes the street name For example the N in 138 N Main Street The meaning of locality varies by country African and Middle East countries do not use a locality or equivalent as part of an
5. Avenue du Docteur Jamot Douala Boulevard Patrice Lumumba Kinshasa Avenue Coutassi Brazzaville Avenue Gabriel Lendoye Libreville Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name Geocode Africa Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description Mamleshie Road Accra Taratibu Street Mombasa Mpilo Road Maseru Avenue Moukhtar Soussi 28630 Ain Harrouda Rue 97 Bamako Avenida 24 De Julho Maputo Rue Ely ould Mohamed Nouakchott Victor Hugo Street Beau Bassin Presidential Way Lilongwe Katanga Street Swakopmund Avenue de l Afrique Niamey Limpopo Street Abuja Avenue De La Gendarmerie Kigali Rue GY 501 Dakar Mbangweni Street Mbabane De La Marina Boulevard Lom Rue Aflatoun Ben Arous Kiyungi Street Dar es Salaam Rubaga Road Kampala Freedom Way Kitwe Skirwith Road Bulawayo Input Field Name AddressLine2 City County FirmName Description This field can also contain the full address For more information see Single Line Input on page 12 This field is not used with countries included with the African bundle Product Code XA1 or the Middle East bundle Product Code ME1 The African and Middle Eastern countries generally have less comprehensive address coverage The city or town name Your input address should use the official city name The meaning of county varies by country AGO Angola Not used BDI Burundi Not used
6. Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used e MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used e SWZ Swaziland Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used TZA Tanzania Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used 11 Input Field Name Description ZWE Zimbabwe Not used Address Guidelines for Africa Geocode Address Global with the Africa database provides street level city or geographic geocoding for many African countries These countries are bundled as the Africa database Product Code XA1 Follow these guidelines to provide input that Geocode Address Global can successfully geocode African addresses Required fields Addresses must contain a city Thoroughfare types Thoroughfare types and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported on input and output Common words and abbreviations The geocoder recognizes common words directionals house number indicators and abbreviations used in addresses and can geocode these addresses successfully Note Postal geocoding is generally not available with the African database Morocco MAR is the only country in the XA1 Africa database that has postal code data and therefore the only country in this database that supports postal geocoding I
7. BEN Benin Not used BFA Burkina Faso Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used GHA Ghana Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used e MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used e MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used TZA Tanzania Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used This field is not used with countries included with the African bundle Product Code XA1 These African countries generally have less comprehensive address coverage This field is not used with countries included with the African bundle Product Code XA1 These countries generally have less comprehensive address coverage Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description HouseNumber LastLine Geocode Africa The building number You may get better parsing results for some countries if you put the house number in this field instead of AddressLine1 Not every country includes house number data Note Th
8. address However there is no penalty if state province is used in input address AGO Angola Not used BEN Benin Not used BFA Burkina Faso Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used GHA Ghana Not used KEN Kenya Not used e LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used e MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used e MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used SWZ Swaziland Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used UGA Uganda Not used Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Field Name Description ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used NumberOfCandidateRanges Indicates the number of ranges of which the candidate is a member A candidate may be a part of multiple ranges if the candidate is a street instead of a building To specify the number of ranges to return for each candidate use the Maximum ranges per candidate option NumberOfRangeUnits Indicates the number of units included in the range A unit is an address within a building such as an apartment or office suite To specify the
9. an address database have an A at the end of the match score For example SSHPNTSCZA is a match score that comes from an address database while SSHPNTSCZU comes from a custom database For more information see Result Codes for International Geocoding Specifies whether to use the database search list specified in the Management Console under the database resources tools Modules gt Enterprise Geocoding gt Tools If you choose to override the default database search list you may change the search order of the databases in the Database search list field You may also remove databases from the search list If you override the default database search list changes to the database resources will not be reflected in the database search list which may cause geocoding to fail However if you do not override the default database search order any changes to the database resources will be automatically reflected by the geocoder For example if a database resource is moved from one directory to another and you update the database resources accordingly Modules gt Enterprise Geocoding gt Tools the database location will be automatically updated in the geocoder 21 Output Option Name Description Database search list The name of one or more database resources to use in the search process Use the database name specified in the Management Console s Database Resources tool You can specify multiple database resources If you specify
