Geocodes

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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
* Northern Ireland is POSTCODE accuracy

BUILDING*

United States

BUILDING

Uruguay

BUILDING

Viet Nam

BUILDING

Virgin Islands, U.S.

BUILDING