Typical Application Examples

Numbered Street Examples

In a typical mobile application, you would allow the application to identify your geographic location. Your location will also determine the default country. For the purposes of these examples, we will assume that the default is USA, but you can change this to any supported country. See GeoComplete Coverage for a list of available countries.

See Using the APIs for a description of all the options than can be controlled through the API.
Note: The GeoComplete Module is packaged with a sample application. See GeoComplete Module Features for instructions on how to run the sample application. The sample application has limited capabilities and is for demonstration purposes only. It is not a supported application.

The following example describes a GeoComplete example with a New York City numbered street.

  • Start with focus in USA, New York City, midtown Manhattan. Type: 60 east 4 s

This returns:

60 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003

60 E 4th St, Brooklyn, NY 11218

Street and Directional Abbreviation Examples

The New York (Manhattan) address is returned first, because this is closest to the origin. An identical address exists in Brooklyn, NY, several miles further from the origin. Others addresses are returned in increasingly further distance from the X/Y origin.

The following example describes a GeoComplete example with a numbered street in Italy.

  • Start with focus in Italy (ITA) in the city of Palermo. Type: via 4

This returns:

Via 4 Aprile, 90133 Palermo

A total of ten "via 4" and "via Quarto" street addresses are returned in increasing distance from origin. The word Quarto is recognized as the number 4 in street name.

  • Start with focus in Canada (CAN). Type: 990 north ma
This returns:

990 N Mary Lake Rd, Huntsville, ON, P1H

Notice that you entered "North" but the address is returned correctly as 990 "N" Mary Lake Rd, as the address appears in the data source.
  • Start with focus in USA, in Nashua, NH. Type: 923 St
This returns:

923 Saint James Pl, Nashua, NH 03062

In this example, St is recognized as street abbreviation for Saint.