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1. The geocoder covers several French overseas territories The geocoder recognizes the unique French territorial SO codes and you can use these codes with input addresses The territories use the French 5 digit postal code system but each territorial postal code starts with 3 unique digits The accompanying table summarizes the ISO codes data vintages and unique postal codes of the covered French territories Table 5 French Overseas Territories Territory Name ISO 3116 1 Alpha 2 ISO 3116 1 Alpha 3 First 3 Digits of Postal Code Guadeloupe Martinique French Guiana R union Mayotte You can also use the country code for France FRA or FR In that case you can get candidates from France Monaco and the territories if that city town name occurs in both France and in one or more Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global of the territories However if you explicitly specify MCO or a territorial country code you will get candidates from the specified country only and not from France e Placename Support for User Dictionaries If your user dictionary includes placenames you can geocode these placenames and that information is returned with candidates e Additional Fields for Address Range and User Dictionaries Additional fields can be created and returned for both Address Range and Point user dictionaries These additional fields can contain any special information associated with an address You can
2. geocoder handles this input format and geocodes correctly Arrondissements the last two digits of the postcode can be entered and the complete locality and postcode information is returned For the following input address a close match candidate is returned with a result code of SSHPNTSCZA AddressLine1 7 Rue Beranger PostalCode 75003 City Paris The returned Locality field includes the arrondissement district information The Paris region includes 20 arrondissements which are represented by the last two digit of the postcode the first three digits are 750 A Paris address may be written with the last two digits only For the following input address a close match candidate is returned with a result code of SSHPNTSC A AddressLine1 51 Rue Lafitte PostalCode 09 City Paris The complete postcode 75009 is returned even though 09 representing the ninth arrondissement was entered e Military addresses Military addresses including typical military address abbreviations are handled The first two digits usually represent the department The digits 00 represent military addresses e Monaco addresses The geocoder handles Monaco addresses You can specify Monaco or the MCO or MC country codes in the StateProvince input field If you input a Monaco address as France the geocoder attempts to identify this and returns the Monaco candidate if possible All Monaco postcodes begin with the number 98 Overseas Territories addresses
3. HouseNumberParity Language LastLine LeadingDirectional Locality NumberOfCandidateRanges NumberOfRangeUnits PostalCode PostalCode Addon PreAddress Description The type of unit such as apartment suite or lot Unit number The municipality name The three letter ISO 3166 1 Alpha 3 country code The meaning of county varies by country FRA France Department The department name Name of the company or a place name The building number for the matched location The highest house number of the range in which the address resides The lowest house number of the range in which the address resides Indicates if the house number range contains even or odd numbers or both E Even 0 Odd B Both U Unknown For reverse geocoded candidates the two character language code is returned Complete last address line city state province and postal code Street directional that precedes the street name For example the N in 138 N Main Street The meaning of locality varies by country e FRA France Not used Indicates the number of ranges of which the candidate is a member A candidate may be a part of multiple ranges if the candidate is a street instead of a building To specify the number of ranges to return for each candidate use the Maximum ranges per candidate option Indicates the number of units included in the range A unit is an address within a building such as an apartment o
4. countries the word AND can also be used to delimit intersections The amp amp delimiter can be used for all countries For example AddressLine1 Chemin du Prieur amp amp Rue de la Montcient City Seraincourt Note The double ampersand amp amp can always be used as an street intersection separator For some countries you can use additional symbols or words to delimit street intersections All close match criteria are enforced for intersection geocoding just as for any street level geocoding Options Geocoding Options The following table lists the options that control how a location s coordinates are determined Table 6 Default Geocoding Options Option Name Description Geocode level Specifies how precisely you want to geocode addresses One of the following Street The geocoder attempts to geocode addresses to a address street address but some matches may end up ata less precise location such as a postal code centroid intersection or shape path Postal If postal code data is available the geocoder attempts centroid to geocode addresses to the most precise postal code it finds The advantage of postal code centroid matching is the speed of the operation The disadvantage of postal code matching is that the geocoder only examines the PostalCode field If you use street address precision the geocoder looks at both the street name and the PostalCode field and attempts to return street level coordinates an
5. field will show a description of the failure Problem explanation Geocoding Failed No location returned No Candidates Returned Multiple Candidates Returned and Keep Multiple Matches not selected LocationPrecision 0 o oo JO 0 Y N o 11 12 15 LocationPrecision codes 13 14 15 16 Returned when Status Code Internal System Error Returned when Status code No Geocode Found Returned when Status code No Geocode Found The geocoder could nat identify any candidate matches for the address The address resulted in multiple candidates In order for the candidate address to be returned you must select the Keep multiple matches option A code describing the precision of the geocode One of the following No coordinate information is available for this candidate address Interpolated street address Street segment midpoint Postal code 1 centroid Partial postal code 2 centroid Postal code 2 centroid Intersection Point of interest State province centroid County centroid City centroid Locality centroid For most countries LocationPrecision codes 12 through 15 are reserved for unspecified custom items Additional point precision for unspecified custom item Additional point precision for unspecified custom item Additional point precision for unspecified custom item The result is an Address Point Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name St
6. nart Tigery Combs la Ville Lieusaint Moissy Cramayel Saint Pierre du Perray Savigny le Temple R au Nandy Cesson Vert Saint Denis Evry Evry Bondoufle Courcouronnes Lisses Etang de Berre Fos sur Mer Miramas Vitrolles Istres Isle d Abeau Four Isle d Abeau L Saint Quentin Fallavier Vaulx le Milieu Villefontaine Common words and abbreviations The geocoder handles common abbreviations that are used in French addresses It supports all the official French street type abbreviations plus a number of unofficial street types to help improve geocoding efficiency A partial list is 8 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Table 3 Common French Address Abbreviations Street Type or Name Abbreviation Hauts No abbreviation appartement APP APT APPART Saint ST Sainte rue Charles de Gaulle Regiment D Infanterie de Marine Division Blind e Directionals in addresses Abbreviated street directionals are also handled on input and the returned candidate displays the complete directional Table 4 Street Directionals Nord Sud Est Ouest Nord Est Sud Est Nord Ouest Sud Ouest Ordinals and numbered street names Input addresses can include ordinals such as 1er 2e 2nd 2nde 3e All subsequent ordinal street names are designated with e or me You can also specify numbers in street names or express the numbers as words For example the followi
