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1. If the address cannot be geocoded to the address point level the geocoder will attempt to geocode it to the street level Related Links Geocode Address Global on page 3 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 This option applies to the U K only nen 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 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 returns 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 14 Address Output Geocode Address Global The address may be identical to the input address if the input address was accurate or it may be a standardized2. 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 EPSG 4230 Subset of WGS84 EPSG 4326 Also known as the WGS84 coordinate system Table 11 Matching Options for Uruguay Option Name Keep multiple matches Data Options Description Specifies whether to return results when the coordinates match to multiple candidate addresses in the database If this option is not selected coordinates that results in multiple address candidates will fail to geocode If you select this option specify the maximum number of candidates to return next to the check box The Data tab allows you to specify which databases to use in reverse geocoding Databases contain the address and geocode data necessary to determine the address for a given point The following table lists the options available for specifying the search order of databases Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 24 Reverse Geocode Address Global Table 12 Data Options for Uruguay Option Name Description Override the default Specifies whether to use the database search list specified in the database search list 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 chan
3. or equivalent to be considered a close match The meaning of Locality varies for different countries e URY Uruguay Locality 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 e URY Uruguay Not used State Province Specifies whether candidates must match the state or province or equivalent to be considered a close match URY Uruguay Department Postal code This field is not used in this country Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 11 Geocode Address Global 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 e finds a street that sounds like the input street e finds the same street in another city if postal code match is not required e find
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5. whether the range contains odd or even house numbers The number of unit ranges returned for the 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 17 Field Name Geocode Address Global Description SegmentCode SegmentParity StateProvince StreetDataType StreetName StreetPrefix StreetSuffix TrailingDirectional UnitNumberHigh UnitNumberLow Return Parsed Address 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 Left side of the street R Right side of the street B Both sides of the street U Undetermined The meaning of State Province varies by country e URY Uruguay Department 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
6. For most countries this contains the street name The type of street when the street type appears before the base street name The type of street when the street type appears after the base street name 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 The formatted input address can be returned along with a separate returned field for each input address element Parsed Address Input elements are returned in separately labeled fields names with a Input Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 18 Geocode Address Global Field Name Description extension See the Return Parsed Address Geocoding Option for more information Geocode Output Table 7 Geocode Output for Uruguay 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 Result codes contain information about the success or failure of the geocoding attempt as well as information about the accuracy
7. Matching options let you set match restrictions fallback and multiple match settings so that the 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 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 Matching Options for Uruguay 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 9 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description 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 Return ranges 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 t
8. Table class For information on the DataTable class see the API Fundamentals section of the Spectrum Technology Platform API Guide Table 1 Input Fields for Uruguay Field Name Description AddressLine1 One of the following e The address line containing the street name and building number For example Calle Ing Juan Alberto Capurro 997 Montevideo e This field can also contain the full address For more information see Single Line Input on page 6 e For all countries except Argentina Great Britain and Japan this field can contain a street intersection To specify a street intersection use double ampersand amp amp to separate the streets For more information see Street Intersection Input on page 7 AddressLine2 This field is not used in this country Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 4 Field Name FirmName HouseNumber Locality PostalCode StateProvince Address Input Guidelines Geocode Address Global Description The city or town name Your input address should use the official city name The meaning of county varies by country e URY Uruguay Not used This field is not used in this country 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 The house number specified in the HouseNumber field takes preced
9. de 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 LocationPrecision A code describing the precision of the geocode One of the following 0 No coordinate information is available for this candidate address Interpolated street address Street segment midpoint Postal code 1 centroid kh OQ N Partial postal code 2 centroid Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 20 Geocode Address Global Field Name Description Postal code 2 centroid Intersection Point of interest This is a placeholder value Spectrum databases do not have POI data so it is not possible to get this return 8 State province centroid 9 County centroid 10 City centroid 11 Locality centroid 12 15 For most countries LocationPrecision codes LocationPrecision 12 through 15 are reserved for unspecified codes custom items 13 Additional point precision for unspecified custom item 14 Additional point precision for unspecified custom item 15 Additional point precision for unspecified custom item 16 The result is an address point 17 The result was generated by using address point data to modify the candidates segment data The result is an add
