Pitney Bowes MapMarker USA - Manual (Page 17)

Chapter 1:
MapMarker Features
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User Guide
Geographic Geocoding
If the input address consists of a valid combination of city and state, but no further address
information, you can still geocode to the city centroid. You can also fallback to Geographic
geocoding if a street level match was not possible.
MapMarker USA can interpret addresses that refer to official (gazetted) or unofficial locality names,
but will always return the official locality name in the address cleansing process.
Addresses that are geocoded to a geography return a G result code. See Geographic Matches (G
category) for a description of G result codes.
Reverse Geocoding
With reverse geocoding, you can provide X/Y (Longitude/Latitude) coordinates and MapMarker USA
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Reverse geocoding is available with the Developer (Server) edition only (not with the
Desktop application). See the Developer Guide for relevant information on reverse
geocoding.
You can perform reverse geocoding using street segment or point address dictionaries or a user
dictionary.
Addresses that are reverse geocoded return an RS result code. See Chapter 6 Result Codes for a
description of all result codes.
Address Dictionaries
The default Address Dictionary is based on TomTom ® Street data and USPS sources. This includes
millions of American street addresses and placenames with corresponding address range, street
geometry and postal code data and is used for matching addresses and assigning coordinates
during the geocoding process. This Address Dictionary can be purchased and licensed for all of
USA or for individual regions.
A number of other street range and point-based Address Dictionaries are available. See the
MapMarker USA Release Notes provided with your product. These Release Notes and other
documentation are also located at the Pitney Bowes Software
Product Documentation site for
information on the available Address Dictionaries and data vintages for your version of MapMarker
USA.
Multiple File Formats as Input Data
MapMarker USA reads any MapInfo table (TAB format), CSV, delimited text files (TXT), fixed-width
text files, or any dBASE (DBF) format table. MapMarker supports multiple character sets for dBASE
files.