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International Geocoding Data Version April 2019 Release Notes This document contains information about worldwide datasets for use in Spectrum Technology Platform geocoding modules and the Global Geocoding SDK. You have access only to the modules or products you have licensed. Contact your Pitney Bowes account executive for a trial license key for other modules or products. Contents: What's New 2 Datasets By Country 6 Bug Fixes 19 Data Setup 20

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  • International Geocoding Data Version April 2019

    Release Notes This document contains information about worldwide datasets for use in Spectrum™ Technology Platform geocoding modules and the Global Geocoding SDK. You have access only to the modules or products you have licensed. Contact your Pitney Bowes account executive for a trial license key for other modules or products.

    Contents:

    What's New 2 Datasets By Country 6 Bug Fixes 19 Data Setup 20

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    What's New

    This release supports new datasets, provides reverse geocodes to world boundaries, and includes some postal formatting changes and bug fixes.

    New Datasets

    New datasets are listed below. For a list of all available datasets, see Datasets By Country on page 6.

    Country Code Country Product Code Precision (ISO3)

    Address Points AR4ArgentinaARG

    Address Points BG4BulgariaBGR

    Street Interpolated HR2CroatiaHRV

    Address Points HR4CroatiaHRV

    Street Interpolated HU2HungaryHUN

    Address Points HU4HungaryHUN

    Address Points ID4IndonesiaIDN

    Address Points PL4PolandPOL

    Address Points RU3RussiaRUS

    Address Points SI4SloveniaSVN

    Street Interpolated TH2ThailandTHA

    Address Points TH4ThailandTHA

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    Country Code Country Product Code Precision (ISO3)

    8RW World Geocoder - Reverse (World

    Boundary)

    ~ Currently, only supported on GGS; see below.

    New Australia Master Location Data (MLD)

    AU7 for Master Location Data (MLD), is an address point level dataset for AUSTRALIA that delivers the highest precision coordinates. When using the Spectrum GeoEnrichment Module, Master Location Data for Australia adds a pbKey™ unique identifier to each address and named location to simplify linking to many Pitney Bowes and third party datasets. This helps to unlock a wealth of rich attributable information.

    Postal Code Formatting Changes

    Global Postal Code Standard: Brazil (BRA), Japan (JPN), and the Czech Republic (CZE) now adhere to the standard (typically noticed when spaces or hyphens are used in the postal code).

    Examples: Geocoder now returns the postal code like this:

    • Brazil's format: XXXXX-XXX; 27515 becomes 27515-000 • Czech Republic's format: XXX XX; 71600 becomes 716 00 • Japan's format: XXX-XXXX; 0788334 becomes 078-8334

    Resultcode Changes

    Brazil:

    • When street geocoding a 5-digit input postalCode that matches to a candidate with a full 8-digit postalCode and the first 5 digits match, the resultCode no longer displays a "Z". For example an input address with postCode 27510 and a candidate with postCode 27510101 will not have a Z in the resultCode.

    • Improved accuracy on the matches, reducing false positives

    Thailand:

    The H in the resultCode is now determined by considering both the plot and house. The combination also factors in the absence of the plot. The scenarios below highlight the impact on the resultCode.

    Table 1: H Status By Scenario

    Input Plot and House Candidate Plot and House H Status

    HHouse only - house matches House Only

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    Input Plot and House Candidate Plot and House H Status

    No H House only - house doesn't match House Only

    No H Plot and House - house matches House Only

    No H Plot and House - house doesn't match House Only

    HPlot and House - both match Plot and House

    No H Plot and House – Only house matches Plot and House

    No H Plot and House – Neither matches Plot and House

    No H House only – house matches Plot and House

    Updates to Postal Geocode Output

    When doing a postal geocode or when the fallback level is set to "Fallback to Postal", we return postaltown or town on output. Applies to Australia (AUS), Belgium (BEL), Brazil (BRA), Spain (ESP), France (FRA), Great Britain (GBR), India (IND), Italy (ITA), Japan (JPN), Luxembourg (LUX), Mexico (MEX), New Zealand (NZL), Peru (PER), Puerto Rico (PRI), Russia (RUS), Singapore (SGP), South Africa( ZAF), and United Arab Emirates (ARE).