7. street name of Rue des Remparts A typical German formatted address could have a street name Bahnhofstrasse Note Geocode Address Global does not support U S or U K addresses To geocode U S addresses use Geocode US Address To geocode U K addresses use Geocode Address GBR The countries available to you depends on which country databases you have installed For example if you have databases for Canada Italy and Australia installed Geocode Address Global would be able to geocode addresses in these countries in a single stage Before you can work with Geocode Address Global you must define a global database resource containing a database for one or more countries Once you create the database resource a Geocode Address Global will become available in the Management Console Enterprise Designer and Interactive Driver Geocode Address Global is an optional component of the Enterprise Geocoding Module In this section Ly TER 6 e OptlONS 2020 NL Ee e 12 QU PUL EE 19 Input Input Geocode Address Global takes an 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 Input Fields For France Geoco
8. Specifies whether to return address range information If you enable this option the output field Ranges will be included in the output A range is a series of addresses along a street segment For example 5400 5499 Main St is an address range representing addresses in the 5400 block of Main St A range may represent just odd or even addresses within a segment or both odd and even addresses A range may also represent a single building with multiple units such as an apartment building If you choose to return ranges this option specifies the maximum number of ranges to return for each candidate Since the geocoder returns one candidate per segment and since a segment may contain multiple ranges this option allows you to see the other ranges in a candidate s segment If you choose to return ranges this option specifies the maximum number of units for example apartments or suites to return for each range For example if you were to geocode an office building at 65 Main St containing four suites there would be a maximum of four units returned for the building s range 65 Suite 1 65 Suite 2 65 Suite 3 and 65 Suite 4 If you were to specify a maximum number of units as 2 then only two units would be returned instead of all four 15 Options 16 Option Name Close matches only Match mode All input House number Street Locality City Description Specifies whether to return only those geocoded results
9. Spectrum Technology Platform Version 9 0 Geocoding Guide for France Contents Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global NEEN 5 A A A E E A 6 A era 6 Address Input Ee d single Line put 11 street Intersection Input EE 12 Options a ne erlebe 12 Geocoding Bee 12 Matching Options rss tii 15 RE Ree 17 Output Data OPONE serca ir 19 OUtPUt A A 19 Address Optra 19 Geocode Duplo e loo ere 23 SU 23 Chapter 2 Reverse Geocode Address Global uz222222000000020020220nn0n00n 27 WU mmm e A 28 lu 28 Geocoding Red 28 Matching Options meer Bee a 30 BER ee 30 A zz SE sntensted iaai EER 31 Chapter 3 Result Codes for International Geocoding uunssrseneennennnnee 35 International Street Geocoding Result Codes S Codes uuunnnsnnneennnnnnnennnn 36 interpreting S Result Codes ocn 36 International Postal Geocoding Result Codes Z Codes ssscesssessseeeee 37 International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G CodesS ccconconccc 38 Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes uurssrrssnnnnsnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnn 38 Non match E0des sa nel 38 Geocode Address Global Geocode Address Global provides street level geocoding for many countries It can also determine city or locality centroids as well as postal code centroids Geocode Address Global handles street addresses in the native language and format For example a typical French formatted address might have a
10. al Point Street coordinates are accurate to 1 10 000 of a degree and interpolated points are accurate to the millionths of a degree Specifies the distance to offset the street end points in street level matching The distance is specified in the units you specify in the Units field This value is used to prevent addresses at street corners from being given the same geocode as the intersection Note Offset is not supported for the United Kingdom GBR or Japan JPN The default value varies by country 12 meters Australia AUS Austria AUT Germany DEU 7 meters For other supported countries the default offset is 7 meters The following diagram compares the end points of a street to offset end points solo se Street Segment End With Corner Offset Street Segment End Specifies the unit of measurement for the street offset and corner offset options One of the following Note Offset is not supported for the United Kingdom GBR or Japan JPN Feet Miles Meters Kilometers The default is Meters A coordinate system is a reference system for the unique location of a point in space Cartesian planar and Geodetic geographical coordinates are examples of reference systems based on Euclidean Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Option Name Matching Options Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Description geometry Spectrum Technology Platform supports systems
11. cription Return only similar firm names This option applies to the U K only Specifies whether to return firm names only when the input firm name is similar to the firm name in the geocoding database For example if the input firm name is Pitney Bowes Business Insight but the geocoding database returns Pitney Bowes Software Inc these two firm names are not similar In most cases the input firm name must match the firm name in the database exactly Some differences in abbreviations are considered similar enough to result in the firm name being returned Output The geocoder returns the latitude longitude standardized address and result indicators Result indicators describe how well the geocoder matched the input address to a known address and assigned a location they also describe the overall status of a match attempt If you are using the API t of the Spectrum Technology Platform API Guide Address Output The address may be identical to the input address if the input address was accurate or it may be a standardized version of the input address or it may be a candidate address when multiple matches are found Table 10 Address Output Field Name Description AddressLine1 First line of the address AddressLine2 Second line of the address Geocoding Guide for France 19 Output 20 Field Name ApartmentLabel ApartmentNumber City Country County FirmName HouseNumber HouseNumberHigh HouseNumberLow
12. d calculated to four decimal places in the format specified Result codes contain information about the success or failure of the geocoding attempt as well as information about the accuracy of the geocode Table 12 Result Code Output Field Name Description Geocoder MatchCode IsCloseMatch MultiMatchCount Status Status Code Geocoding Guide for France Indicates how closely the input address matches the candidate address For more information see Result Codes for International Geocoding on page 35 Indicates whether or not the address is considered a close match An address is considered close based on the Close match criteria options on the Matching tab Y Yes the address is a close match N No the address is not a close match For street address geocoding the number of matching address positions found for the specified address For intersection geocoding the number of matching street intersection positions found for the specified addresses Reports the success or failure of the match attempt null Success F Failure If the geocoder could not process the address this field will show the reason Internal System Error e No Geocode Found e Insufficient Input Data e Multiple Matches Found 23 Output 24 Field Name Description Exception occurred Unable to initialize Geocoder e No Match Found Status Description If the geocoder could not process the address this