10. for an exact street address match within the postal code in the input address Relaxing the conditions broadens the area in which it searches for a match For example by relaxing the postal code the geocoder searches for candidates outside the postal code but within the city of your input address Table 3 Default Matching Options Option Name Description Keep multiple matches Specifies whether to return results when the address matches to multiple candidates in the database If this option is not selected an address that results in multiple candidates will fail to geocode If you select this option specify the maximum number of candidates to return next to the check box Specify 1 minus one to return all possible candidates Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Option Name Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description Return ranges Maximum ranges per candidate Maximum units per range Close matches only Match mode All input House number Geocode Africa Specifies whether to return address range information If you enable this option the output field Ranges Will be included in the output A range is a series of addresses along a street segment For example 5400 5499 Main St is an address range representing addresses in the 5400 block of Main St A range may represent just odd or even addresses within a segment or both odd and even addresses A range may also represent a single bui
11. Spectrum Technology Platform Version 9 0 Geocode Africa Contents Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa uz22222200000002002n02nnnnnn0n0n 5 INDUE eines 6 Input Fieldszasas REO dere cod eel dd 6 Address Guidelines Tor ATC risa 12 single Line NpUt cisiosoiiosiai E AA 12 OPtONS na a 13 Geocoding OPUONS sica 14 Matching Options Ha 16 Data OPUONS aeina ai AA ANA A NAN 20 Output Data OPIO ii 22 Output ANNA NAA BANA AA SEFERFERERER 22 Address OUMU ANA AA NAAN NANA NAAN AA 22 BE code OUTPUT nun 28 Result CodeS anstehende 28 Geocode Address Global for Africa The Geocode Address Global with the Africa database provides street level geocoding for many African countries It can also determine city or locality centroids as well as postal code centroids for selected countries These African countries are available and licensed as one bundle Enterprise Geocoding Module Data Release Announcements will list and describe the countries included with the Africa database Note South Africa is licensed as a separate database and is not part of the Africa bundle Also Egypt is included with the Middle East bundle not the Africa bundle The Africa database is an optional part of the Enterprise Geocoding Module For more information about Enterprise Geocoding Module including a listing of other components included with it see What is the Enterprise Geocoding Module In this section a QUPUD eenia a
12. address geocoding the number of matching address positions found for the specified address For intersection geocoding the number of matching street intersection positions found for the specified addresses Status Reports the success or failure of the match attempt null Success F Failure Status Code If the geocoder could not process the address this field will show the reason e Internal System Error No Geocode Found e Insufficient Input Data e Multiple Matches Found Exception occurred Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name Status Description LocationPrecision Geocode Africa Description No Match Found Unable to initialize Geocoder Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa If the geocoder could not process the address this field will show a description of the failure Problem explanation Returned when Status Code Internal Geocoding Failed System Error Returned when Status code No Geocode Found No location returned Returned when Status code No Geocode Found No Candidates Returned The geocoder could not identify any candidate matches for the address Multiple Candidates The address resulted in multiple Returned and Keep candidates In order for the candidate Multiple Matches not address to be returned you must select selected the Keep multiple matches option A code describing the precision of the geocode One of the following 0 o oo N O a WO N
13. cription Geocode level Address point interpolation Geographic centroid Postal centroid 14 Specifies how precisely you want to geocode addresses One of the following Street The geocoder attempts to geocode addresses to a street address address but some matches may end up at a less precise location such as a postal code centroid intersection or shape path Postal The majority of African countries and Middle Eastern centroid countries do not include postal code data and therefore do not support postal centroid geocoding If postal code data is available the geocoder attempts to geocode addresses to the most precise postal code it finds The advantage of postal code centroid matching is the speed of the operation The disadvantage of postal code matching is that the geocoder only examines the PostalCode field If you use street address precision the geocoder looks at both the street name and the PostalCode field and attempts to return street level coordinates and optionally fall back to postal code coordinates Geographic The geocoder attempts to geocode addresses to the centroid geographic centroid of a city or state This option is not available for the United Kingdom GBR Specifies whether to perform address point interpolation This option only works if you have a point database installed This option is available for selected countries only Address point interpolation uses point data to refine geocode resu