    Update to Peru (PER) formatted street address and formatted location address. The Formatted Street Addresss has been modified to contain Street Address, Locality (as opposed to just Street Address). The Formatted Location Address has been modified to contain Postcode Province (as opposed to Postcode Locality).

    (GGS-specific) Get reverse geocodes to world boundaries

    The new World Geocoder Reverse data set allows you to obtain reverse geocodes to world boundaries. The data includes administrative-level boundaries (state or province, district, town, locality and sub-locality) for countries all over the world (as well as a limited number of postal centroid boundaries).

    If the data is available, and you have selected fallback to geographic or fallback to postal, you will get candidates (where available) from the new data set in one of these scenarios:

    • Input country is given as “XWG” • A street level reverse geocode was attempted, but no candidate was found. (Either no data is

    available for that country, or the point was too far from a street to find a street candidate).

    Related precision codes:

    • Postal-level reverse geocode in XWG returns “RZ”.

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    • Geographic-level reverse geocode returns one of the following:

    • RG0 – country level (typically only used for small island countries where no other administrative divisions are in the data)

    • RG1 – state or province level, corresponds to G1 in forward geocoding • RG2 – district (state or province subdivision) level, corresponds to G2 in forward geocoding • RG3 – city or town level , corresponds to G3 in forward geocoding • RG4 – locality (city/town subdivision) , corresponds to G4 in forward geocoding • RG5 – locality subdivision

    Improved handling of Japanese descriptors (GUN, CHO, MACHI) when attached

    For Japanese addresses, there may not be a separator between the name and the designator like MINAMIHOMMACHI. These records typically fail to geocode. Geocoder now looks for one of these descriptors (GUN, CHO, or MACHI) and inserts a hyphen before the descriptor, allowing the records to geocode successfully.

    Enhancements in Geographic Matching for Mexico

    Added SN as an alias for SAN and can now find matches for entries like SN ANDRES CHO, SN PEDRO TAPA, SN SALVADOR, SN SEB TECOMA, SN VICENTE EM, SN CRISTOBAL, and SN FELIPE DE

    Additional Resources

    See the PB Geocoding Support site for additional information including user guides, developer guides, and database and software release notes.

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    https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/support/products/software/geocoding-support.html

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    Datasets By Country

    This table lists a number of characteristics about the country datasets provided in the April 2019 data refresh, including maximum precision, availability of postal data, and supported language. The refresh vintage is 201903.

    Use these datasets for geocoding with Enterprise Geocoding Module. Interactive datasets are identified by a ✓ in the Interactive column. These are companion datasets for performing type ahead interactive geocoding with the Global Interactive Geocoding stage (available in the Global Geocoding Module beginning with version 12.0 SP2 of the Spectrum™ Technology Platform) and from the Global Geocoding API v2.0.

    Note: Occasionally a dataset may undergo a change, such as a new product code or vendor, that results in a new label for the SPD. This change will be noted in the table below for the impacted dataset(s). If you had the old dataset configured in your database you will need to re-configure it in Management Console to pick up the new label. If you have previously used the old dataset in a dataflow, you must now re-align the dataflow with the new dataset label. In Enterprise Designer double-click on the geocoding stage that uses the dataset. In the Options dialog, check the Override default options, then check and uncheck the Override the default database search list. This will refresh the dataset list with the name of the new dataset.

    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    ALB Albania AL1 ✓ Street Centroid No Albanian

    DZA Algeria DZ1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    AND Andorra ES1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    AGO Angola AO1 ✓ Street Centroid No Portuguese

    ARG Argentina AR2 Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    ARG Argentina AR1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    ARG Argentina AR4 Address Points No English

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    ABW Aruba AW2 ✓ Street Centroid No Dutch

    AUS Australia AU5 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    AUS Australia AU7 ✓ Address Points Yes English

    AUT Austria AT1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes German

    AUT Austria AT3 Address Points Yes German

    AUT Austria AT7 Address Points Yes German

    BHS Bahamas BS2 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    BHR Bahrain BH1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    BRB Barbados BB2 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    BLR Belarus BY1 ✓ Street Centroid No Cyrillic, latinized Cyrillic

