Custom Preferences

Custom preferences supported by the Reverse Geocode Service are for use against any country dataset. Other custom fields that apply to certain countries are located in Custom Preferences and Fields.

To create a custom preference for a POST request, follow this code snippet.

"preferences" : {
            "customPreferences" : {
            "<YOUR_CUSTOM_PREFERENCE>" : "true"
            }


Parameter	Type	Description
POST: FALLBACK_TO_WORLD	String	When World Places is installed, the reverse geocoder specifies whether to use World Places to determine a geocode when any of the following conditions exist: A country geocoder is not installed The country geocoder does not return a reverse geocode candidate World Places may return either a postal or geographic geocode depending on the level of support in the dataset. Optional. true Use World Places Geocoder for matching when either no reverse geocode candidate is returned by the country geocoder or there is no country geocoder present. false Do not use World Places Geocoder. Default. The customPreferences object is specified in the preferences object. see example at the top of this table.