13. d internal parsing rules identify address components In the example above the address would still successfully geocode even if some or all of the delimiters were missing in the input Note Non delimited or partially delimited single line addresses may take longer to geocode and may not produce the same results as delimited single line input This is especially true for addresses with multi word street names or cities To optimize single line geocoding use delimiters between address components particularly between street name and city Punctuation is ignored for geocoding purposes Geocoding Guide for France 11 Options Guidelines for Single Line Input For Germany France and New Zealand yYou must specify a value in either the PostalCode field or the City field in order for single line input to successfully geocode Punctuation is generally ignored however you may improve results and performance by using separators commas semicolons etc between different address elements The country is not required Each country geocoder assumes that the address is in its country Firm information placename building name or government building is returned if available Street Intersection Input If you enter a street intersection as input the geocoder will provide the coordinates of the intersection To enter an intersection specify the two street names separated by a double ampersand amp amp in AddressLine1 For some
14. d optionally fall back to postal code coordinates 12 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description Geographic The geocoder attempts to geocode addresses to the centroid geographic centroid of a city or state This option is not available for the United Kingdom GBR Address point interpolation Specifies whether to perform address point interpolation This option only works if you have a point database installed This option is available for selected countries only Address point interpolation uses point data to refine geocode results By default the geocoding process estimates the location of an address based on the street numbers at either end of street segment For example if a street segment runs from 100 Main St to 200 Main St then a request for 150 Main St will return a location in the middle of the segment With interpolation the geocoder finds the position of 180 Main St in the point data and it is about two thirds of the way down the street Using this information the geocoder can estimate the position of 150 Main St based on 100 and 180 Main St In this case the geocoder estimates the location of the address slightly away from the center of the segment Geographic centroid Specifies whether to attempt to determine a geographic region centroid when an address level geocode cannot be determined This option is not available for the United Kingdom GBR Postal centro
15. de Country specific geocoders can often generate more accurate postcode results with Z2 or Z3 result codes International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G Codes Geographic level geocoded candidates return a result code beginning with the letter G The numbers following the G in the result code provides more detailed information on the accuracy of the candidate Table 20 Geographic G Result Codes G Result Code Description State or province centroid match County district or region centroid match City or town municipality centroid match Locality village suburb or neighborhood centroid match Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes Matches in the R category indicate that the record was matched by reverse geocoding The second two characters of the R result code indicate the type of match found R geocode results include an additional letter to indicate the dictionary from which the match was made Example reverse geocoding codes Table 21 Reverse Geocoding R Result Codes Reverse Geocoding Code Description Point parcel level precision for reverse geocoding Candidate returned from address dictionary Interpolated street candidate for reverse geocoding Candidate returned from address dictionary Street centroid candidate for reverse geocoding Candidate returned from address dictionary Non match Codes The following result codes indicate no match was made N No close match e NX No clo
16. de Address Global takes an 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 France Note If you are using the API specify input using the DataTable class The fields described below are the valid column names in the DataTable class For information on the DataTable class see the API Fundamentals section of the Spectrum Technology Platform API Guide Table 1 Input Fields Field Name Description AddressLine1 One of the following e The address line containing the street name and building number For example 9 rue Paul Lafayette 93217 ST DENIS CEDEX This field can also contain the full address For more information see Single Line Input on page 11 For all countries except Argentina Great Britain and Japan this field can contain a street intersection To specify a street intersection use double ampersand amp amp to separate the streets For more information see Street Intersection Input on page 12 For France an input street address can include a numbered range For example consider an input address of 104 106 ru
17. directional after pre and post directionals are swapped The input does not have a pre directional Street name Merivale Street type St Street suffix direction W S in result code is present if any of these conditions are satisfied The candidate post directional matches the input post directional The candidate pre directional matches the input post directional after pre and post directionals are swapped The input does not have a post directional City name South Brisbane Postal code 4101 Database type used to obtain the match A A Street Range Address database U Customer user defined database International Postal Geocoding Result Codes Z Codes Matches in the Z category indicate that a match was made at the postcode level A postcode match is returned in either of these cases You specified to match to postal code centroids The resulting point is located at the postal code centroid with the following possible accuracy levels There is no street level close match and you specified to fall back to postal code centroid Table 19 Postal Z Result Codes Z Result Code Description Postal Code centroid match Full postal code centroid match For Canada this is an FSALDU centroid Geocoding Guide for France 37 International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G Codes Postal level geocoded candidates return a result code beginning with the letter Z France can generate a Z1 result co
18. e addresses in the database If this option is not selected coordinates that results in multiple address candidates will fail to geocode If you select this option specify the maximum number of candidates to return next to the check box Data Options The Data tab allows you to specify which databases to use in reverse geocoding Databases contain the address and geocode data necessary to determine the address for a given point The following table lists the options available for specifying the search order of databases Table 16 Default Data Options Option Name Description Override the default database Specifies whether to use the database search list specified in the search list Management Console under the database resources tools Modules gt Enterprise Geocoding gt Tools If you choose to override the default database search list you may change the search order of the databases in the Database search list field You may also remove databases from the search list 30 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Option Name Database search list Output Chapter 2 Reverse Geocode Address Global Description If you override the default database search list changes to the database resources will not be reflected in the database search list which may cause geocoding to fail However if you do not override the default database search order any changes to the database resources will be automatically reflected by the geoc