    BEL Belgium BE3 ✓ Address Points Yes Dutch, French, German

    BEL Belgium BE7 Address Points Yes Dutch, French, German

    BEL Belgium, BE1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Dutch, Luxembourg French,

    German

    BLZ Belize BZ2 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    BEN Benin BJ1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    BMU Bermuda BM2 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    BOL Bolivia BO2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    BIH Bosnia and BA1 ✓ Street Centroid No Bosnian Herzegovina

    BWA Botswana BW1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    BRA Brazil BR1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Portuguese

    BRA Brazil BR4 Address Points Yes Portuguese

    BRN Brunei Darussalam BN1 ✓ Street Centroid Yes Malay

    BGR Bulgaria BG1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Bulgarian latinized Bulgarian

    BGR Bulgaria BG4 Address Points No English

    BFA Burkina Faso BF1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    BDI Burundi BI1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    CMR Cameroon CM1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    CAN Canada CA1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English, French

    CAN Canada CA3 Address Points Yes English, French

    CAN Canada CA4 Address Points Yes English, French

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    CAN Canada CA8 ✓ MLD Yes English, French

    CHL Chile CL1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    CHN China CN1 Street Centroid Yes latinized Chinese

    CHN China CN6 ✓ Street Centroid Yes Simplified Chinese, latinized Chinese

    COL Colombia CO1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Spanish

    COL Colombia CO4 Address Points No Spanish

    COG Congo-Brazzaville CG1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    COD Congo-Kinshasa CD1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    CRI Costa-Rica CR2 ✓ Street Interpolated No Spanish

    HRV Croatia HR1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Croatian

    HRV Croatia HR2 Street Interpolated No English

    HRV Croatia HR4 Address Points No English

    CUB Cuba CU2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    CYP Cyprus CY1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Greek, latinized Greek

    CZE Czech Republic CZ1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Czech

    CZE Czech Republic CZ3 Address Points Yes Czech

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    DNK Denmark DK3 Address Points Yes Danish

    DNK Denmark DK1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Danish

    DOM Dominican Republic DO2 ✓ Street Centroid Yes Spanish

    ECU Ecuador EC2 ✓ Street Interpolated No Spanish

    EGY Egypt EG1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    SLV El Salvador SV2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    EST Estonia EE1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Estonian

    FIN Finland FI1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Finnish

    FRA France FR1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes French

    FRA France FR2 Street Interpolated Yes French

    FRA France FR3 Address Points Yes French

    GAB Gabon GA1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    DEU Germany DE1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes German

    DEU Germany DE3 Address Points Yes German

    GHA Ghana GH1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    GRC Greece GR1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Greek, latinized Greek

    GTM Guatemala GT2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    GUY Guyana GY2 ✓ Street Centroid Yes English

    HND Honduras HN2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    HKG Hong Kong HK1 ✓ Street Interpolated N/A latinized Chinese

    HKG Hong Kong HK3 Address Points N/A latinized Chinese

    HKG Hong Kong HK7 Address Points N/A Traditional Chinese, latinized Chinese

    HUN Hungary HU1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Hungarian

    HUN Hungary HU2 Street Interpolated No English

    HUN Hungary HU4 Address Points No English

    ISL Iceland IS1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Icelandic

    IND India IN5 Street Interpolated Yes English

    IND India IN1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    IND India IN3 Address Points Yes English

    IDN Indonesia ID1 2 Street Centroid Yes Indonesian

    IDN Indonesia ID4 Address Points No English

    IRQ Iraq IQ1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country 2 Vendor change. This affects dataflows that used the previous ID1 dataset. See this note for more

    information.

