Input Fields

For Great Britain, GeocodeAddressGlobal takes a street address , PO Box 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 Great Britain.

Data.AddressLine1

For most countries, the AddressLine1 field should contain the address line that has the street name and building number and/or PO Box in it.

This field can also contain the full address. For more information, see Single Line Input.

Addresses in CAN, FRA and GBR containing PO Box information in place of, or in addition to, street address can be geocoded.

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.

Table 1. Input Fields for Great Britain

Parameter

Description

Data.AddressLine1

One of the following:

  • For addresses in the U.K., this can contain a building name. For example:

    Milton Place
    Victoria Street
    Windsor SL4 1EG

  • This field can also contain the full address. For more information, see Single Line Input

Data.AddressLine2

The second address line of a two-line address. For example:

Minton Place
Victoria Street
Windsor SL4 1EG

Data.City

The city or town name. For most countries, your input address should use the official city name.

Data.County

The meaning of county varies by country.

  • GBR (Great Britain)—Not used

Data.FirmName

Company or place name. For example:

Pitney Bowes Software Ltd
Minton Place
Victoria Street
Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1EG

Data.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.

Note: The house number specified in the HouseNumber field takes precedence over any house number specified in the AddressLine1 field.

Data.LastLine

The last line of the address.

  • Milton Place
    Victoria Street
    Windsor SL4 1EG

Data.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.

  • GBR (Great Britain)—Locality

Data.PostalCode

The postal code in the appropriate format for the country.

In the United Kingdom, each address is associated with an alphanumeric code up to seven characters in length. Each postcode includes an average of 15 addresses. In some cases, where a customer receives a substantial amount of mail, for example, a business, the postcode pertains to just that one address (a large-user postcode).

Data.StateProvince

The meaning of State/Province varies by country.

  • GBR (Great Britain)—Region