19. e candidate is a member A candidate may be a part of multiple ranges if the candidate is a street instead of a building To specify the number of ranges to return for each candidate use the Maximum ranges per candidate option Indicates the number of units included in the range A unit is an address within a building such as an apartment or office suite To specify the number of units to return for each range use the Maximum units per range option The postcode for the address The format of the postcode varies by country Postcode data is not available for every country The second part of a postcode This field is not used by most countries Miscellaneous information that appears before the street name This field is not currently used A unique ID that identifies a street segment Indicates which side of the street has odd numbers L Left side of the street R Right side of the street B Both sides of the street Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name StateProvince StreetDataType StreetName StreetPrefix StreetSuffix TrailingDirectional UnitNumberHigh UnitNumberLow Geocoding Guide for France Chapter 2 Reverse Geocode Address Global Description U Undetermined The meaning of State Province varies by country FRA France Region The default search order rank of the database used to geocode the address A value of 1 indicates that the database is first in the default search order 2 indica
20. e de Charenton The returned candidate includes two address ranges and the 104 close match is from the 100 106 range Alphanumeric ranged addresses are also handled for example you could input a alphanumeric ranged address like 2A 4B Ifthe geocoding database has alphabetic values for the input house number the geocoder returns the house number as it exists in the database with or without the alphabetic character If the geocoder cannot confirm alphabetic values for the input house number it returns the alphabetic value that was provided on input as long as the house number matched AddressLine2 This field is not used in this country Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Field Name FirmName HouseNumber Locality PostalCode StateProvince Address Input Guidelines Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Description The city or town name Your input address should use the official city name Some areas in France are generally recognized as cities even though they are not truly administrative cities These areas represent Artificial City Areas or Virtual Towns For a listing of supported virtual towns see Address Guidelines for France on page 8 The meaning of county varies by country FRA France Department The department name Company or place name For example Pitney Bowes Immeuble Le Triangle 9 rue Paul Lafargue 93217 ST DENIS CEDEX The building number You may get better parsing results for some c
21. entroid Do not select this fallback level Data Options The Data tab allows you to specify which databases to use in geocoding Databases contain the address and geocode data necessary to determine the geocode for a given address There are two kinds of databases standard databases and custom databases Standard databases are those supplied by Pitney Bowes Software and based on address and geocoding data from postal authorities and suppliers of geographical data Custom databases are databases you create to enhance or augment standard databases for your particular needs The following table lists the options available for specifying which databases to use and the search order of databases Table 8 Default Data Options Option Name Description Database Specifies the database to be used for geocoding Only databases that have been defined in the Databases Resources panel in the Management Console are available Geocoding Guide for France 17 Options 18 Option Name Database preference Override the default database search list Database search list Description Specifies which geocoding databases to use One of the following Prefer custom Use both standard databases and custom database databases but give preference to candidates from custom databases Use this option if you feel your custom database is superior to the standard database Prefer standard Use both standard databases and custom database databas
22. eocode Address Global is an optional component of the Enterprise Geocoding Module In this section ut Tt EE e OPUONS EE e et dn EEN Input Input Reverse Geocode Address Global takes longitude and latitude as input Table 13 Reverse Geocode Global Input Field Name Options Geocoding Options Format Description The latitude of the point for which you want address information The longitude of the point for which you want address information One of the following The name of the country in English The two character ISO 3116 1 alpha 2 country code The three character ISO 3116 1 alpha 3 country code Table 14 Default Geocoding Options Option Name Description Search distance Units Offset from street 28 The radius from the input coordinates in which to search for an address Street segments and points within the radius are considered The default search radius is 150 meters and the maximum search radius is 1600 meters The units in which the search distance is specified One of the following Feet Miles Meters Kilometers Indicates the offset distance from the street segments to use in street level geocoding The distance is specified in the units you specify in the Units field The default value varies by country For most countries the default is 7 meters The offset distance is used in street level geocoding to prevent the geocode from being in t
23. es but give preference to candidates from standard databases Use custom Use only custom databases Ignore standard databases only databases Use standard Use only standard databases Ignore custom databases only databases Use both custom and Use both standard databases and custom standard databases databases In cases where candidates are returned from both the standard database is preferred Default The results from a custom database have a U at the end of the result code Results from an address database have an A at the end of the match score For example SSHPNTSCZA is a match score that comes from an address database while SSHPNTSCZU comes from a custom database For more information see Result Codes for International Geocoding on page 35 Specifies whether to use the database search list specified in the Management Console under the database resources tools Modules gt Enterprise Geocoding gt Tools If you choose to override the default database search list you may change the search order of the databases in the Database search list field You may also remove databases from the search list If you override the default database search list changes to the database resources will not be reflected in the database search list which may cause geocoding to fail However if you do not override the default database search order any changes to the database resources will be automatically reflected by the geocoder For exam