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    IRL Ireland IE1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    IRL Ireland IE3 Address Points Yes English

    ISR Israel IL2 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes latinized Hebrew

    ISR Israel IL4 Address Points Yes latinized Hebrew

    ITA Italy IT4 Address Points Yes Italian

    ITA Italy IT1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Italian

    ITA Italy IT3 Address Points Yes Italian

    JAM Jamaica JM2 ✓ Street Centroid Yes English

    JPN Japan JP7 ✓ Address Points Yes Japanese, latinized

    JOR Jordan JO1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    KEN Kenya KE1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    KOR Korea KR7 ✓ Address Points Yes latinized Korean

    XKX Kosovo XK1 ✓ Street Centroid Yes English

    KWT Kuwait KW1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    LVA Latvia LV1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Latvian

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    LBN Lebanon LB1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    LSO Lesotho LS1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    LIE Liechtenstein CH1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Dutch, French, German

    LTU Lithuania LT1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Lithuanian

    MAC Macau MO1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Portuguese

    MKD Macedonia MK1 ✓ Street Centroid Yes English

    MWI Malawi MW1 ✓ Street Centroid No Malay

    MYS Malaysia MY1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Malay

    MYS Malaysia MY3 ✓ Points, POI Yes Malay

    MYS Malaysia MY5 ✓ Address Points Yes Malay

    MYS Malaysia MY5 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Malay

    MLI Mali ML1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    MLT Malta MT1 ✓ Street Centroid No Maltese

    MTQ Martinique FR2 Street Interpolated Yes French

    MRT Mauritania MR1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    MUS Mauritius MU1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    MEX Mexico MX2 Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    MEX Mexico MX4 Address Points Yes Spanish

    MEX Mexico MX1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    MNE Montenegro ME1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Montenegrin

    MAR Morocco MA1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes French

    MAR Morocco MA2 Street Interpolated Yes French

    MOZ Mozambique MZ1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    NAM Namibia NA1 ✓ Street Interpolated No English

    NLD Netherlands NL1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Dutch

    NLD Netherlands NL3 Address Points Yes Dutch

    NZL New Zealand NZ1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    NZL New Zealand NZ5 Street Interpolated Yes English

    NZL New Zealand NZ7 Address Points Yes English

    NIC Nicaragua NI2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    NER Niger NE1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    NGA Nigeria NG1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    NOR Norway NO1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Norwegian

    OMN Oman OM1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    PAN Panama PA2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    PRY Paraguay PY2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    PER Peru PE2 ✓ Street Centroid Yes Spanish

    PHL Philippines PH1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    POL Poland PL1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Polish, CZE

    POL Poland PL3 Address Points Yes Polish, CZE

    POL Poland PL4 Address Points No English

    PRT Portugal PT1 Street Interpolated Yes Portuguese

    PRT Portugal PT2 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Portuguese

    PRT Portugal PT4 Address Points Yes Portuguese

    PRT Portugal PT3 Address Points Yes Portuguese

    QAT Qatar QA1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    ROU Romania RO1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Romanian

    RUS Russia RU1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Russian, English

    RUS Russia RU3 Address Points Yes xx??

    RWA Rwanda RW1 ✓ Street Centroid Yes French

    KNA Saint Kitts and KN2 ✓ Street Centroid No English Nevis

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    SAU Saudi Arabia SA1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    SEN Senegal SN1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    SRB Serbia RS1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Serbian, English

    SGP Singapore SG1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    SGP Singapore SG3 Address Points Yes English

    SGP Singapore SG6 xx?? No English

    SGP Singapore SG7 Address Points No English

    SVK Slovakia SK1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Slovakian

    SVK Slovakia SK3 Address Points Yes Slovakian

    SVN Slovenia SI1 ✓ Street Centroid Yes Slovenian

    SVN Slovenia SI4 Address Points No English

    ZAF South Africa ZA1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    ESP Spain ES1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Spanish

    ESP Spain ES4 Address Points Yes Spanish

    SUR Suriname SR2 ✓ Street Centroid No Dutch

    SWZ Swaziland SZ1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    SWE Sweden SE2 Street Interpolated Yes Swedish

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    SWE Sweden SE1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Swedish

    SWE Sweden SE4 Address Points Yes Swedish

    CHE Switzerland CH3 Address Points Yes French, Italian, German

    CHE Switzerland, CH1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes French, Liechtenstein Italian,