14. ddress to be considered a close match Use the Close match criteria check boxes to specify the address elements you want Relaxed All candidate addresses are considered a close match Specifies whether candidates must match all non blank input fields to be considered a close match For example if an input address contains a city and postal code then candidates for this address must match the city and postal code to be considered a close match Specifies whether candidates must match the house number to be considered a close match The Africa and Middle East countries do not generally have house numbers in the data source If you select this option you should also require an exact match on street name This option does not significantly affect performance It does however affect the type of match if the candidate address corresponds to a segment that does not contain any ranges The type of match can also be affected when the house number range for a candidate does not 17 Options 18 Option Name Street Locality Description contain the input house number If you relax the house number you should set the maximum ranges to be returned to a value higher than 0 Specifies whether candidates must match the street name to be considered a close match If a close match is found the geocoder attempts expanded street name manipulation which looks for candidates with names that sound like the input address or that are sp
15. e 22 Input Input Geocode Address Global with the Africa database takes an address as input To obtain the best performance and the most possible matches your input address lists should be as complete as possible free of misspellings and incomplete addresses and as close to postal authority standards as possible Most postal authorities have websites that contain information about address standards for their particular country Input Fields To obtain the best performance and the most possible matches your input address lists should be as complete as possible free of misspellings and incomplete addresses and as close to postal authority standards as possible Most postal authorities have websites that contain information about address standards for their particular country The following table lists the input fields used for geocoding locations in Africa Note If you are using the API specify input using the DataTable class The fields described below are the valid column names in the DataTable class For information on the DataTable class see the API Fundamentals section of the Spectrum Technology Platform API Guide Table 1 Input Fields Field Name Description AddressLine1 One of the following The address line containing the street name and building number For example Rua Jose Anchieta Luanda Boulevard Du 28 Novembre Bujumbura Rue 1823 Cotonou Rue 28 263 Ouagadougou Kushimbara Road Gaborone
16. e house number specified in the HouseNumber field takes precedence over any house number specified in the AddressLine1 field The last line of the address Rua Jose Anchieta Luanda Boulevard Du 28 Novembre Bujumbura Rue 1823 Cotonou Rue 28 263 Ouagadougou Kushimbara Road Gaborone Avenue du Docteur Jamot Douala Boulevard Patrice Lumumba Kinshasa Avenue Coutassi Brazzaville Avenue Gabriel Lendoye Libreville Mamleshie Road Accra Taratibu Street Mombasa Avenue Moukhtar Soussi 28630 Ain Harrouda Rue 97 Bamako Avenida 24 De Julho Maputo Rue Ely ould Mohamed Nouakchott Victor Hugo Street Beau Bassin Presidential Way Lilongwe Input Field Name Description Katanga Street Swakopmund Avenue de l Afrique Niamey Limpopo Street Abuja Avenue De La Gendarmerie Kigali Rue GY 501 Dakar Mbangweni Street Mbabane De La Marina Boulevard Lom Rue Aflatoun Ben Arous Kiyungi Street Dar es Salaam Rubaga Road Kampala Freedom Way Kitwe Kirwith Road Bulawayo Locality The meaning of locality varies by country African and Middle East countries do not use a locality or equivalent as part of an address However there is no penalty if state province is used in input address AGO Angola Not used BEN Benin Not used BFA Burkina Faso Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not
17. eet name The type of street when the street type appears before the base street name The street type of the matched location For example AVE for Avenue Street directional that follows the street name The highest unit number of the range in which the unit resides The lowest unit number of the range in which the unit resides 27 Output Geocode Output Table 7 Geocode Output Field Name Description CoordinateSystem The coordinate system used to determine the latitude and longitude coordinates A coordinate system specifies a map projection coordinate units etc An example is EPSG 4326 EPSG stands for European Petroleum Survey Group Seven digit number in degrees and calculated to four decimal places in the format specified Seven digit number in degrees and calculated to four decimal places in the format specified Result Codes 28 Result codes contain information about the success or failure of the geocoding attempt as well as information about the accuracy of the geocode Table 8 Result Code Output Field Name Description Geocoder MatchCode Indicates how closely the input address matches the candidate address IsCloseMatch Indicates whether or not the address is considered a close match An address is considered close based on the Close match criteria options on the Matching tab Y Yes the address is a close match N No the address is not a close match MultiMatchCount For street
