Input Fields
For Africa, GeocodeAddressGlobal takes a street address or intersection as input. To obtain the best performance and the most possible matches, your input address lists should be as complete as possible, free of misspellings and incomplete addresses, and as close to postal authority standards as possible. Most postal authorities have websites that contain information about address standards for their particular country.
The following table lists the input fields used for geocoding locations in Africa.
AddressLine1
For most countries, the AddressLine1 field should contain the address line that has the street name and building number in it.
This field can also contain the full address. For more information, see Single Line Input.
For all countries except Argentina, Great Britain, and Japan, this field can contain
a street intersection. To specify a street intersection, use double ampersand
(&&) to separate the streets. For more information, see
Street Intersection Input.
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AddressLine1 |
One of the following:
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AddressLine2 |
This field is not used with countries included with the Africa bundle (Product Code XA1), Middle East bundle (Product Code XM1), or Latin America bundle (Product Code XL1). These databases generally have less comprehensive address coverage. |
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City |
The city or town name. For most countries, your input address should use the official city name. |
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County |
The meaning of county varies by country. The majority of countries in the Africa database (XA1) do not use a county or equivalent as part of an address.
This field is not used with countries included with the Africa bundle (Product Code XA1). These African countries generally have less comprehensive address coverage. |
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FirmName |
This field is not used with countries included with the Africa bundle (Product Code XA1). These countries generally have less comprehensive address coverage. |
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HouseNumber |
The building number. You may get better parsing results for some countries if you put the house number in this field instead of AddressLine1. Not every country includes house number data. The Africa and Middle East countries do not generally have house numbers in the data source. Note: The house number specified in the HouseNumber field takes
precedence over any house number specified in the AddressLine1
field.
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LastLine |
The last line of the address.
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Locality |
The meaning of locality varies by country. Generally a locality is a village in rural areas or it may be a suburb in urban areas. When used, a locality typically appears on the last line of the address with the postcode. African and Middle East countries do not use a locality or equivalent as part of an address. However there is no penalty if state/province is used in input address.
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PostalCode |
The postal code in the appropriate format for the country. The Africa and Middle East databases generally do not have postal code data. |
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StateProvince |
The meaning of State/Province varies by country. Countries in the Africa, Middle East, and Latin America databases do not use a state/province or equivalent as part of an address. However there is no penalty if state/province is used in input address.
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