Address Guidelines for Portugal

Enterprise Geocoding offers several PRT databases including the HERE point database. Contact your sales representative for more information about licensing these databases. Your Enterprise Geocoding database release notes identify the current database vintages.

Follow these guidelines to provide input that Geocode Address Global can successfully geocode. For additional information about Portugal addresses, see the CTT Portugal Post website: http://www.ctt.pt.

• Required fields—Addresses must contain either a city or a postal code.
• Thoroughfare types—Thoroughfare types and their common abbreviations are recognized and fully supported on input and output.
• Common words and abbreviations—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. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses.
• Address point data— The PRT HERE Points database includes address point data. Address point candidates return an S8 result code.