18. elled improperly This slows down performance but increases the match rate If the geocoding database is indexed the performance impact is reduced Specifies whether candidates must match the locality or equivalent to be considered a close match The meaning of Locality varies for different countries If you do not require exact matches on locality the geocoder searches on the street address matched to the particular postal code and considers other localities that do not match the name but do match the postal code The majority of African and Middle East countries do not use locality or equivalent as part of an address If a locality is matched it can contribute to a higher candidate ranking but there is no penalty if locality is omitted or unmatched AGO Angola Not used BEN Benin Not used BFA Burkina Faso Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used e COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used GHA Ghana Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used e MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used e MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used SWZ Swaziland Not used TGO Togo Not u
19. f the input includes a state province or locality and that input is matched it does contribute to a higher candidate ranking However there is no penalty if state province or locality is omitted or unmatched Single Line Input 12 Instead of entering each address element in separate fields you may enter the entire address in the AddressLine1 input field For all countries except Japan you can enter addresses in one or more of these single line formats Note Not all formats work may work for every country StreetAddress PostalCode City StreetAddress City PostalCode StreetAddress City StreetAddress City StateProvince PostalCode StreetAddress Locality StreetAddress County City PostalCode StreetAddress PostalCode StreetAddress City City PostalCode StreetAddress Other single line formats may also be acceptable for many countries The matching accuracy for single line input is comparable to that of structured address input The performance of single line input addresses may be slightly slower than that of structured address input Rua JOSE Anchieta Luanda Boulevard Du 28 Novembre Bujumbura Rue 1823 Cotonou Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Rue 28 263 Kushimbara Avenue du Boulevard Avenue Cou Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Ouagadougou Road Gaborone Docteur Jamot Douala Patrice Lumumba Kinshasa tassi Brazzaville Avenue Gabriel Lendoye Librevill Taratibu Street Mombasa
20. horities and suppliers of geographical data Custom databases are databases you create to enhance or augment standard databases for your particular needs The following table lists the options available for specifying which databases to use and the search order of databases Table 4 Default Data Options Option Name Description Database Database preference Override the default database search list Geocode Africa Specifies the database to be used for geocoding Only databases that have been defined in the Databases Resources panel in the Management Console are available Specifies which geocoding databases to use One of the following Prefer custom Use both standard databases and custom database databases but give preference to candidates from custom databases Use this option if you feel your custom database is superior to the standard database Prefer standard Use both standard databases and custom database databases but give preference to candidates from standard databases Use custom Use only custom databases Ignore standard databases only databases Use standard Use only standard databases Ignore custom databases only databases Use both custom and Use both standard databases and custom standard databases databases In cases where candidates are returned from both the standard database is preferred Default The results from a custom database have a U at the end of the result code Results from
21. ies by country For most countries the default is 7 meters The offset distance is used in street level geocoding to prevent the geocode from being in the middle of a street It compensates for the fact that street level geocoding returns a latitude and longitude point in the center of the street where the address is located Since the building represented by an address is not on the street itself you do not want the geocode for an address to be a point on the street Instead you want the geocode to represent the location of the building which sits next to the street For example an offset of 50 feet means that the geocode will represent a point 50 feet back from the center of the street The distance is calculated perpendicular to the portion of the street segment for the address Offset is also used to prevent addresses across the street from each other from being given the same point The following diagram shows an offset point in relation to the original point Offset Ra Original Point Street coordinates are accurate to 1 10 000 of a degree and interpolated points are accurate to the millionths of a degree Specifies the distance to offset the street end points in street level matching The distance is specified in the units you specify in the Units field This value is used to prevent addresses at street corners from being given the same geocode as the intersection Note Offset is not supported for the United Kingdo
