Address Guidelines for Sweden
The Enterprise Geocoding Module offers several SWE databases including the NAVTEQ street and point databases. Contact your sales representative for more information about licensing these databases. Your Enterprise Geocoding Module database release notes identify the current database vintages.
Follow these guidelines to provide input that GeocodeAddressGlobal can successfully geocode. For additional information about Sweden addresses, see the Post Norden website: http://www.posten.se/.
- Required fields—Addresses must contain either a city or a postal code.
- Thoroughfare types—Thoroughfare types and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported on input and output. Following is a list of some recognized thoroughfare types. This is a partial list, and other thoroughfare types are also recognized.
ALLE, ALLÉ, BACKE, BULEVARDI, BULEVARD
DALLEN, ESPLANADI, GATAN, GATTAN, GATA
GATE, GATEN, GRANDEN, GRAND, GRÄND
GÅRD, GARD, KATU, KUJA, LERIG
LIDEN, PARKEN, PARK, PLAN, PORTTI
PROMENADEN, PROMENADER, RACE, RÅDE, RADE
RINNE, STIGEN, STIG, STRAND, SKOG
TIE, TORG, VAG, VAGEN, VÄGEN
VÄG, VAGAN, VÄGAN - Common words and abbreviations—The geocoder recognizes common words, directionals, house number indicators, and abbreviations used in addresses and can geocode these addresses successfully. Following is a list of some common words that are recognized. This is a partial list, and other common words and abbreviations are also recognized.
andra, at, åt, av, bak, bakom, de, del
den, dens, emellan, en, for, för, fore, för
framfor, framföre, framme, fran, från, gamla, gammal, gammalt
i, in, infor, införe, intill, kort, lang, lång
liten, litens, med, mellan, motliggande, narheten, närheten
narmast, närmast, nord, Norra, ny, nya, och, ost
Ostra, Östra, over, över, pa, på, sidan, sma
små, Sodra, Södra, stor, syd, till, till, under
vast, väst, Vastra, Västra, via - Numbers, numeric equivalents, and ordinals—Numbered streets are mapped to the named equivalents. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses.
- Address point data— The SWE NAVTEQ Points database includes address point data. Address point candidates return an S8 result code.