North American Address Locator
Collection: Basemap
Service Name: TA_Address_NA_10
Description: The North American Address Locator enables you to geocode street addresses in North America. The locator is a composite geocoder that supports multiple levels of geocoding. The following levels of geocoding are supported in the USA: street address point, street address, street name, ZIP Code, ZIP+4, and city/state. The following levels of geocoding are supported in Canada: address point, street address, street name, postal code, and city/province.
The locator is based on NAVTEQ Q4 2010 reference data for North America and is limited to the coverage for the United States and Canada.
The locator accepts both single-line and multiline input addresses. The locator can be used to geocode and reverse geocode single addresses or batch geocode multiple addresses.
The data used in the service is in Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) WGS84.
Attribution: Copyright:© 2011 Esri, NAVTEQ
Directory Size: 10.3 GB
Number of Files: 39
Technical Notes:
Single-line address input does not require comma delimiters (for example, 18 Orchard St Madison WI 53715).
Locations can be searched based on a spatial offset of the address (for example, 500 feet NW from 150 Linden Ave NE).
Missing address components are not penalized.
In Batch Mode there will be no fallback on State locator.
Locators:
The North American Address Locator is a composite locator that references twelve locators. Each attribute listed below is in one or more of these locators as defined for the attribute below. For example, if you use the ZIP attribute, it will only be returned for the US_Zipcode locator. A valid result will not be returned in the response unless the specific locator for an attribute was used in the request. The twelve locators are:
- US_RoofTop: Used for finding latitude and longitude of a U.S. building
- US_Streets: Used for finding street addresses in the U.S. (for example, 380 New York Street, Redlands, California)
- US_ZIP4: Used for finding a U.S. ZIP+4 Code (for example, 92373-8100)
- US_StreetName: Used for finding a street name in the U.S. (for example, New York Street, Redlands, California)
- US_Zipcode: Used for finding a U.S. ZIP Code (for example, 92373)
- US_State: Used for finding a state name in the U.S. (for example, California)
- US_CityState: Used for finding a U.S. city/state (for example, Redlands, CA)
- CAN_Rooftop: Used for finding latitude and longitude of a building in Canada
- CAN_Streets: Used for finding street addresses in Canada (for example, 12 Concorde Place, Toronto, Ontario)
- CAN_StreetName: Used for finding a street name in Canada (Concorde Place, Toronto, Ontario)
- CAN_Postcode: Used for finding a postal code in Canada (M3C 3R8)
- CAN_CityProv: Used for finding a city/province in Canada (for example, Calgary, Alberta)
Candidate sorting:
Candidate results are sorted using multiple fields in the following sequence:
- Locator Name (Loc_name): Sorted in order of individual locators in the composite locator with the most accurate locator first and the least accurate last. For U.S.: a) US_RoofTop, b) US_Streets, c) US_ZIP4, d) US_StreetName, e) US_Zipcode, f) US_State, and g) US_CityState. For Canada: a) CAN_RoofTop, b) CAN_Streets, c) CAN_StreetName, d) CAN_Postcode, and e) CAN_CityProv.
- Shape: Geometry of the output.
- Score: A value assigned to all potential candidates of an address match. The match score is based on how well the location found in the reference data matches with the address being searched.
- Match_addr: The corresponding address in the reference data for the candidate point
- House: Returns the house number for the Address Point Locator.
- Side: The side of the street to which the candidate has been matched: Left (L) or Right (R).
- PreDir: Prefix of N(orth), E(ast), S(outh) or W(est) that precedes the street name (for example, for 123 N Main Street, 'N' is the PreDir).
- PreType: Includes tag words like Freeway, Fwy, Highway, Interstate, I, and so on, which may precede a number in the StreetName field (for example, for Interstate 10, the PreType field would contain 'Interstate' and the StreetName field would contain '10'). PreType may also include words like 'New' or 'Old' as in New Main Street or Old County Road.
- StreetName: The name of the candidate street.
- SufType: The type of street, such as Avenue, Street, Boulevard, and so on.
- SufDir: Suffix of NE, NW, SE, or SW, which follows the street name (for example, for 123 Main Street NE, 'NE' is the SufDir).
- City: Name of the candidate city. This field is used only for US_CityState or CAN_CityProv. City is also returned as an output field for US_Zip4 locator.
- State: Name of the candidate state. This field is used only for US_CityState. State is also returned as an output field for US_Zip4 locator.
- ZIP: ZIP Code for the candidate. This field is used only for US_Zip4 or US_Zipcode.
- X: Longitude of candidate point.
- Y: Latitude of candidate point.
- Disp_Lon: This field is returned by the Address Points locator. The geocoded point is located where the driveway meets the street. Disp_Lon represents the longitude of the centroid of either the building or parcel to which a given address is associated and will not be directly located on a street segment.
- Disp_Lat: This field is returned by the Address Points locator. The geocoded point is located where the driveway meets the street. Disp_Lat represents the latitude of the centroid of either the building or parcel to which a given address is associated and will not be directly located on a street segment.
- Street_ID: This field is returned by the Street Address and Address Points locators and contains the unique ID number for the street on which any given address is located.
- Addr_Type: Indicates the type of address match (for example, Address indicates that the match type is Address Point or Street Address). Postal Indicates that match type is Zip or Zip5. StreetName, City & State are other address type values.
- From Addr: This is the lower limit of an address range for any given segment of a street in the reference data.
- To Addr: This is the upper limit of an address range for any given segment of a street in the reference data.
- User_fld: When building a locator, the user has the option to return one extra field from the reference data. This field will not be used for locating an address, but to return extra information from the reference data. When geocoding, this information will be returned in user_fld.
- Province: The province of the candidate point. This field is used only for CAN_CityProv.
- Postal: Returns the postal code for Canadian addresses.
- ZIP4: ZIP4 of the candidate point. This field is used only for US_Zip4.
- Zip4_Type: The type of centroid identified by the US_Zip4 locator. Type 1 indicates a Zip+4 centroid (more accurate); Type 2 indicates a Zip+2 centroid (less accurate).
- Ldu: The LDU reveals a specific delivery point, such as a building, a large-volume receiver of mail, or a range of addresses on a street for Canadian addresses.
- Xmin: Minimum extent when matched to a U.S. city or U.S. state.
- Xmax: Maximum extent when matched to a U.S. city or U.S. state.
- Ymin: Minimum extent when matched to a U.S. city or U.S. state.
- Ymax: Maximum extent when matched to a U.S. city or U.S. state.