What's New

Updated Datasets and Bundles

New Datasets

Updated Bundles

For a list of all available datasets, see Datasets By Country.

Alternate language support

To enable this feature, set the custom preference RETURN_ALT_LANG_FIELDS to "true" in the Operational Addressing SDK or Spectrum Global Geocoding.

All Geocoders: New custom preference option

In this quarter, we have introduced a new custom preference option "RETURN_INPUT_HOUSE_ON_S4_MATCH" to not populate the House Number in the street centroid matches. Example, for the input as "123 Main Street", if the data contains only "Main Street" with no house information, then this option returns just "Main Street" without appending the house number.

To enable this feature, set the custom preference RETURN_INPUT_HOUSE_ON_S4_MATCH to "false" in the Operational Addressing SDK or Spectrum Global Geocoding.

Postal and geographic candidates return additional fields

In previous quarters, we enhanced postal and geographic geocoding to include more region, city, and postcode hierarchical information. This quarter, the enhancement now applies to Brunei Darussalam (BRN), Cyprus (CYP), Kosovo (XKX), Lesotho (LSO), Malta (MLT), Mozambique (MOZ), Senegal (SEN), Eswatini (SWZ), Tanzania (TZA). The information below is repeated for convenience; no functionality has changed from previous quarters.

Postal candidates (2 additional fields):

• MULTIPLE_AREAS_FOR_POSTCODE, true if more than one town is contained within the postcode.

• PRIMARY_AREA_FOR_POSTCODE, true if the current town is the primary town for the postcode. The area name fields (city/town, state/region, etc.) will be populated when available.

Geographic candidates (1 additional field):

• POSTCODE_COUNT_IN_AREA, containing the number of postcodes found in the specified town. (As we noted previously, this would only apply to G3-level candidates, except in Brazil where it only applies to G4-level candidates.) The postcode field will be populated when available.

Brazil (BRA): Support for street centroid fallback

In this quarter, we have added a new custom geocoding preference, FALLBACK_TO_STREET_CENTROID which returns the street centroid level match (S4) when set to true for input with no matching house number. The default value for this preference is false.

This centroid is the section of the street containing the closest house number for the input. It can have a different point than when you do not provide a house number in the input.

The closest house for the given input is returned in the custom field on the candidate “CLOSEST_HOUSE_NUMBER”.

For example, the input of “Calle Major 123” will now return the "Calle Major" with precision of S4 along with the “CLOSEST_HOUSE_NUMBER” candidate for “78”, if the closest house number in the data is "78"

South Africa (ZAF): Geocoding improvements

The geocoder has improved matching logic. Also, provided better support for Afrikaans words in the input. Additionally, provides better intersection handling by including words such as "AND", "EN", and "CNR" as intersection indicators.

Ireland (IRL): Formatted street address update

The geocoder now returns the correct format for Ireland street address.

Great Britain (GBR): Dataset updates

Kazakhstan (KAZ), Azerbaijan (AZE): Support for new country development

The geocoder for Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan now supports Street Geocoding. Also, it supports English and Russian languages.

The highest street precision level for both the countries is Street Interpolated.

India (IN): New dataset inclusion in geocoding and interactive geocoding

In this quarter, we have introduced new dataset IN2 which replaces IN1 in both geocoding and interactive geocoding.