Input Fields

For Finland, GeocodeAddressGlobal 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 Finland.

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 Finland

columnName

Description

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

    Storm Robertson 18
    00120 Helsinki

  • 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. For Finland, Finnish, Swedish, and other language aliases are supported for major post town names. For example, Grankulla is an alias for Kauniainen.

County

The meaning of county varies by country.

  • FIN (Finland)—Not used

FirmName

A place name, such as a building name or company name.

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.

Storm Robertson 18
00120 Helsinki

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.

  • FIN (Finland)—Not used

PostalCode

The postal code in the appropriate format for the country.

Finland has a five-digit postal code. The first two digits designate the post town or municipal area. The last three digits represent the destination post office.

StateProvince

The meaning of State/Province varies by country.

  • FIN (Finland)—Region (län)