22. lding with multiple units such as an apartment building If you choose to return ranges this option specifies the maximum number of ranges to return for each candidate Since the geocoder returns one candidate per segment and since a segment may contain multiple ranges this option allows you to see the other ranges in a candidate s segment If you choose to return ranges this option specifies the maximum number of units for example apartments or suites to return for each range For example if you were to geocode an office building at 65 Main St containing four suites there would be a maximum of four units returned for the building s range 65 Suite 1 65 Suite 2 65 Suite 3 and 65 Suite 4 If you were to specify a maximum number of units as 2 then only two units would be returned instead of all four Specifies whether to return only those geocoded results that are close match candidates For example if there are 10 candidates and two of them are close candidates and you enable this option only the two close matching candidates would be returned instead of all 10 To specify what is considered a close match use the Close match criteria options Address candidates are ranked according to how closely the input address matches these preferences Specifies how to determine whether a candidate is a close match One of the following Custom This option allows you to specify which parts of a candidate address must match the input a
23. lts By default the geocoding process estimates the location of an address based on the street numbers at either end of street segment For example if a street segment runs from 100 Main St to 200 Main St then a request for 150 Main St will return a location in the middle of the segment With interpolation the geocoder finds the position of 180 Main St in the point data and it is about two thirds of the way down the street Using this information the geocoder can estimate the position of 150 Main St based on 100 and 180 Main St In this case the geocoder estimates the location of the address slightly away from the center of the segment Specifies whether to attempt to determine a geographic region centroid when an address level geocode cannot be determined This option is not available for the United Kingdom GBR Specifies whether to attempt to determine a postal code centroid when an address level geocode cannot be determined Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Option Name Offset from street Offset from corner Geocode Africa Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description The majority of African countries and Middle Eastern countries do not include postal code data and therefore do not support postal centroid geocoding Indicates the offset distance from the street segments to use in street level geocoding The distance is specified in the units you specify in the Units field The default value var
24. m GBR or Japan JPN The default value varies by country 12 meters Australia AUS Austria AUT Germany DEU 7 meters For other supported countries the default offset is 7 meters The following diagram compares the end points of a street to offset end points 15 Options Option Name Coordinate system Matching Options 16 Description Street Segment End With Corner Offset Street Segment End Specifies the unit of measurement for the street offset and corner offset options One of the following Note Offset is not supported for the United Kingdom GBR or Japan JPN Feet e Miles Meters Kilometers The default is Meters A coordinate system is a reference system for the unique location of a point in space Cartesian planar and Geodetic geographical coordinates are examples of reference systems based on Euclidean geometry Spectrum Technology Platform supports systems recognized by the European Petroleum Survey Group EPSG Each country supports different coordinate systems Depending on the country you have one or more of the following options Matching options let you set match restrictions fallback and multiple match settings so thatthe matching can be as strict or relaxed as you need The strictest matching conditions require an exact match on house number street name postal code and no fallback to postal code centroids The geocoder looks
25. match on postal codes the geocoder searches a wider area for a match While this results in slower performance the match rate is higher because the request does not need to match exactly when it compares match candidates You may want to use a balanced strategy between match rate and geographic precision That is you may want to geocode as many records as possible automatically but at the same time want to minimize the number of weaker matches false positives For example false positives can occur when the geocoder finds a street that sounds like the input street finds the same street in another city if postal code match is not required finds the street but with a different house number if house number is not required The following settings may achieve a good balance between match rate and precision e Close matches only Select this option Close match criteria Select House number and Street only Postal centroid Do not select this fallback level Data Options The Data tab allows you to specify which databases to use in geocoding Databases contain the address and geocode data necessary to determine the geocode for a given address There are two kinds of databases standard databases and custom databases Standard databases are those supplied by 20 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Pitney Bowes Software and based on address and geocoding data from postal aut