10. e Enterprise Designer and Interactive Driver In this section Input 23 Options 23 Output 26 Reverse Geocode Address Global Input Reverse Geocode Address Global takes longitude and latitude as input Table 9 Reverse Geocode Global Input Field Name Format Description The latitude of the point for which you want address information The longitude of the point for which you want address information One of the following e The name of the country in English The two character ISO 3116 1 alpha 2 country code The three character ISO 3116 1 alpha 3 country code Options Geocoding Options Table 10 Geocoding Options for Uruguay Option Name Description Search distance The radius from the input coordinates in which to search for an address Street segments and points within the radius are considered The default search radius is 150 meters and the maximum search radius is 1600 meters Units The units in which the search distance is specified One of the following Feet Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 23 Option Name Coordinate system Matching Options Reverse Geocode Address Global Description e Miles e Meters e Kilometers 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
11. e match was made Example reverse geocoding codes Table 17 Reverse Geocoding R Result Codes Reverse Geocoding Code Description Point parcel level precision for reverse geocoding Candidate returned from address dictionary Interpolated street candidate for reverse geocoding Candidate returned from address dictionary Street centroid candidate for reverse geocoding Candidate returned from address dictionary Non match Codes The following result codes indicate no match was made e N No close match e NX No close match for street intersections Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 33 Result Codes for International Geocoding e ND Spectrum Technology Platform could not find the geocoding database for the given postal code or municipality state province Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 34 Notices Copyright 2015 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 holders 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 Laca NCoaH K PAVE PLANET Code Postal Service
12. earch 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 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 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 13 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description street level database installed for the country List the address point database first and the street database second
13. ence over any house number specified in the AddressLine1 field The last line of the address e Calle Ing Juan Alberto Capurro 997 Montevideo The meaning of locality varies by country e URY Uruguay Locality The postal code in the appropriate format for the country This field is not used in this country The meaning of State Province varies by country URY Uruguay Department Follow these suggestions to ensure that your street input data is in the best format possible for optimal geocoding Address Guidelines for Uruguay Follow these guidelines to provide input that Geocode Address Global can successfully geocode For additional information on Uruguayan addresses see the Uruguay Postal Service website http www correo com uy index asp Required fields Addresses must contain a city URY does not consider postal codes in addresses Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay Geocode Address Global Thoroughfare types Thoroughfare types and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported on input and output e 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 not available with Uruguay Single Line Input Instead of entering each address element in separate fields you may enter the entire addr
14. ess 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 Where e StreetAddress can be house number and street name in either order with street type immediately before or after the street name e City is the city or town Note Not all of these address elements are used in every country 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 For best results use delimiters comma semicolon or colon between each address element For example Calle Dr Teofilo Diaz Col n Centro y Noroeste Montevideo Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 6 Geocode Address Global If the input address is missing delimiters spaces are recognized as separators and internal parsing rules identify address elements In the example above the address would still successfully geocode even if some o
15. field This feature can help you understand how the input address was parsed and identify specific input elements that could not be geocoded For example a returned HouseNumber nput could contain an invalid house number in your input address Note Data vintage must be 2014 Q4 or newer to get Parsed Address Input returns Also note that Parsed Address Input elements are not returned for every country Parsed Address Input elements are returned in separately labeled fields names with a Input extension For example FormattedInputStreet Input e City nput e Country Input Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay Geocode Address Global Option Name Description HouseNumber Input Locality Input PostalCode Base Input StreetName nput e StreetSuffix Input Other labeled fields are possible depending on the input address country and data source Note Parsed Address Input elements are not returned for every country Also because Geocode Address World geocodes to the geographic or postal level only not street address this does not return Parsed Address Input For many countries if part of the input address could not be recognized as a specific address element this content is returned in UnparsedWords Input For intersection addresses the first entered street is returned in StreetName Input and the second entered street name is returned in IntersectionStreet2 Input Matching Options
