Version 2.0 Release Notes

Forward and Reverse Geocoder (USA Canada) version 2.0 Release Notes

While older versions of Geocoder (1.0 and 1.1c) will continue to be available, we encourage users to migrate to the latest version of Geocoder (2.0) for better Coverage, Accuracy and Performance.

Released on February 23, 2016 Forward and Reverse Geocoder North America (USA, Canada, Mexico)

2.0 is a major release. This version provides many performance enhancements as well as new functionality. We have also increased Coverage to over 99% and Accuracy to over 94%. The main features added on version 2.0 are:

1. Fulltext Geocoding - Extracting and Geocoding Locations from free form text, using the scantext parameter. eg: http://geocoder.ca/?scantext=this,%20that%20and%20the%20other%20street%20porters%20lake%20NS&geoit=xml

2. Canadian Parcel Plan/Block/Lot Geocoding. eg: http://geocoder.ca/W5M-07-53-30-NE?geoit=xml

3. US Tiger TIGER/Line 2015 data and openaddresses.io data (as of Feb 2016)

4. RoofTop vs Interpolated parameter indicating the type of geocoding method used. (over 40% of requests now return "RoofTop" results) Confidence Score=1 indicates RoofTop result, anything else is Interpolated.

5. Reverse geocoding now includes neighborhood data, time zones, area codes, zip+4 codes, census data

6. The showaddrs parameter shows all addresses and census data associated with a postal/zip code. eg: http://geocoder.ca/R2V1K1?showaddrs=R2V1K1&geoit=xml

7. Performance enhancements. We've optimized performance parameters for various instance types. For eg, on a M4x10xLarge instance you can get about 120 geocodes per second on forward geocoding, and about 60 per second on reverse geocoding.

See the API for details