26. more than one database list them in order of preference The order of the databases has an effect when there are close match candidates from different databases The close matches that are returned come from the database that is first in the search list Close matches from lower ranked databases are demoted to non close matches You can also use the order of the databases to perform fallback processing if you have an both an address point database and a street level database installed for the country List the address point database first and the street database second If the address cannot be geocoded to the address point level the geocoder will attempt to geocode it to the street level Output Data Options The following table lists the options that control which data is returned in the output Table 5 Output Data Options Option Name Description Return only similar firm names This option applies to the U K only Specifies whether to return firm names only when the input firm name is similar to the firm name in the geocoding database For example if the input firm name is Pitney Bowes Business Insight but the geocoding database returns Pitney Bowes Software Inc these two firm names are not similar In most cases the input firm name must match the firm name in the database exactly Some differences in abbreviations are considered similar enough to result in the firm name being returned Output The geocoder retur
27. nge is located One of the following 0 It is not known which side of the street the range is located on 1 The range is on the left side of the street 2 The range is on the right side of the street Geocode Africa 25 Output 26 Field Name SegmentCode SegmentParity StateProvince Description HouseNumberParity Indicates whether the range contains odd or even address numbers One of the following 0 The range contains both odd and even address numbers 1 The range contains odd address numbers 2 The range contains even address numbers 1 It is not known whether the range contains odd or even house numbers TotalRangeUnitsReturned The number of unit ranges returned for the RangeUnits address A unit is an address within a building such as an apartment or suite A list of the ranges of units within the building An example of units are apartments or suites Address This is a list filed that contains sub fields for any address elements AddressLine1 City and so on that are different from the candidate s address UnitNumberHigh The highest unit number UnitNumberLow The lowest unit number A unique ID that identifies Indicates which side of the street has odd numbers L R B U Left side of the street Right side of the street Both sides of the street Undetermined The meaning of State Province varies by country African and Middle East countries do not use a s
28. ns the latitude longitude standardized address and result indicators Result indicators describe how well the geocoder matched the input address to a known address and assigned a location they also describe the overall status of a match attempt If you are using the API t of the Spectrum Technology Platform API Guide Address Output The address may be identical to the input address if the input address was accurate or it may be a standardized version of the input address or it may be a candidate address when multiple matches are found 22 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Table 6 Address Output Field Name Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description AddressLine1 AddressLine2 ApartmentLabel ApartmentNumber City Country County FirmName HouseNumber Geocode Africa First line of the address Second line of the address The type of unit such as apartment suite or lot Unit number The name The three letter ISO 3166 1 Alpha 3 country code The meaning of county varies by country AGO Angola Not used BDI Burundi Not used BEN Benin Not used BFA Burkina Faso Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used GHA Ghana Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used MLI Mali Not used
29. number of units to return for each range use the Maximum units per range option PostalCode The postcode for the address The format of the postcode varies by country Postcode data is not available for every country PostalCode Addon The second part of a postcode This field is not used by most countries PreAddress Miscellaneous information that appears before the street name PrivateMailbox This field is not currently used Ranges This is a list field containing the address ranges that exist on the street segment where the candidate address is located A range is a series of addresses along a street segment For example 5400 5499 Main St is an address range representing addresses in the 5400 block of Main St A range may represent just odd or even addresses within a segment or both odd and even addresses A range may also represent a single building with multiple units such as an apartment building The Ranges field contains the following sub fields Address This is a list filed that contains sub fields for any address elements AddressLine1 City and so on that are different from the candidate s address AdditionalFields A listing of country specific information related to the address The information contained in AdditionalFields varies by country HouseNumberHigh The highest address number for the range HouseNumberLow The lowest address number for the range SegmentParity Indicates the side of the street where the ra