24. et has odd numbers L Left side of the street Right side of the street R B Both sides of the street U Undetermined The meaning of State Province varies by country e FRA France Region The default search order rank of the database used to geocode the address A value of 1 indicates that the database is first in the default search order 2 indicates that the database is second in the default search order and so on The default database search order is specified in the Management Console with the Database Resources tool For most countries this contains the street name The type of street when the street type appears before the base street name The street type of the matched location For example AVE for Avenue Street directional that follows the street name The highest unit number of the range in which the unit resides The lowest unit number of the range in which the unit resides Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Geocode Output Table 11 Geocode Output Field Name CoordinateSystem Result Codes Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Description The coordinate system used to determine the latitude and longitude coordinates A coordinate system specifies a map projection coordinate units etc An example is EPSG 4326 EPSG stands for European Petroleum Survey Group Seven digit number in degrees and calculated to four decimal places in the format specified Seven digit number in degrees an
25. evel geocoded candidates return a result code beginning with the letter S The second character in the code indicates the positional accuracy of the resulting point for the geocoded record Table 18 Street S Result Codes S Result Code Description Single close match with the point located at postal code centroid Single close match with the point located at postal code centroid Single close match with the point located at the street centroid The S4 code is followed by letters and dashes indicating match precision see Interpreting S Result Codes on page 36 Single close match with the point located at a street address position The S5 code is followed by letters and dashes indicating match precision For information about these letters see Interpreting S Result Codes on page 36 Single close match with the point located at centroid of geometry postal code For example large buildings having their own codes Single match with the point located at an interpolated point along the candidate s street segment When the potential candidate is not an address point candidate and there are no exact house number matches among other address point candidates the S7 result is returned using address point interpolation The point is interpolated according to the next highest or lowest address point candidate that both intersects the segment and whose house number is contained within the range of houses of the original candidate By using know
26. fected when the house number range for a candidate does not contain the input house number If you relax the house number you should set the maximum ranges to be returned to a value higher than 0 Specifies whether candidates must match the street name to be considered a close match If a close match is found the geocoder attempts expanded street name manipulation which looks for candidates with names that sound like the input address or that are spelled improperly This slows down performance but increases the match rate If the geocoding database is indexed the performance impact is reduced Specifies whether candidates must match the locality or equivalent to be considered a close match The meaning of Locality varies for different countries If you do not require exact matches on locality the geocoder searches on the street address matched to the particular postal code and considers other localities that do not match the name but do match the postal code FRA France Not used Specifies whether candidates must match the city to be considered a close match For Japan this field specifies whether the candidate must match the municipality subdivision oaza If you do not require exact matches on city the geocoder searches on the street address matched Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description to the particular postal code and considers other cities that do not matc
27. h the name but do match the postal code Specifies whether candidates must match the county or equivalent to be considered a close match The meaning of county varies for different countries FRA France Department State Province Specifies whether candidates must match the state or province or equivalent to be considered a close match FRA France Region Postal code Specifies whether candidates must match the postal code to be considered a close match If you do not require exact match on postal codes the geocoder searches a wider area for a match While this results in slower performance the match rate is higher because the request does not need to match exactly when it compares match candidates You may want to use a balanced strategy between match rate and geographic precision That is you may want to geocode as many records as possible automatically but at the same time want to minimize the number of weaker matches false positives For example false positives can occur when the geocoder e finds a street that sounds like the input street finds the same street in another city if postal code match is not required finds the street but with a different house number if house number is not required The following settings may achieve a good balance between match rate and precision Close matches only Select this option Close match criteria Select House number and Street only Postal c
28. he middle of a street It compensates for the Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Option Name Offset from corner Units Geocoding Guide for France Chapter 2 Reverse Geocode Address Global Description fact that street level geocoding returns a latitude and longitude point in the center of the street where the address is located Since the building represented by an address is not on the street itself you do not want the geocode for an address to be a point on the street Instead you want the geocode to represent the location of the building which sits next to the street For example an offset of 50 feet means that the geocode will represent a point 50 feet back from the center of the street The distance is calculated perpendicular to the portion of the street segment for the address Offset is also used to prevent addresses across the street from each other from being given the same point The following diagram shows an offset point in relation to the original point Offset ian _Original Point Street coordinates are accurate to 1 10 000 of a degree and interpolated points are accurate to the millionths of a degree Specifies the distance to offset the street end points in street level matching The distance is specified in the units you specify in the Units field This value is used to prevent addresses at street corners from being given the same geocode as the intersection Note Offset is not supported for
29. id Specifies whether to attempt to determine a postal code centroid when an address level geocode cannot be determined Offset from street Indicates the offset distance from the street segments to use in street level geocoding The distance is specified in the units you specify in the Units field The default value varies by country For most countries the default is 7 meters The offset distance is used in street level geocoding to prevent the geocode from being in the middle of a street It compensates for the fact that street level geocoding returns a latitude and longitude point in the center of the street where the address is located Since the building represented by an address is not on the street itself you do not want the geocode for an address to be a point on the street Instead you want the geocode to represent the location of the building which sits next to the street For example an offset of 50 feet means that the geocode will represent a point 50 feet back from the center of the street The distance is calculated perpendicular to the portion of the street segment for the address Offset is also used to prevent addresses across the street from each other from being given the same point The following diagram shows an offset point in relation to the original point Geocoding Guide for France 13 Options 14 Option Name Offset from corner Units Coordinate system Description Offset To _Origin
