Geographic Geocoding

Geocode Address World can geocode to the centroid of an administrative division (such as town or village).

Geocode Address World can geocode to the geographic level if these conditions are met:
  • Your input addresses contains accurate geographic information without valid postcode address content in the input. If the address in question includes valid postcode input, then Geocode Address World will attempt postal geocoding.
  • The data source contains geographic level information for the country. Geographic information can come from any of the data sources (TomTom, GeoNames, or Pitney Bowes).
  • Country name or ISO country codes are not required, but if included, they must be matched. Including the country name may produce better close matches.

Geographic Geocoding to City

In this example, the input address includes the city (City) of Vaihingen an der Enz. The country is not specified in this example. The street address information (street name and number) is ignored for the purposed of geographic geocoding.

Muldenweg 2
Vaihingen an der Enz

Geocode Address World returns a G3 close match candidate. Even though the country was not specified, Geocode Address World identifies one close match in Germany (DEU).

StateProvince: Baden-Württemberg
County: Ludwigsburg
City: Vaihingen an der Enz
Country: DEU
Result Code: G3
X: 8.95948
Y: 48.930059

Geographic Geocoding with Common City Name

In this example, the input address includes the city (City) of Venice. This city name occurs in a number of countries, but the country is not specified on input.

St Marks Plaza
Venice

Geocode Address World selects Venice, Italy as the close match candidate because of its large population (approximately 270,000) and because Venice is the administrative capital of the Veneto region of Italy. A number of non-close matches may also be returned for cities of Venice in other countries. The close match candidate for Venice, ITA is:

StateProvince: Veneto
County: Venezia
City: Venice
Country: ITA
Result Code: G3
X: 12.33878
Y: 45.43434

Geographic Geocoding with State/Province Abbreviation

In this example the input address includes the city name of Rome and GA, which is the abbreviation for the state of Georgia in the USA. See State or Province Abbreviations to see the countries for which state/province abbreviations are recognized. Because the state abbreviation is used, it is not necessary to specify the country name.

Rome, GA

Geocode Address World considers the StateProvince and returns a close match for Rome, Georgia USA. Even though Rome, Italy is a much larger city and is the capital of Italy, that is returned as a non-close candidate because the StateProvince (GA) that was specified on input

StateProvince: Georgia
County: Floyd
City: Rome
Country: USA
Result Code: G3
X: -85.16467
Y: 34.25704

Geographic Geocoding to Locality

In this example, the input address includes the locality of Altamira and province abbreviation of GRO Geocode Address World recognizes the state abbreviation of GRO, so the country name is not necessary.

City: Altamira
StateProvince: GRO

In this example, Geocode Address World returns a close match to Locality) of Altamira even if Altamira was input as City. The (StateProvince) of GRO is also returned. If Guerrero is entered as StateProvince then Guerrero is returned.

StateProvince: GRO
City: ACAPULCO DE JUÁREZ
Locality: ALTAMIRA
Country: MEX
Result Code: G4
X: 99.87984
Y: 16.87637

Address input can be formatted into separate input fields or input can be unformatted (single line input). Geocoding of unformatted input is shown in Single Line Input.