30. s USPS Notices Pitney Bowes Inc holds a non exclusive license to publish and sell ZIP 4 databases on optical and magnetic media The following trademarks are owned by the United States Postal Service CASS CASS Certified DPV eLOT FASTforward First Class Mail Intelligent Mail LACS NCOA PAVE PLANET Code Postal Service POSTNET Post Office RDI Suite United States Postal Service Standard Mail United States Post Office USPS ZIP Code and ZIP 4 This list is not exhaustive of the trademarks belonging to the Postal Service Pitney Bowes Inc is a non exclusive licensee of USPS for NCOAL 0 processing Prices for Pitney Bowes Software s products options and services are not established controlled or approved by USPS or United States Government When utilizing RDI data to determine parcel shipping costs the business decision on which parcel delivery company to use is not made by the USPS or United States Government Data Provider and Related Notices Data Products contained on this media and used within Pitney Bowes Software applications are protected by various trademarks and by one or more of the following copyrights O Copyright United States Postal Service All rights reserved O 2013 TomTom All rights reserved TomTom and the TomTom logo are registered trademarks of TomTom N V Copyright NAVTEQ All rights reserved Data 2013 NAVTEQ North America LLC Fuente INEGI Instituto Nacional de Es
31. sed TUN Tunisia Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Option Name Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description City County State Province Geocode Africa Specifies whether candidates must match the city to be considered a close match For Japan this field specifies whether the candidate must match the municipality subdivision oaza If you do not require exact matches on city the geocoder searches on the street address matched to the particular postal code and considers other cities that do not match the name but do match the postal code Specifies whether candidates must match the county or equivalent to be considered a close match The meaning of county varies for different countries AGO Angola Not used BDI Burundi Not used BEN Benin Not used BFA Burkina Faso Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used GHA Ghana Not used KEN Kenya Not used e LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used e MRT Mauritania Not used e MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda
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33. tad stica y Geograf a Based upon electronic data O National Land Survey Sweden O Copyright United States Census Bureau O Copyright Nova Marketing Group Inc Portions of this program are O Copyright 1993 2007 by Nova Marketing Group Inc All Rights Reserved O Copyright Canada Post Corporation This CD ROM contains data from a compilation in which Canada Post Corporation is the copyright owner O 2007 Claritas Inc The Geocode Address World data set contains data licensed from the GeoNames Project www geonames org provided under the Creative Commons Attribution License Attribution License located at http creativecommons org licenses by 3 0 legalcode Your use of the GeoNames data described in the Spectrum Technology Platform User Manual is governed by the terms of the Attribution License and any conflict between your agreement with Pitney Bowes Software Inc and the Attribution License will be resolved in favor of the Attribution License solely as it relates to your use of the GeoNames data ICU Notices Copyright 1995 2011 International Business Machines Corporation and others All rights reserved Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute and or sell copies of the Software and to permi
34. tate province or equivalent as part of an address However there is no penalty if state province is used in input address AGO Angola Not used BEN Benin Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name StreetDataType StreetName StreetPrefix StreetSuffix TrailingDirectional UnitNumberHigh UnitNumberLow Geocode Africa Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used MUS Mauritius Not used MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used SWZ Swaziland Not used TGO Togo Not used TUN Tunisia Not used TZA Tanzania Not used UGA Uganda Not used ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used The default search order rank of the database used to geocode the address A value of 1 indicates that the database is first in the default search order 2 indicates that the database is second in the default search order and so on The default database search order is specified in the Management Console with the Database Resources tool For most countries this contains the str
35. used COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used GHA Ghana Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used MLI Mali Not used MOZ Mozambique Not used MRT Mauritania Not used 10 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name PostalCode StateProvince Geocode Africa Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global for Africa Description MUS Mauritius Not used e MWI Malawi Not used NAM Namibia Not used NER Niger Not used e NGA Nigeria Not used RWA Rwanda Not used SEN Senegal Not used SWZ Swaziland Not used TGO Togo Not used e TUN Tunisia Not used e UGA Uganda Not used e ZMB Zambia Not used ZWE Zimbabwe Not used The postal code in the appropriate format for the country African and Middle East countries generally do not have postal code data The meaning of State Province varies by country African and Middle East countries do not use a state province or equivalent as part of an address However there is no penalty if state province is used in input address AGO Angola Not used BEN Benin Not used BWA Botswana Not used CMR Cameroon Not used COD Congo Democratic Republic of Not used e COG Congo Not used GAB Gabon Not used KEN Kenya Not used LSO Lesotho Not used MAR Morocco Not used e MLI Mali Not used MOZ
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