It’s been a productive year for the ArcGIS Geocoding service team. The team is constantly working on making improvements and helping our users optimize their work. Whether it’s boosting accuracy, broadening global coverage, or launching additional features, the goal is to ensure the best possible experience with the geocoding service.
In 2024, one major enhancement was the introduction of the Batch Geocode service, which is still available for testing through the Early Adopter Community if you would like to share your feedback.
As we wrap up the year, the geocoding team has made several important updates to the service. Here’s a look at what’s new this December:
December 2024 Release Highlights
Point Address Improvements: The service now provides more accurate matches for locations with house numbers, benefiting additional regions such as Colombia, Italy, Romania, Spain, and Uruguay.
Point of Interest Improvements: Geocoding accuracy for points of interest has been significantly improved, benefiting users in Germany, Indonesia, and Portugal.
Locality Improvements: The service now more accurately matches locations with region names and abbreviations, particularly in Australia and its territories.
API and Service Output Enhancements
New Output Fields
Two new output fields, StrucType and StrucDet, have been added to the responses for findAddressCandidates, geocodeAddresses, and reverseGeocode requests. These fields describe the primary usage for a structure or building. Currently, they are only supported for PointAddress and Subaddress candidates in the USA, though not all records will include values for these fields. For more details on the service output fields, visit the ArcGIS Geocoding Service documentation.
Increased Input and Output Field Lengths
The maximum supported length of several input address fields and output candidate fields has been increased. This change allows for more comprehensive and detailed address information. For specific parameter lengths, refer to the ArcGIS Geocoding Service parameter details.
Modified Input Fields
- Singleline
- Address
- Address2
- Address3
- Neighborhood
- City
- Subregion
- Region
Modified Output Fields
- StName
- StPreDir
- Phone
Learn More About the ArcGIS Geocoding Service
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Additional Resources
For a detailed overview of the improvements in this update, visit our What’s New page.
If you have any questions or need software support, don’t hesitate to contact our dedicated support team. For further details on our data coverage, check out the ArcGIS Geocoding Service Data Coverage page.
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