New Release Geocoder.ca V_Jan_2023

Release Notes – Geocoder.ca V_Jan_2023

• Gist: Geocoder.ca API is now a mature codebase, most changes are internal enhancements resulting in more data coverage, faster performance and stability.

geocoder.ca API (development version)

• You can geocode points on interest as well as street addresses.

geocoder.ca API (production version)

Internals

• Geocoder.ca now uses a customized implementation of the Hilbert Curve for geo indexing and locality-sensitive hashing resulting in a 50% gain in performance. The resulting hash, is called geonumber and can be used interchangingly with latitude,longitude
• The latest version of street address data from statistics Canada road network file has been cleaned up and imported into the search index.
• The latest versions of the civic address databases from Canadian municipalities participating in the open data publishing at open.canada.ca/en/open-data
• We've updated the city/neighborhood/locality lists for both USA and Canada
• Better address spelling correction and standardization
• Better autocomplete coverage and accuracy

New Features

• Optionally you may request the nearest points of interest to be returned with your reverse geocoding search. More on the Places Search API
• You may use both geonumber as well as latitude,longitude arguments for reverse geocoding.
• The autocomplete API will also return "PO Box" matches on certain inputs.

Breaking changes

• none

Minor changes

• proper case formatting of city names and address names.

Known Issues

• none