Address Guidelines for Argentina

Follow these suggestions to ensure that your street input data is in the best format possible for optimal geocoding. For additional information about Argentine addresses, see the Correo Argentino website: http://www.correoargentino.com.ar/.

• Required fields—If you are using the standard TomTom database, addresses must contain a city. For the NAVTEQ database, addresses can contain either a city or postal code.
• Thoroughfare types—Thoroughfare types and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported in input addresses. Examples of typical thoroughfare types are:

  Avendia	Avendia	Av	Ave	Avda
  Calle	C	Clle
  Lateral Ruta	Lat Ruta	L R	LR
  Ruta Provincia	R P	RP

• Numbers, numeric equivalents, and ordinals—Numbered streets are mapped to the named equivalents. For example, you can input Calle 5 or Calle cinco and get the same returned candidates. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses. The following numbers and equivalents are recognized as part of a street name input:

  1,UNO,PRIMERO,PRIMER,PRIMERA

  5,CINCO,QUINTO,QUINTA

  For example, an input street name of "25 de Mayo" is recognized and handled the same way as "Veinticinco de Mayo".

• Proper names and dates in street and town names—Proper names and dates are often used in Argentina addresses, and these are handled by MapMarker Argentina. For example, an input street name of "Juan F. Ibarra" is recognized and handled the same way as "Juan Felipe Ibarra".
• Directionals in addresses—The following directionals are recognized in input addresses: Norte, Oriente, Este, Sur, Oueste, Occidente, Poniente, N, E, S, O, NE, NO, SE, SO, Noreste, Sudeste, Noroeste, Sudoeste.
• Abbreviations in addresses—A number of common abbreviations can be used in input addresses. GeocodeAddress ARG will recognize the abbreviations and geocode successfully. For example, following is a small sample of equivalent abbreviations. This is not a complete list of address abbreviations.

  Bario	BAR
  Ciudad	CD	CD.
  Colonia	COL	COL.
  Doctor	DR
  Francisco	FCO
  Manza	MZA