30. n address reference points on the street segment the S7 point can be adjusted to a more accurate position Single close match with the point located at either the single point associated with an address point candidate or at an address point candidate that shares the same house number No interpolation is required Single close match with the point located at street intersection Interpreting S Result Codes 36 For S street geocoded international result codes eight additional characters describe how closely the address matches an address in the database The characters appear in the order listed in the following table Any non matched components are represented by a dash For example the result code S5 N SCZA represents a single close match that matched the street name street suffix direction town and postcode The dashes indicate that there was no match on house number street prefix direction or thoroughfare type The match came from the Street Range Address database This record would be geocoded at the street address position of the match candidate Category Description Example House number 18 Street prefix direction North Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 3 Result Codes for International Geocoding Category Description Example P is present if any of these conditions are satisfied The candidate pre directional matches the input pre directional The candidate post directional matches the input pre
31. ng street names are equivalent and can both be geocoded as part of an input address Rue du 4 septembre Rue du quatre septembre House numbers with letters House numbers can include letters such as 85B Ave des provinces Postal box BP addresses The geocoder can handle Postal Box Boite Postale addresses For the following input address a close match candidate is returned with a result code of SSHPNTSC A AddressLine1 BP 112 2 Avenue CDG PostalCode 78150 City Le Chesnay Note that in this example the street name CDGis returned as Charles de Gaulle and the postcode is corrected The BP itself is not returned Geocoding Guide for France 9 Input 10 CEDEX addresses The geocoder does not use CEDEX for geocoding but CEDEX will not interfere with geocoding CEDEX can be entered in AddressLine1 City or PostalCode fields The CEDEX itself is not returned but the complete postcode is returned For the following input address a close match candidate is returned with a result code of SSHPNTS A AddressLine1 17 Rue Louise Michel PostalCode 92301 CEDEX City Levallois Perret The postcode is returned but not a postal centroid there is no Z in the ninth position of the return code The CEDEX itself is not returned e Paris address formats and arrondissements Paris addresses typically have a different input format The house number appears after the street name rather than before the street name The
32. not geocode using additional fields but additional field content is returned with each candidate Single Line Input Instead of entering each address element in separate fields you may enter the entire address in the AddressLine1 input field You can enter addresses in these single line formats For all countries except Japan you can enter addresses in one or more of these single line formats Note Not all formats work may work for every country StreetAddress PostalCode City StreetAddress City PostalCode StreetAddress City StreetAddress City StateProvince PostalCode StreetAddress Locality StreetAddress County City PostalCode StreetAddress PostalCode StreetAddress City City PostalCode StreetAddress Where StreetAddress can be house number and street name in either order with street type immediately before or after the street name e City is the city or town e PostalCode is the complete postcode For Brazil Other single line formats may also be acceptable for many countries The matching accuracy for single line input is comparable to that of structured address input The performance of single line input addresses may be slightly slower than that of structured address input For best results use delimiters comma semicolon or colon between each component of the address For example 131 rue de la R publique La D fense If the input address is missing delimiters spaces are recognized as separators an
33. nt suite or lot Unit number The municipality name The meaning of county varies by country FRA France Department The department name The distance from input location in meters If the input coordinates are an exact match for the address the value is 0 31 Output 32 Field Name FirmName Geocoder MatchCode HouseNumber HouseNumberHigh HouseNumberLow HouseNumberParity Language LastLine LeadingDirectional Locality NumberOfCandidateRanges NumberOfRangeUnits PostalCode PostalCode Addon PreAddress PrivateMailbox SegmentCode SegmentParity Description Name of the company or a place name Indicates how closely the input coordinates match the candidate address For more information see Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes on page 38 The building number for the matched location The highest house number of the range in which the address resides The lowest house number of the range in which the address resides Indicates if the house number range contains even or odd numbers or both E Even 0 Odd B Both U Unknown For reverse geocoded candidates the two character language code is returned Complete last address line city state province and postal code Street directional that precedes the street name For example the N in 138 N Main Street The meaning of locality varies by country FRA France Not used Indicates the number of ranges of which th
34. oder For example if a database resource is moved from one directory to another and you update the database resources accordingly Modules gt Enterprise Geocoding gt Tools the database location will be automatically updated in the geocoder The name of one or more database resources to use in the search process Use the database name specified in the Management Console s Database Resources tool You can specify multiple database resources If you specify more than one database list them in order of preference The order of the databases has an effect when there are close match candidates from different databases The close matches that are returned come from the database that is first in the search list Close matches from lower ranked databases are demoted to non close matches You can also use the order of the databases to perform fallback processing if you have an both an address point database and a street level database installed for the country List the address point database first and the street database second If the address cannot be geocoded to the address point level the geocoder will attempt to geocode it to the street level Table 17 Reverse Geocode Address Global Output Fields Field Name Description AddressLine1 AddressLine2 ApartmentLabel ApartmentNumber City County Distance Geocoding Guide for France First line of the address Second line of the address The type of unit such as apartme
35. opyright holder shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization of the copyright holder Geocoding Guide for France 43
36. or a postal code Virtual town names Some areas are generally recognized as cities even though they are not truly administrative cities These areas represent Artificial City Areas or Virtual Towns Since these virtual town names are commonly used by the public they are supported and treated as aliases for any of the encompassed towns Returned candidates have the correct real town in place of the input virtual town Note Virtual town names are supported in TomTom database only The NAVTEQ databases streets or points do not support virtual town names Table 2 Virtual Towns in France Virtual Town Name Encompassed Real Towns D fense La Part of Nanterre Puteaux Courbevoie Sophia Antipolis Part of Valbonne Mougins Vallauris Antibes Biot Cergy Pontoise Menucourt Courdimanche Puiseux Pontoise Osny Pontoise Cergy Vaur al Neuville sur Oise Saint Ouenl Aum ne Jouy le Moutier Eragny Marne la Vall e Bry sur Marne Villiers sur Marne Noisy le Grand Champs sur Marne Emerainville Noisiel Lognes Croissy Beaubourg Torcy Coll gien Ferri res Bussy Saint Georges Bussy Saint Martin Saint Thibault des Vignes Gouvernes Conches Guermantes Jossigny Lagny sur Marne Mont vrain Chanteloup en Brie Serris Chessy Coupvray Magny le Hongre Bailly Romainvilliers Saint Quentin en Yvelines Elancourt Verri re La Trappes Montigny le Bretonneux Guyancourt Voisins le Bretonneux Magnyle Hameau S
