Geocodes
What are Geocodes?
Geocodes allow you to retrieve geographic information related to an address that you retrieve from our service.
Note: Geocodes are only available in Plus and Enterprise plans.
We source location information from our global data suppliers, including Ordnance Survey UK and TomTom, and combine this information with our address data to provide location and associated accuracy for every address we capture.
A sample result is shown below:
"location": {
"latitude": 40.863013,
"longitude": -73.922423,
"crs": "EPSG:4326",
"accuracy": "BUILDING"
}
The term "CRS" stands for Coordinate Reference System. In our location data, we consistently provide a latitude and a longitude coordinate. Here, "EPSG:4326" is the designation for latitude and longitude in the WGS84 system — a standard recognized worldwide by navigation systems, Google Maps, and similar platforms.
How reliable is this data?
The accuracy parameter indicates the accuracy of the returned coordinate, with the majority of our location information available at BUILDING (rooftop) level. Where rooftop accuracy isn't available for an address we return a coordinate with less accuracy as per the table below.
Accuracy | Description |
---|---|
BUILDING | Rooftop accuracy |
STREET | If we don't yet have a building coordinate for an address, but we do have coordinates for other addresses on that street, then we assign the address a street level accurate location. |
POSTCODE | We have building level coordinates for the vast majority of addresses in UK and Netherlands, however some newer addresses may be missing a building level coordinate. As UK and Netherlands postcodes are small enough to provide accurate location information, we return the coordinates of the centroid of the postcode. |
LOCALITY | For bigger postcodes (e.g. Zip codes), City level accuracy, etc. we return an accuracy of LOCALITY. |
For some countries we can also provide coordinate information in their local map projection, e.g. we can return Easting, Northing in UK National Grid.
A full list of the location accuracy for our countries is provided in the table at the bottom of this article.
How do I get Geocodes for an Address?
Geocodes are returned in the Lookup if you choose if from the Data tab in your integrations settings.
Toggle on the check-box for location, and any other data you want returned with the address.
Location Accuracy by Country
Country | Location Accuracy |
---|---|
Åland Islands | BUILDING |
Algeria | BUILDING |
Andorra | STREET |
Argentina | BUILDING |
Armenia | BUILDING |
Australia | BUILDING |
Austria | BUILDING |
Azerbaijan | BUILDING |
Bahrain | BUILDING |
Belarus | BUILDING |
Belgium | BUILDING |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BUILDING |
Brazil | BUILDING |
Brunei Darussalam | BUILDING |
Bulgaria | BUILDING |
Cambodia | BUILDING |
Canada | BUILDING |
Chile | BUILDING |
Colombia | BUILDING |
Croatia | BUILDING |
Cyprus | BUILDING |
Czech Republic | BUILDING |
Denmark | BUILDING |
Ecuador | BUILDING |
Egypt | BUILDING |
Estonia | BUILDING |
Faroe Islands | BUILDING |
Finland | BUILDING |
France | BUILDING |
French Guiana | BUILDING |
Georgia | BUILDING |
Germany | BUILDING |
Greece | BUILDING |
Guadeloupe | BUILDING |
Guam | STREET |
Guernsey | POSTCODE |
Hong Kong | BUILDING |
Hungary | BUILDING |
Iceland | BUILDING |
India | BUILDING |
Indonesia | BUILDING |
Ireland | BUILDING |
Isle of Man | POSTCODE |
Israel | BUILDING |
Italy | BUILDING |
Jersey | POSTCODE |
Jordan | BUILDING |
Kazakhstan | BUILDING |
Kosovo | BUILDING |
Kuwait | BUILDING |
Kyrgyzstan | BUILDING |
Lao People's Democratic Republic | BUILDING |
Latvia | BUILDING |
Lebanon | BUILDING |
Liechtenstein | BUILDING |
Lithuania | BUILDING |
Luxembourg | BUILDING |
Macao | BUILDING |
Malaysia | BUILDING |
Martinique | BUILDING |
Mayotte | BUILDING |
Mexico | STREET |
Moldova, Republic of | BUILDING |
Monaco | STREET |
Morocco | BUILDING |
Myanmar | BUILDING |
Namibia | BUILDING |
Netherlands | BUILDING |
New Zealand | BUILDING |
North Macedonia | BUILDING |
Norway | BUILDING |
Paraguay | BUILDING |
Peru | BUILDING |
Philippines | BUILDING |
Poland | BUILDING |
Portugal | BUILDING |
Puerto Rico | STREET |
Qatar | BUILDING |
Réunion | BUILDING |
Romania | BUILDING |
Russian Federation | BUILDING |
San Marino | BUILDING |
Saudi Arabia | BUILDING |
Serbia | BUILDING |
Singapore | BUILDING |
Slovakia | BUILDING |
Slovenia | BUILDING |
South Africa | BUILDING |
Spain | BUILDING |
Sweden | BUILDING |
Switzerland | BUILDING |
Taiwan, Province of China | BUILDING |
Tajikistan | BUILDING |
Thailand | BUILDING |
Tunisia | BUILDING |
Turkey | BUILDING |
Ukraine | BUILDING |
United Arab Emirates | BUILDING |
United Kingdom | BUILDING* |
United States | BUILDING |
Uruguay | BUILDING |
Viet Nam | BUILDING |
Virgin Islands, U.S. | BUILDING |