16. g Result Codes S Codes 30 Interpreting S Result Codes 31 International Postal Geocoding Result Codes Z Codes 32 International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G Codes 32 Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes 33 Non match Codes 33 Result Codes for International Geocoding International Street Geocoding Result Codes S Codes Street level geocoded candidates return a result code beginning with the letter S The second character in the code indicates the positional accuracy of the resulting point for the geocoded record Table 14 Street S Result Codes S Result Code Description Single close match with the point located at postal code centroid Single close match with the point located at postal code centroid Single close match with the point located at the street centroid For databases vintage 2014 Q4 or newer the input house number is returned with the candidate even if no such house number was found The S4 code is followed by letters and dashes indicating match precision See Interpreting S Result Codes on page 31 Single close match with the point located at a street address position The S5 code is followed by letters and dashes indicating match precision For information about these letters see Interpreting S Result Codes on page 31 Single match with the point located at an interpolated point along the candidate s street segment When the potential candidate is not an address point candidate and there are no exact ho
17. ge 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 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 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 databa
18. he 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 Maximum ranges per If you choose to return ranges this option specifies the maximum candidate 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 Maximum units per range 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 Close matches only 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 closel
19. mpilation in which Canada Post Corporation is the copyright owner 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 36 Copyright 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 permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so provided that the above copyright notice s and this permission notice appear in all copies of the Software and that both the above copyright notice s and this permission notice appear in supporti
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21. of the geocode Table 8 Result Code Output for Uruguay 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 address geocoding the number of matching address positions found for the specified address Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 19 Geocode Address Global Field Name Description 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 e Exception occurred e Unable to initialize Geocoder No Match Found Status Description If the geocoder could not process the address this field will show a description of the failure Problem explanation Returned when Status Code Internal System Error Geocoding Failed Returned when Status Code No Geocode Found No location returned Returned when Status Code No Geoco
22. pitney bowes Spectrum Technology Platform Version 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay Table of Contents 1 Geocode Address Global Input 4 Options 7 Output 14 2 Reverse Geocode Address Global Input 23 Options 23 Output 26 3 Result Codes for International Geocoding International Street Geocoding Result Codes S Codes 30 Interpreting S Result Codes 31 International Postal Geocoding Result Codes Z Codes 32 International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G Codes 32 Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes 33 Non match Codes 33 Geocode Address Global provides street level geocoding for many countries It can also determine city or locality centroids as well as postal code centroids Geocode Address Global handles street addresses in the native language and format For example a typical French formatted address might have a street name of Rue des Remparts A typical German formatted address could have a street name Bahnhofstrasse Note Geocode Address Global does not support U S or U K addresses To geocode U S addresses use Geocode US Address To geocode U K addresses use Geocode Address GBR The countries available to you depends on which country databases you have installed For example if you have databases for Canada Italy and Australia installed Geocode Address Global would be able to geocode addresses in these countries in a single stage Before you can work with Geocode Address Global
23. r all of the delimiters were missing in the input Punctuation is ignored for geocoding purposes Guidelines for Single Line Input e 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 e Firm information placename building name or government building is returned if available Street Intersection Input If you enter a street intersection as input the geocoder will provide the coordinates of the intersection To enter an intersection specify the two street names separated by a double ampersand amp amp in AddressLine1 For some countries the word AND can also be used to delimit intersections The amp amp delimiter can be used for all countries For example AddressLine1 Avenida Luis A De Herrera amp amp Calle Galatea City Montevideo Note The double ampersand amp amp can always be used as an street intersection separator For some countries you can use additional symbols or words to delimit street intersections All close match criteria are enforced for intersection geocoding just as for any street level geocoding Options Geocoding Options The following table lists the options that control how a location s coordinates are determined Table 2 Geocoding Options for Uruguay Option Name Descrip
24. r language code is returned Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 26 Field Name Reverse Geocode Address Global Description LastLine LeadingDirectional Locality NumberOfCandidateRanges NumberOfRangeUnits PostalCode PostalCode Addon PreAddress PrivateMailbox SegmentCode SegmentParity StateProvince StreetDataType 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 e URY Uruguay Locality 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 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 number of units to return for each range use the Maximum units per range option The postcode for the address The format of the postcode varies by country Postcode data is not available for every country The second part of a postcode This field is not used by most countries Miscellaneous information that appears before the street name This field is not currently used A unique ID that identifies Indicates which side of the street has odd number