37. ountries 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 The last line of the address 9 rue Paul Lafayette 93217 ST DENIS CEDEX The meaning of locality varies by country FRA France Not used The postal code in the appropriate format for the country France uses a five digit postal code You must enter a complete postcode The first two digits usually represent the department The digits 00 represent military addresses and there are also special digit for overseas territories The last three digits represent the local delivery area In the larger cities Paris Lyon Marseille the last two digits represent the arrondissement For example in the postcode 33380 33 is the department 380 is the delivery area The meaning of State Province varies by country FRA France Region Follow these suggestions to ensure that your street input data is in the best format possible for optimal geocoding Geocoding Guide for France Input Address Guidelines for France Follow these guidelines to provide input that Geocode Address Global can successfully geocode For additional information about the French postal system see the La Poste website www laposte com Required fields Addresses must contain either a city
38. overnment Data Provider and Related Notices Data Products contained on this media and used within Pitney Bowes Software applications are protected by various trademarks and by one or more of the following copyrights O Copyright United States Postal Service All rights reserved O 2013 TomTom All rights reserved TomTom and the TomTom logo are registered trademarks of TomTom N V O Copyright NAVTEQ All rights reserved Data 2013 NAVTEQ North America LLC Fuente INEGI Instituto Nacional de Estad stica y Geograf a Based upon electronic data O National Land Survey Sweden O Copyright United States Census Bureau O Copyright Nova Marketing Group Inc Portions of this program are O Copyright 1993 2007 by Nova Marketing Group Inc All Rights Reserved O Copyright Canada Post Corporation This CD ROM contains data from a compilation in which Canada Post Corporation is the copyright owner O 2007 Claritas Inc The Geocode Address World data set contains data licensed from the GeoNames Project www geonames org provided under the Creative Commons Attribution License Attribution License located at http creativecommons org licenses by 3 0 legalcode Your use of the GeoNames data described in the Spectrum Technology Platform User Manual is governed by the terms of the Attribution License and any conflict between your agreement with Pitney Bowes Software Inc and the Attribution License will be resolved in favor of the Attrib
39. ple if a database resource is moved from one directory to another and you update the database resources accordingly Modules gt Enterprise Geocoding gt Tools the database location will be automatically updated in the geocoder The name of one or more database resources to use in the search process Use the database name specified in the Management Console s Database Resources tool You can specify multiple database resources If you specify more than one database list them in order of preference The order of the databases has an effect when there are close match candidates from different databases The close matches that are returned come from the database that is first in the search list Close matches from lower ranked databases are demoted to non close matches Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Option Name Description You can also use the order of the databases to perform fallback processing if you have an both an address point database and a street level database installed for the country List the address point database first and the street database second If the address cannot be geocoded to the address point level the geocoder will attempt to geocode it to the street level Related Links Geocode Address Global on page 5 Output Data Options The following table lists the options that control which data is returned in the output Table 9 Output Data Options Option Name Des
40. r office suite To specify the number of units to return for each range use the Maximum units per range option The postcode for the address The format of the postcode varies by country Postcode data is not available for every country The second part of a postcode This field is not used by most countries Miscellaneous information that appears before the street name Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Field Name Description PrivateMailbox This field is not currently used Ranges This is a list field containing the address ranges that exist on the street segment where the candidate address is located A range is a series of addresses along a street segment For example 5400 5499 Main St is an address range representing addresses in the 5400 block of Main St A range may represent just odd or even addresses within a segment or both odd and even addresses A range may also represent a single building with multiple units such as an apartment building The Ranges field contains the following sub fields Address This is a list filed that contains sub fields for any address elements AddressLine1 City and so on that are different from the candidate s address AdditionalFields A listing of country specific information related to the address The information contained in AdditionalFields varies by country HouseNumberHigh The highest address number for the range HouseNumberLow The lowe
41. recognized by the European Petroleum Survey Group EPSG Each country supports different coordinate systems Depending on the country you have one or more of the following options EPSG 4326 Also known as the WGS84 coordinate system EPSG 27200 Also known as the NZGD49 coordinate system Matching options let you set match restrictions fallback and multiple match settings so that the matching can be as strict or relaxed as you need The strictest matching conditions require an exact match on house number street name postal code and no fallback to postal code centroids The geocoder looks for an exact street address match within the postal code in the input address Relaxing the conditions broadens the area in which it searches for a match For example by relaxing the postal code the geocoder searches for candidates outside the postal code but within the city of your input address Table 7 Default Matching Options Option Name Description Keep multiple matches Return ranges Maximum ranges per candidate Maximum units per range Geocoding Guide for France Specifies whether to return results when the address matches to multiple candidates in the database If this option is not selected an address that results in multiple candidates will fail to geocode If you select this option specify the maximum number of candidates to return next to the check box Specify 1 minus one to return all possible candidates
42. reetDataType Geocoding Guide for France Chapter 1 Geocode Address Global Description The result was generated by using address point data to modify the candidates segment data The default search order rank of the database used to geocode the address A value of 1 indicates that the database is first in the default search order 2 indicates that the database is second in the default search order and so on The default database search order is specified in the Management Console with the Database Resources tool 25 Reverse Geocode Address Global Reverse Geocode Address Global determines the address for a given latitude longitude point Reverse Geocode Address Global can determine addresses in many countries The countries available to you depends on which country databases you have installed For example if you have databases for Canada Italy and Australia installed Reverse Geocode Address Global would be able to geocode addresses in these countries in a single stage Note Reverse Geocode Address Global does not support U S addresses To geocode U S addresses use Reverse Geocode US Location Before you can work with Reverse Geocode Address Global you must define a global database resource containing a database for one or more countries Once you create the database resource a Reverse Geocode Address Global will become available in the Management Console Enterprise Designer and Interactive Driver Reverse G
