Address Guidelines for India

The Enterprise Geocoding Module offers several IND databases including the TomTom street and point databases and the Lepton database. 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 the India postal system, see the India Post website: http://www.indiapost.gov.in.

• 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.
• Common words and abbreviations in addresses—The geocoder recognizes common words that are used in street names, directionals, building identifiers, and Points of Interest and can successfully geocode addresses that use these common words. Common abbreviations are also recognized within addresses.
• Numbers, Numeric Equivalents, and Ordinals—Numbered streets are mapped to the named equivalents. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses.
• Point of Interest—The India geocoder can return S8 close match candidates based on a placename combined with any valid locational input (town, locality, or postcode). Points of Interest (POI) can include restaurants, hotels, police stations, banks, ATMs, hospitals, schools, stores, and other businesses and organizations. Input placenames can be geocoded correctly even if they include numbers, hyphens, various types of punctuation, abbreviations, or minor misspellings. POI candidates also return sublocality, if that information is available in the data.
• Sublocality—The India geocoder can return SL sublocality candidates. This indicates a sublocality (block or sector) street level match. An SL result code also requires a match on other geographic input fields (city, district, or state).
• Street level geocoding— Street geocoded India addresses can return candidates based on Placename/Point of Interest (S8 result code), sublocality (SL result code), and street centroid (S4 result code). Depending on your requirements, you may prefer to see some or all of these candidates. These returns are controlled by API s and by selections in the Management Console interface. See Matching Options for coverage of the ReturnPOIWithStreet, ReturnSublocalityCandidates, ReturnStreetCandidates, and other India-specific preferences.
• Address Point data— TomTom data starting with 2012.09 vintage includes address point data. Address point candidates return an S8 result code.