25. ress point that was projected using the centerline offset feature You must have both a point and a street range database to use the centerline offset feature and thereby return LocationPrecision 18 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 21 Reverse Geocode Address Global determines the address for a given latitude longitude point Reverse Geocode Address Global can determine addresses in many countries The countries available to you depends on which country databases you have installed For example if you have databases for Canada Italy and Australia installed Reverse Geocode Address Global would be able to geocode addresses in these countries in a single stage Note Reverse Geocode Address Global does not support U S addresses To geocode U S addresses use Reverse Geocode US Location Before you can work with Reverse Geocode Address Global you must define a global database resource containing a database for one or more countries Once you create the database resource a Reverse Geocode Address Global will become available in the Management Consol
26. roid with the following possible accuracy levels e There is no street level close match and you specified to fall back to postal code centroid Table 15 Postal Z Result Codes Z Result Code Description Postal Code centroid match Full postal code centroid match For Canada this is an FSALDU centroid Postal level geocoded candidates return a result code beginning with the letter Z Uruguay can generate a Z1 result code Country specific geocoders can often generate more accurate postcode results with Z2 or Z3 result codes International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G Codes Geographic level geocoded candidates return a result code beginning with the letter G The numbers following the G in the result code provides more detailed information on the accuracy of the candidate Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 32 Result Codes for International Geocoding Table 16 Geographic G Result Codes G Result Code Description State or province centroid match County district or region centroid match City or town municipality centroid match Locality village suburb or neighborhood centroid match Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes Matches in the R category indicate that the record was matched by reverse geocoding The second two characters of the R result code indicate the type of match found R geocode results include an additional letter to indicate the dictionary from which th
27. s L Left side of the street R Right side of the street B Both sides of the street U Undetermined The meaning of State Province varies by country URY Uruguay Department 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 27 Reverse Geocode Address Global Field Name Description The default database search order is specified in the Management Console with the Database Resources tool StreetName For most countries this contains the street name StreetPrefix The type of street when the street type appears before the base street name StreetSuffix The type of street when the street type appears after the base street name TrailingDirectional Street directional that follows the street name UnitNumberHigh The highest unit number of the range in which the unit resides UnitNumberLow The lowest unit number of the range in which the unit resides Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 28 Candidates returned by Spectrum geocoders return another class of return codes that are referred to as International Geocoding Result Codes Each attempted match returns a result code in the Geocoder MatchCode output field International Street Geocodin
28. s 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 e Close match criteria Select House number and Street only e 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 Pitney Bowes and based on address and geocoding data from postal authorities 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 Data Options for Uruguay Option Name Description Database 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 Database preference 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 cus
29. se 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 25 Output Reverse Geocode Address Global Table 13 Reverse Geocode Address Global Output Fields Field Name Description AddressLine1 AddressLine2 ApartmentLabel ApartmentNumber City County Distance FirmName Geocoder MatchCode HouseNumber HouseNumberHigh HouseNumberLow HouseNumberParity Language Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 First line of the address Second line of the address The type of unit such as apartment suite or lot Unit number The municipality name The meaning of county varies by country e URY Uruguay Not used The distance from input location in meters If the input coordinates are an exact match for the address the value is 0 Name of the company or a place name Indicates how closely the input coordinates match the candidate address For more information see Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes on page 33 The number for the matched location 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 O Odd B Both U Unknown For reverse geocoded candidates the two characte
30. se geocoded candidates the two character language code is returned LastLine Complete last address line city state province and postal code LeadingDirectional Street directional that precedes the street name For example the N in 138 N Main Street Locality The meaning of locality varies by country e URY Uruguay Locality 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 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 addre
31. ss 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 16 Field Name Description AdditionalFields HouseNumberHigh HouseNumberLow SegmentParity HouseNumberParity TotalRangeUnitsReturned RangeUnits Geocode Address Global City and so on that are different from the candidate s address A listing of country specific information related to the address The information contained in AdditionalFields varies by country The highest address number for the range The lowest address number for the range Indicates the side of the street where the range 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 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 Itis not Known
