Global Addressing Module

Global Address Validation

Supported Countries

Global Address Validation provides enhanced address standardization and validation for the following prioritized countries. The three-digit ISO country code is shown for each country.
  • Argentina (ARG)
  • Australia (AUS)
  • Austria (AUT)
  • Belgium (BEL)
  • Brazil (BRA)
  • Canada (CAN)
  • China (CHN)
  • Czech Republic (CHZ)
  • Denmark (DNK)
  • Finland (FIN)
  • France (FRA)
  • Germany (DEU)
  • Greece (GRC)
  • India (IND)
  • Ireland (IRL)
  • Italy (ITA)
  • Japan (JPN)
  • Malaysia (MYS)
  • Mexico (MEX)
  • Netherlands (NLD)
  • New Zealand (NZL)
  • Norway (NOR)
  • Poland (POL)
  • Russia (RUS)
  • Spain (ESP)
  • Sweden (SWE)
  • Switzerland (CHE)
  • United Kingdom (GBR) (Includes POI information)
Global Address Validation provides additional support for 130+ countries worldwide.

Support for PO Box Matching

Global Address Validation has added support for PO Box matching for these countries:
  • Canada (CAN)
  • France (FRA)
  • United Kingdom (GBR)

PO Box Precision Codes

Support for PO Box matching includes new precision codes that describe the precision of the address match to PO Box.
  • B1 - Matched to an unvalidated PO Box. Although there is enough information in the record to identify this as a PO Box, not enough information exists to determine whether the PO Box number is valid.
  • B2 - Matched to a validated PO Box.
To include the precision codes in your output, you must check the Precision output option.

Reporting PO Box Matches

The Global Address Validation Match Analysis by Country Report includes a new Precision Code B Category section. This section provides statistics on the number and the percentage of records in your job that matched for each precision code. The precision code describes the level of precision for each record's address match.

Global Type Ahead

Supported Countries

Global Type Ahead covers street addresses and Points of Interest (POI) for the following countries. The three-digit ISO country code is shown for each country.

  • Andorra (AND)
  • Australia (AUS)
  • Austria (AUT)
  • Bahrain (BHR)
  • Belgium (BEL)
  • Brazil (BRA)
  • Canada (CAN)
  • Czech Republic (CZE)
  • Denmark (DNK)
  • Finland (FIN)
  • France (FRA)
  • Germany (DEU)
  • Greece (GRC) (Does not include POI information)
  • Hungary (HUN)
  • Ireland (IRL)
  • Italy (ITA)
  • Japan (JPN)
  • Kuwait (KWT)
  • Liechtenstein (LIE)
  • Luxembourg (LUX)
  • Mexico (MEX)
  • Netherlands (NLD)
  • New Zealand (NZL) (Does not include POI information)
  • Norway (NOR)
  • Oman (OMN)
  • Poland (POL)
  • Portugal (PRT)
  • Qatar (QAT)
  • Russia (RUS)
  • Saudi Arabia (SAU)
  • Singapore (SGP)
  • Slovakia (SVK)
  • Slovenia (SVN)
  • South Africa (ZAF)
  • Spain (ESP)
  • Sweden (SWE)
  • Switzerland (CHE)
  • Thailand (THA)
  • Turkey (TUR)
  • United Arab Emirates (ARE)
  • United Kingdom (GBR)
  • United States (USA)
Note: See the current Database Release Notes for more details of country coverage and data vintages.

Global Type Ahead Data Support

Global Type Ahead supports the data in the Q4 2017 data refresh for the 12.2 release. The Q4 2017 data refresh includes these new databases for Global Type Ahead:
  • UK_RM - The United Kingdom Royal Mail (RM) database includes support for Range/Range Units for the United Kingdom.
  • US_MLD - The United States Master Location Data (MLD) database includes support for Range/Range Units for the United States.

Support for Range and Range Units

Global Type Ahead now supports Range and Range Units for the United Kingdom (GBR) and the United States (USA). For the United Kingdom (GBR), UK Royal Mail (RM) data is used. For the United States (USA), Master Location Data (MLD) is used.

Eircode Support

Global Type Ahead has added support for Eircodes for Ireland. The Eircode code is a seven character alpha-numeric code made up of two parts.
Routing key
The first three characters define a principal post town span of delivery.
Unique identifier
The last four characters uniquely identify each residential and business address.
For more information about Eircodes, see the Global Addressing Module in your Spectrumâ„¢ Technology Platform Addressing Guide.

Sample Web Application

A sample web application that demonstrates the Global Type Ahead features and functionality is now packaged with Global Type Ahead. Global Type Ahead automatically suggests addresses as you type and immediately returns candidates based on your input. As you type more specific information, the results are refined to display more relevant candidates. You can then select your candidate from the presented candidate list. For more information about the sample web application, see the Global Addressing Module in your Spectrumâ„¢ Technology Platform Addressing Guide.

Java Script Component

The Global Type Ahead Java Script Component is a simple interface that you can use to integrate Global Type Ahead (GTA) functionality into an existing web application. The new Global Type Ahead Java Script Component is installed as part of the Global Addressing Module installation. For more information about the Java Script Component, see the Global Addressing Module in your Spectrumâ„¢ Technology Platform Addressing Guide.