Overview

Accurate Geocoding

Convert individual or collections of addresses to location coordinates and vice versa. The Geocode API returns latitude & longitude coordinates with the input of an address or PreciselyID and vice versa. Useful for enhancing & enriching your customer addresses.

Geocode API is available for over 140 countries. It contains these four methods:

The Geocode API provides these services:

These levels of Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding are available:

Basic - This method will geocode and reverse geocode to a Postal or Geographic level.
  • Postal Geocoding:
    The Basic method can geocode and reverse geocode to a postal centroid if postcode information is available from the country. See World Geocoder (XWG) - Countries and Datasets Supported for Basic Geocode for a summary of countries and postal data coverage. Depending on the country, postal geocoding may provide more accurate results that geographic geocoding. Postal level geocoding is possible if these conditions are met:
    • Your input address consists of a valid postcode.
    • The data source contains postcode information for the country. Not every country has postcode data.
  • Geographic Geocoding:
    The Basic method can geocode and reverse geocode to the centroid of an administrative division (such as town or village). See Country Geographic Data Coverage for a summary of countries and geographic data coverage. This can geocode to the geographic level if these conditions are met:
    • Your input addresses contains accurate geographic information without valid postcode address content in the input. If the address in question includes valid postcode input, then this will attempt postal geocoding.
    • The data source contains geographic level information for the country. Geographic information can come from any of the data sources (TomTom, GeoNames, etc.,).

Advanced - This method will geocode and reverse geocode to an Address or Street level. Advanced method sits in between Basic and Premium methods. The accuracy and number of address/street level matches could be less than what Premium method offers. If, for an address, Address/Street match cannot be found, geocoding will fall back to Postal/Geography level. See Supported Countries section for a summary of supported countries for Advanced geocoding.

Premium - Premium method offers highest accuracy and has the best datasets configured for geocoding. This method will geocode and reverse geocode to an Address or Street level. It geocodes from most accurate address or street information to least accurate address or street information. If this information is not available it geocodes at Postal level and Geographic level. See Supported Countries section for a summary of supported countries for premium geocoding.