Address Guidelines for Italy

Follow these guidelines to provide input that GeocodeAddressGlobal can successfully geocode. For additional information about the Italy postal system, see the Posteitaliane website: http://www.poste.it/.

  • Required fields—Addresses must contain either a city or a postal code.
  • German language addresses—German address formats (common in the South Tyrol area of Italy) are handled and geocoded correctly. Typical German thoroughfare types and abbreviations are supported. For example, the street name Marienstraße could be abbreviated as Marienstr, and the same candidate is returned. Note that regardless of whether strasse or straße is entered as input, strasse is returned in the output candidate.
  • Aliases for regions, localities, and provinces—Aliases can be used on input. For example, Tuscany is an alias for the region of Toscana. When you geocode, the returned candidate matches the user input. That is, if aliases were used then aliases are returned.
  • Regions and provinces—For street geocoding, region names (which are entered in the StateProvince field) are not used for geocoding purposes, but are returned. Province abbreviations consisting of two letters are returned in the County field. Italy has 20 regions and 110 provinces.
  • PO boxes—Post Office Box numbers are not used for address matching or geocoding purposes, but this does not interfere with matching or geocoding. The PO Box information is not returned. The following formats are recognized:

    Casella Postale
    CP

  • Thoroughfare types—Thoroughfare types (pre and post thoroughfare types) and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported on input and output. Both Italian and German thoroughfare formats are supported.
  • Common words, abbreviations, and directionals—The geocoder recognizes common words, directionals, house number indicators, and abbreviations used in addresses and can geocode these addresses successfully.
  • Numbers, numeric equivalents, and ordinals—Numbered streets are mapped to the named equivalents. For example, if you enter the street name Via 42 Martiri, the street name QUARANTADUE MARTIRI is returned. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses.