Geocoding Features

Spectrum Global Geocoding provides the following capabilities when built into your Spectrum Technology Platform application. The following capabilities are supported.

• Single and multiple line input search for street addresses
• Match mode is one of Standard, Close, or Relaxed
• Preference for geocoding to PO Box or Streets
• Candidates returned in order based on distance from X/Y origin
• Search points of interest (POI)
• Search All to include both street addresses and POI
• Search POI ¹ categories and subcategories
• Localized categories and subcategories for countries with localized data
• Search for brand (such as a specific hotel chain) in categories and subcategories
• Search within a bounding box
• Country-specific features; see ISO 3166-1 Country Codes
• Matched fields reported with returned candidates

After installing and deploying the Spectrum Global Geocoding module, you can use the Management Console to explore all the capabilities and see candidate results. You can also include Spectrum Global Geocoding as a stage in your dataflow in Enterprise Designer.

You can use additional features and preferences through the REST API. See Introduction to the Global Geocoding APIs.