    German

    TWN Taiwan TW1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    TZA Tanzania TZ1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    THA Thailand TH1 ✓ Street Centroid No Thai script, latinized Thai

    THA Thailand TH3 Address Points Yes Thai script, latinized Thai

    THA Thailand TH2 Street Interpolated Yes Thai script, latinized Thai

    THA Thailand TH4 Address Points Yes Thai script, latinized Thai

    TGO Togo TG1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    TTO Trinidad and TT2 ✓ Street Centroid No English Tobago

    TUN Tunisia TN1 ✓ Street Centroid No French

    TUR Turkey TR1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes Turkish

    TUR Turkey TR5 Street Interpolated Yes Turkish

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Country Country Name Product Interactive Maximum Postcodes1 Language ISO3 Code Precision

    TUR Turkey TR7 Address Points Yes Turkish

    UGA Uganda UG1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    UKR Ukraine UA1 ✓ Street Centroid No English, Ukrainian

    ARE United Arab AE1 ✓ Street Interpolated No Arabic, Emirates latinized

    Arabic

    GBR United Kingdom GB1 ✓ Street Interpolated Yes English

    GBR United Kingdom GB7 Address Points Yes English

    GBR United Kingdom GB8 ✓ Address Points Yes English

    URY Uruguay UY1 Street Interpolated No Spanish

    VEN Venezuela VE2 ✓ Street Centroid No Spanish

    VNM Viet Nam NG1 XX?? ✓ Street Centroid No English Penny's table has VN1?

    WORLD World 8XW ✓ Boundary Centroid Yes English

    XWG World XW1 Boundary Centroid Yes English

    YEM Yemen YE1 ✓ Street Centroid No Arabic, latinized Arabic

    ZMB Zambia ZM1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    ZWE Zimbabwe ZW1 ✓ Street Centroid No English

    1 No = not available in the dataset, N/A = not available for the country

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    Bug Fixes

    This release includes these fixes for geocoding with Spectrum™ Technology Platform.

    • (GN-29806) All Countries: Some customers' systems introduce 'null' when creating a single line input address. 'Null' is now ignored in input addresses for all countries. For example, an address of

    3RD AVENUE,ANNA NAGAR null null CHENNAI 600102 --> returns Z1; ignoring 'null null' returns S4.

    • (GN-30731) Belgium: Geographic and postal fallbacks no longer return Belgium (BEL) as country when they are in Luxembourg (LUX).

    • (GN-29762 / GN-27993) India: Geocoder has now been optimized to get better throughput for single data or multiple data sets.

    • (GN-30923) Indonesia: Geocoder improvements for street geocoding. • (GN-1116) Japan: Now handles special character “−“ (U+2122 ) in input address. • (GN-1107) Japan: Input of Kyoto as AreaName1 or AreaName2 will now return a G1 candidate. • (GN-21042) Japan: "Kashiwa-shi" in county/city field now returns candidate in multiline.

    • (GN-991) Japan: Geographic geocoding / fallback now returns G2 result without Areaname1 on input

    • (GN-28261 / GN-26752 / GN-27753) Japan: Enhancements to the Japan geocoder improved scoring and matching logic and now returns better matching results.

    • (GN-27766 / GN-28014 / GN-28004 / GN-156) Mexico: Improved the Mexico geocoder by adding support for multiple abbreviations, updating the parsing and scoring logic, and optimizing for overall performance improvements.

    • (GN-31094) Peru: PER formatted street address has been modified to include street address, locatlity, and foramtted location address. Location address has been modified to include Postcode Province. Note: there is an outstandng data bug related to province which has not been fixed for the April release.

    • (GN-28196) Russia: Improved the Russian geocoder to better handle addresses that have apostrophes in area names.

    • (GN-31013 / GN-26640 ) Singapore: Singapore address geocode now returns "Singapore" in the City column.

    • (GN-30579) Taiwan: Locality column is now mapped to AreaName4. • (GN-30926) Ukraine: Cities "Mizhhir'ya" and "Kozyatyn" now return candidates again.

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    Data Setup

    SPD data for EGM and Interactive is extracted to a location on your system and configured for use. There is no installation in the traditional sense. The procedure differs depending on your version of the Spectrum™ Technology Platform.

