Address Guidelines for Sweden

Enterprise Geocoding offers several SWE databases including the HERE street and point databases. 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 Sweden addresses, see the Post Norden website: http://www.posten.se/.

  • 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. Following is a list of some recognized thoroughfare types. This is a partial list, and other thoroughfare types are also recognized.

    ALLE, ALLÉ, BACKE, BULEVARDI, BULEVARD
    DALLEN, ESPLANADI, GATAN, GATTAN, GATA
    GATE, GATEN, GRANDEN, GRAND, GRÄND
    GÅRD, GARD, KATU, KUJA, LERIG
    LIDEN, PARKEN, PARK, PLAN, PORTTI
    PROMENADEN, PROMENADER, RACE, RÅDE, RADE
    RINNE, STIGEN, STIG, STRAND, SKOG
    TIE, TORG, VAG, VAGEN, VÄGEN
    VÄG, VAGAN, VÄGAN

  • Common words and abbreviations—The geocoder recognizes common words, directionals, house number indicators, and abbreviations used in addresses and can geocode these addresses successfully. Following is a list of some common words that are recognized. This is a partial list, and other common words and abbreviations are also recognized.

    andra, at, åt, av, bak, bakom, de, del
    den, dens, emellan, en, for, för, fore, för
    framfor, framföre, framme, fran, från, gamla, gammal, gammalt
    i, in, infor, införe, intill, kort, lang, lång
    liten, litens, med, mellan, motliggande, narheten, närheten
    narmast, närmast, nord, Norra, ny, nya, och, ost
    Ostra, Östra, over, över, pa, på, sidan, sma
    små, Sodra, Södra, stor, syd, till, till, under
    vast, väst, Vastra, Västra, via

  • Numbers, numeric equivalents, and ordinals—Numbered streets are mapped to the named equivalents. Ordinals are also recognized in input addresses.
  • Address point data— The SWE HERE Points database includes address point data. Address point candidates return an S8 result code.