32. the Street Range Address database This record would be geocoded at the street address position of the match candidate Description Example H House number 18 P Street prefix direction North P is present if any of these conditions are satisfied The candidate pre directional matches the input pre directional The candidate post directional matches the input pre directional after pre and post directionals are swapped The input does not have a pre directional N Street name Merivale T Street type St S Street suffix direction W S in result code is present if any of these conditions are satisfied e The candidate post directional matches the input post directional The candidate pre directional matches the input post directional after pre and post directionals are swapped The input does not have a post directional C City name South Brisbane Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 31 Result Codes for International Geocoding Description Example Postal code Database type used to obtain the match e A Street Range Address database e U Customer user defined database International Postal Geocoding Result Codes Z Codes Matches in the Z category indicate that a match was made at the postcode level A postcode match is returned in either of these cases e You specified to match to postal code centroids The resulting point is located at the postal code cent
33. tion Geocode level Specifies how precisely you want to geocode addresses One of the following Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay Option Name Geocode Address Global Description Address point interpolation Geographic centroid Postal centroid Coordinate system Return Parsed Address Street address The geocoder attempts to geocode addresses to a street address but some matches may end up at a less precise location such as a postal code centroid intersection or shape path Postal centroid This option is not available for this country Geographic The geocoder attempts to geocode addresses centroid to the geographic centroid of a city or state Specifies whether to attempt to determine a geographic region centroid when an address level geocode cannot be determined 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 EPSG 4230 Subset of WGS84 EPSG 4326 Also known as the WGS84 coordinate system Specifies whether to return the formatted input street address and each input address element in a separate
34. tom 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 Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 12 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description 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 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 SOSHPNTSCZU comes from a custom database For more information see Result Codes for International Geocoding on page 29 Override the default Specifies whether to use the database search list specified in the database search list 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 s
35. use number matches among other address point candidates the S7 result is returned using address point interpolation The point is interpolated according to the next highest or lowest address point candidate that both intersects the segment and whose house number is contained within the range of houses of the original candidate By using known address reference points on the street segment the S7 point can be adjusted to a more accurate position Single close match with the point located at either the single point associated with an address point candidate or at an address point candidate that shares the same house number No interpolation is required S8 returns are possible with point databases only Single close match with the point located at street intersection Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 30 Result Codes for International Geocoding Interpreting S Result Codes For S street geocoded international result codes eight additional characters describe how closely the address matches an address in the database The characters appear in the order listed in the following table Any non matched address elements are represented by a dash For example the result code S5 N SCZA represents a single close match that matched the street name street suffix direction town and postcode The dashes indicate that there was no match on house number street prefix direction or thoroughfare type The match came from
36. version of the input address or it may be a candidate address when multiple matches are found Table 6 Address Output for Uruguay Field Name Description AddressLine1 AddressLine2 ApartmentLabel ApartmentNumber City Country County FirmName HouseNumber HouseNumberHigh HouseNumberLow HouseNumberParity First line of the address Second line of the address The type of unit such as apartment suite or lot Unit number The municipality name The three letter ISO 3166 1 Alpha 3 country code For Uruguay the country code is URY Addresses for countries that do not have a dedicated geocoding stage return the country code associated with the input address For example Vatican City addresses return VAT in the Country field regardless of whether VAT or ITA Italy was passed as the country code Similarly addresses in Martinique return MTQ rather than FRA in the Country field The meaning of county varies by country e URY Uruguay Not used Name of the company or a place name The number for the matched location 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 O Odd B Both Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 15 Geocode Address Global Field Name Description U Unknown Language For rever
37. y the input address matches these preferences Match mode 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 address to be considered a close match Use the Close match criteria check boxes to specify the address elements you want Spectrum Technology Platform 10 0 Geocoding Guide for Uruguay 10 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description 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 House number 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 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 Specifies whether candidates must match the locality
38. you must define a global database resource containing a database for one or more countries Once you create the database resource a Geocode Address Global will become available in the Management Console Enterprise Designer and Interactive Driver Geocode Address Global is an optional component of the Enterprise Geocoding Module Input 4 Options 7 Output 14 Geocode Address Global Input Geocode Address Global takes an address or intersection 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 For Uruguay Geocode Address Global takes an address or intersection 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 The following table lists the input fields used for geocoding locations in Uruguay Note If you are using the API specify input using the DataTable class The fields described below are the valid column names in the Data
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