    Spectrum versions 2018.2, 12.2 and 12.1 provide an extraction and configuration using Management Console. See Setting up SPD databases for Spectrum 2018.2 and v12.0 or greater on page 21.

    Saving Databases

    Be aware that any data folders under a Spectrum installation will be removed when Spectrum is uninstalled. To retain the data for future use, consider archiving the SPD in a location outside of the Spectrum installation. To do this, set the spectrum.data.manager.archive.data property to true located in the \server\app\conf\spectrum-container.properties.

    You can also change the data repository location by providing a path in spectrum.data.manager.storage.directory.

    Using Older Datasets From 12.0 and Earlier

    If you upgrade to 12.1 or 12.2, you can use database resources from earlier versions of Spectrum. The legacy database resources will be visible in Management Console and available for use alongside any new data you installed. If you decide you don't want the legacy datasets associated with the database resource, in Management Console's Spectrum Database page, select the database resource and click Modify. From the Edit Database page, clear the checkbox next to the dataset(s) you no longer want in the database. The legacy datasets will no longer be available.

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    Setting up SPD databases for Spectrum 2018.2 and v12.0 or greater

    Follow this procedure to extract and configure SPD datasets that have not been set up previously. This is done using Management Console.

    To set up and configure an SPD database:

    1. Update your Spectrum installation with all product updates (patches) available for your release. 2. Download the database .spd to a location of your choice. The database will be

    downloaded as an SPD file, which is essentially a zip file with an .spd extension. If you downloaded from eStore or Software Data MarketPlace (SDM), the .spd will be inside a .zip file. Extract it to a temporary location.

    3. Copy the .spd into the Spectrum server's dataimport folder or a location of your choice. The dataimport folder for a default installation is located in C:\Program Files\Pitney Bowes\Spectrum\server\app\dataimport.. Once the .spd is in the folder, it will automatically be extracted to Spectrum's data repository at C:\Program Files\PitneyBowes\Spectrum\server\app\repository\datastorage\geocoding-all\geocoding-all.

    Note: The entire contents of the SPD will be extracted to the dataimport folder or your custom location. You cannot pick which datasets are extracted. This is a change from the past when dbloader allowed you to choose.

    Note: The SPD will be uninstalled from the default Spectrum location during an uninstallation of Spectrum. If you want to change the default data repository or to archive the .spd, Spectrum provides the spectrum-container.properties file under \server\app\conf that you can edit. See the properties spectrum.data.manager.storage.directory and spectrum.data.manager.archive.data. Restart the server when done.

    4. To configure a new database in Management Console, choose Resources > Spectrum Databases.

    5. Click Add , provide a name for the database, and choose the appropriate module from the list.

    6. Select the dataset(s) that you would like to add to the database by checking the box next to the name. Save the database when finished.

    7. To reconfigure a database resource in Management Console, select the database from the list.

    Click Modify . Change the name and select and/or unselect the datasets you want. Save the database resource when finished. You cannot rename an existing database and modify it.

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    To reconfigure the database from the command line, see Reconfiguring a Database with the Administration Utility on page 23.

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    Reconfiguring a Database with the Administration Utility

    Spectrum's Administration Utility provides commands that allow you to reconfigure an existing database from the command line. For example, you may need to deploy the data to multiple places in a clustered environment. The process involves exporting the database properties to a file, then importing the properties file to configure the database.

    To reconfigure a previously configured SPD database:

    1. At the Administration Utility command line run the egmglobaldb export command. This writes out a file that contains the properties of the database and paths for the new location. For example: egmglobaldb export --o outputpath/egmGlobalDbResource.txt.

    The output file can be named anything. It will be a JSON formatted file. If an output path is not provided, the file is written to the current folder.

    2. To configure the database, use the egmglobaldb import command to import the database properties and configure the database. The JSON file from the export is the input for the import operation. For example: egmglobaldb import --f egmGlobalDbResource.txt.

    For more information about these commands and the Administration Utility in general, see the Spectrum™ Technology PlatformSpectrum Administration Guide.

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