43. se match for street intersections 38 Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Chapter 3 Result Codes for International Geocoding e ND Spectrum Technology Platform could not find the geocoding database for the given postal code or municipality state province Geocoding Guide for France 39 Notices 42 2013 Pitney Bowes Software Inc All rights reserved MapInfo and Group 1 Software are trademarks of Pitney Bowes Software Inc All other marks and trademarks are property of their respective holders USPS Notices Pitney Bowes Inc holds a non exclusive license to publish and sell ZIP 4 databases on optical and magnetic media The following trademarks are owned by the United States Postal Service CASS CASS Certified DPV eLOT FASTforward First Class Mail Intelligent Mail LACS NCOA PAVE PLANET Code Postal Service POSTNET Post Office RDI Suite United States Postal Service Standard Mail United States Post Office USPS ZIP Code and ZIP 4 This list is not exhaustive of the trademarks belonging to the Postal Service Pitney Bowes Inc is a non exclusive licensee of USPS for NCOAL 0 processing Prices for Pitney Bowes Software s products options and services are not established controlled or approved by USPS or United States Government When utilizing RDI data to determine parcel shipping costs the business decision on which parcel delivery company to use is not made by the USPS or United States G
44. st address number for the range SegmentParity Indicates the side of the street where the range is located One of the following 0 It is not known which side of the street the range is located on 1 The range is on the left side of the street 2 The range is on the right side of the street HouseNumberParity Indicates whether the range contains odd or even address numbers One of the following 0 The range contains both odd and even address numbers 1 The range contains odd address numbers 2 The range contains even address numbers 1 It is not known whether the range contains odd or even house numbers TotalRangeUnitsReturned The number of unit ranges returned for the address A unit is an address within a building such as an apartment or suite Geocoding Guide for France 21 Output Field Name SegmentCode SegmentParity StateProvince StreetDataType StreetName StreetPrefix StreetSuffix TrailingDirectional UnitNumberHigh UnitNumberLow 22 Description RangeUnits A list of the ranges of units within the building An example of units are apartments or suites Address This is a list filed that contains sub fields for any address elements AddressLine1 City and so on that are different from the candidate s address UnitNumberHigh The highest unit number UnitNumberLow The lowest unit number A unique ID that identifies a street segment Indicates which side of the stre
45. tes that the database is second in the default search order and so on The default database search order is specified in the Management Console with the Database Resources tool For most countries this contains the street name The type of street when the street type appears before the base street name The street type of the matched location For example AVE for Avenue Street directional that follows the street name The highest unit number of the range in which the unit resides The lowest unit number of the range in which the unit resides The exact latitude longitude coordinates of the candidate which may be different than the input coordinates 33 Result Codes for International Geocoding Candidates returned by Spectrum geocoders return another class of return codes that are referred to as International Geocoding Result Codes Each attempted match returns a result code in the Geocoder MatchCode output field In this section e International Street Geocoding Result Codes S Codes 36 e Interpreting S Result CodeS oooooomoo 36 e International Postal Geocoding Result Codes Z Codes 37 e International Geographic Geocoding Result Codes G Codes ee EE EELER EES eben E aes 38 e Reverse Geocoding Codes R Codes 38 e Non match Codes 20 e eee eee o 38 International Street Geocoding Result Codes S Codes International Street Geocoding Result Codes S Codes Street l
46. that are close match candidates For example if there are 10 candidates and two of them are close candidates and you enable this option only the two close matching candidates would be returned instead of all 10 To specify what is considered a close match use the Close match criteria options Address candidates are ranked according to how closely the input address matches these preferences Specifies how to determine whether a candidate is a close match One of the following Custom This option allows you to specify which parts of a candidate address must match the input address to be considered a close match Use the Close match criteria check boxes to specify the address elements you want This is the default value for most countries Relaxed All candidate addresses are considered a close match Specifies whether candidates must match all non blank input fields to be considered a close match For example if an input address contains a city and postal code then candidates for this address must match the city and postal code to be considered a close match Specifies whether candidates must match the house number to be considered a close match If you select this option you should also require an exact match on street name This option does not significantly affect performance It does however affect the type of match if the candidate address corresponds to a segment that does not contain any ranges The type of match can also be af
47. the United Kingdom GBR or Japan JPN The default value varies by country 12 meters Australia AUS Austria AUT Germany DEU 7 meters For other supported countries the default offset is 7 meters The following diagram compares the end points of a street to offset end points Solo 99 Street Segment End With Corner Offset Street Segment End Specifies the unit of measurement for the street offset and corner offset options One of the following Note Offset is not supported for the United Kingdom GBR or Japan JPN 29 Options Option Name Description Feet e Miles e Meters Kilometers The default is Meters Coordinate system A coordinate system is a reference system for the unique location of a point in space Cartesian planar and Geodetic geographical coordinates are examples of reference systems based on Euclidean geometry Spectrum Technology Platform supports systems recognized by the European Petroleum Survey Group EPSG Each country supports different coordinate systems Depending on the country you have one or more of the following options EPSG 4326 Also known as the WGS84 coordinate system EPSG 27200 Also known as the NZGD49 coordinate system Matching Options Table 15 Default Matching Options Option Name Description Keep multiple matches Specifies whether to return results when the coordinates match to multiple candidat
48. ution License solely as it relates to your use of the GeoNames data ICU Notices Copyright 1995 2011 International Business Machines Corporation and others All rights reserved Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so provided that the above Spectrum Technology Platform 9 0 Copyright copyright notice s and this permission notice appear in all copies of the Software and that both the above copyright notice s and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR HOLDERS INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE BE LIABLE FORANY CLAIM ORANY SPECIAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE Except as contained in this notice the name of a c

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