Localities API Coverage
On this page you can find details on our coverage of each feature we offer within Localities API.
- Available data types per feature
- Specific rules regarding addresses
- Specific rules regarding postal codes
Available data types per feature
The table below summarizes the data types you can access through the different features of the Localities API.
This is a very generic information, you can find some specific rules that apply on some parts of the data in the following sections.
| Autocomplete | Details | Geocode | Reverse Geocode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| address | • | • | • | • |
| locality | • | • | • | |
| postal code | • | • | • | |
| admin_level | • | • | ||
| country | • | • | ||
| airport | • | • | ||
| train_station | • | • | ||
| metro_station | • | • | ||
| shopping | • | • | ||
| museum | • | • | ||
| tourist_attraction | • | • | ||
| amusement_park | • | • | ||
| art_gallery | • | • | ||
| zoo | • | • |
Specific rules regarding addresses
Country coverage
Localities API covers addresses of the following country list:
France
United Kingdom (PAF, MR and NYB data from Royal Mail)
Accessing UK addresses through Localities requires a specific product activation.
Please contact our Support Team to get it activated for your Organization.
Location accuracy of UK addresses
Default location accuracy is ROOFTOP. Local specificities may exist:
- Northern Ireland: postal code accuracy
- Crown dependencies: postal code or district accuracy
- Not Yet Built addresses: postal code or district accuracy
Specific rules regarding postal codes
The standard behavior of Localities API allows you to get postal codes in western Europe, USA and Canada.
With the data=advanced parameter, you can increase the coverage of the API and search postal codes pretty much anywhere on the planet.
A dedicated option subject to specific billing on your license is needed to use this parameter. Please contact our Support Team to get it activated for your Organization.
Countries included for Standard Postal Code search (data=standard)
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland- France
Germany
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland- United Kingdom
United States
Countries included for Advanced Postal Code search (data=advanced)
When data=advanced parameter is set, Localities API covers postal codes in all the countries above as well as the following list.
- Afghanistan (af)
- Albania (al)
- Algeria (dz)
- Argentina (ar)
- Armenia (am)
- Australia (au)
- Azerbaijan (az)
- Bahrain (bh)
- Bangladesh (bd)
- Belarus (by)
- Bermuda (bm)
- Bhutan (bt)
- Bosnia-Herzegovina (ba)
- Brazil (br)
- Brunei Darussalam (bn)
- Bulgaria (bg)
- Cambodia (kh)
- Canada (ca)
- Cape Verde (cv)
- Anguilla (ai)
- British Virgin Islands (vg)
- Cayman Islands (ky)
- Cuba (cu)
- Dominican Republic (do)
- Haiti (ht)
- Jamaica (jm)
- Montserrat (ms)
- Puerto Rico (pr)
- Turks and Caicos (tc)
- US Virgin Islands (vi)
- Chile (cl)
- China (cn)
- Colombia (co)
- Costa Rica (cr)
- Croatia (hr)
- Cyprus (cy)
- Czech Republic (cz)
- Faroe Islands (fo)
- Greenland (gl)
- Ecuador (ec)
- Egypt (eg)
- El Salvador (sv)
- Estonia (ee)
- Falkland Islands (fk)
- Georgia (ge)
- Greece (gr)
- Guatemala (gt)
- Honduras (hn)
- Hungary (hu)
- India (in)
- Indonesia (id)
- Iran (ir)
- Iraq (iq)
- Israel (il)
- Japan (jp)
- Jordan (jo)
- Kazakhstan (kz)
- Kenya (ke)
- Kosovo (xk)
- Kuwait (kw)
- Kyrgyzstan (kg)
- Laos (la)
- Latvia (lv)
- Lebanon (lb)
- Liberia (lr)
- Lithuania (lt)
- Macedonia (mk)
- Madagascar (mg)
- Malaysia (my)
- Maldives (mv)
- Malta (mt)
- Mauritius (mu)
- Mexico (mx)
- Moldova (md)
- Mongolia (mn)
- Montenegro (me)
- Morocco (ma)
- Mozambique (mz)
- Myanmar (mm)
- Nepal (np)
- New Zealand (nz)
- Nicaragua (ni)
- Nigeria (ng)
- Oman (om)
- Pakistan (pk)
- Palestine (ps)
- Panama (pa)
- Papua New Guinea (pg)
- Paraguay (py)
- Peru (pe)
- Philippines (ph)
- Poland (pl)
- Romania (ro)
- Russia (ru)
- Saudi Arabia (sa)
- Senegal (sn)
- Serbia (rs)
- Singapore (sg)
- Slovakia (sk)
- Slovenia (si)
- South Africa (za)
- South Georgia (gs)
- South Korea (kr)
- Sri Lanka (lk)
- Swaziland (sz)
- Taiwan (tw)
- Tajikistan (tj)
- Tanzania (tz)
- Thailand (th)
- Tunisia (tn)
- Turkey (tr)
- Turkmenistan (tm)
- Ukraine (ua)
- Uruguay (uy)
- Uzbekistan (uz)
- Venezuela (ve)
- Vietnam (vn)
- Western Sahara (eh)