Address Guidelines for Africa
GeocodeAddressGlobal with the Africa database provides street-level, city, or geographic geocoding for many African countries. These countries are bundled as the Africa database (Product Code XA1).
Follow these guidelines to provide input that GeocodeAddressGlobal can successfully geocode African addresses.
- Required fields—Addresses must contain a city.
- Thoroughfare types—Thoroughfare types and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported on input and output.
- 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 generally not available with the African database. Morocco (MAR) is the only country in the XA1 Africa database that has postal code data, and therefore the only country in this database that supports postal geocoding.
If the input includes a state/province or locality and that input is matched, it does contribute to a higher candidate ranking. However, there is no penalty if state/province or locality is omitted or unmatched.