New Release Geocoder.ca V_Jan_2023

Release Notes – Geocoder.ca V_Jan_2023

• Gist: More data, faster performance and stability.

geocoder.ca API (development version)

• The autocomplete API will also return "PO Box" matches depending on the input.
• You can geocode points on interest as well as street addresses.
• You may use both 'geonumberas well aslatitude,longitude` arguments for reverse geocoding.

Internals

• Geocoder.ca now uses a customized implementation of the Hilbert Curve for geo indexing resulting in a 50% gain in performance.
• 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 innitiative at open.canada.ca/en/open-data

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

Breaking changes

• none

Minor changes

• proper case formatting of city names and address names.