Input Fields

For China, Geocode Address Global takes a street address 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 China.

AddressLine1

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

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

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 China

Field Name

Description

AddressLine1
  • The address line containing the street name and building number.

    Datsun Rd
    1000 Beijing

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

AddressLine2

This field is not used in this country.

City

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

County

The meaning of county varies by country.

  • CHN (China)—Not used

FirmName

This field is not used in this country.

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.

LastLine

The last line of the address.

Datsun Rd
1000 Beijing

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.

  • CHN (China)—Locality

PostalCode

The postal code in the appropriate format for the country.

China has a six-digit postcode system. The first two digits represent the province. The third digit and fourth digits represent the district and city/town. The final two digits represent the postal delivery zone or prominent location. Larger provinces or cities might be assigned more than one block of codes. For example, Guangdong Province is assigned 51 and 52 as the first two digits.
Note: For China, postal centroid geocoding requires the complete six-digit postcode. However, when a postal code is provided as part of an address for street geocoding, only four-digit postal codes are accepted and returned.

StateProvince

The meaning of State/Province varies by country.

  • CHN (China)—Province