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9.4.1.7101

Released on: March 2025

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  • General Update

    • We have fixed an issue where double spaces in the address lines and FormattedAddress was being replaced by a single space as a data quality cleanup step. However, this conflicted with several countries, Australia and Netherlands in particular, where double spaces was not required but preferred in certain place. We have rolled back this cleanup for these two countries to better match postal preferences.

  • Data Updates

    • Reference Data Update

      ALL COUNTRIES

    • Address Pattern Recognition Update

      AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CANADA, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, GUATEMALA, HONG KONG, SOUTH KOREA, LUXEMBOURG, NORWAY, PERU, THAILAND, UNITED STATES, VENEZUELA

  • Country Specific Updates

    • Australia

      • We have added more Non-Postal data to our address database. We not are including over 700K non-postal addresses
      • We now return a double space between the Subpremise information and the house number to better match postal preference

    • Belgium

      • Improved handling of address patterns, especially around sub premises
      • Data improvement to better handle addresses that have data in parenthesis
      • Fixed an issue where some retired addresses were included in the address data

    • Brazil

      • Fixed an issue where the AdministrativeArea was sometimes returned in fully spelled out form instead of the expected abbreviated version.

    • Canada

      We have made a number of improvements to our Canadian Engine. We will now better handle the interaction between French versus English in the addresses. Previously, due to being SERP certified, we had to stick to the results expected by the SERP test. Now, we are adding a secondary mode in the engine so that we can return what many people expect, while still having the option to switch to SERP mode for certification.

      • We have improved a case where the CanadaPost SERP data provided caps the ThoroughfareName at 30 characters but the real-life street is longer. We have been able to research and adjust this data now that we don’t have to strictly adhere to SERP
      • Fixed an issue where MelissaAddressKeyBase was not being returned
      • Improved handling of edge case address patterns

    • Czechia

      • We have changed the official country name coming back from our engine to “Czechia” as per ISO 3166 standards

    • Finland

      • Improved address pattern recognition to improve coding
      • Reduced false coding
      • Improved area level validation
      • Fixed an issue where some subpremise information and other data was not included in the Addresslines and FormattedAddress
      • Fixed an issue where a duplicate postal code was returned in FormattedAddress

    • France

      • Fixed an issue where some house numbers were excluded from the data

    • Germany

      • Reduced false coding
      • Fixed an issue where some addresses that matched to a bulk postal code address but did not return AddressType=B

    • Great Britain

      • Improved validation with organizational data, especially with extra sub premise types present
      • Reduced false coding

    • Guatemala

      • Fixed an issue where the street type (Calle, Avenida, etc) was repeated twice in the ThoroughfareName

    • Guernsey

      • Added postalcode level geocoding

    • Hong Kong

      We have made some major improvements to our data. However, in order to get this data into the hands of our users in this update, we had to release a version without the MelissaAddressKey values. Those values will be available in the next quarterly update.

      • Improved localities returned
      • Improved street address coding
      • Improved Building names returned
      • MelissaAddressKey temporarily not being returned

    • Isle of Man

      • Added postalcode level geocoding

    • Jersey

      • Added postalcode level geocoding

    • Korea, Republic Of

      • Fixed an issue where DependentLocality or DoubleDependentLocality was missing in the FormattedAddress for some addresses
      • Update the latin locality data to more closely match user expectation

    • Luxembourg

      • Improved handling of more address patterns
      • Fixed an issue where some subpremise information and other data was not included in the Addresslines and FormattedAddress

    • Netherlands

      • We now return a double space between the postal code and locality to better match postal preference

    • Norway

      • Improved address pattern recognition to improve coding
      • Reduced false coding
      • Improved area level validation
      • Fixed an issue where some subpremise information and other data was not included in the Addresslines and FormattedAddress
      • Fixed an issue where a duplicate postal code was returned in FormattedAddress
      • Updated our FormattedAddress to put building information in a separate line to better match with postal preferences

    • Peru

      We have changed our data source for a source with improved quality

      • Improved coding rate
      • Fixed an issue where the FormattedAddress may be missing some parsed address data
      • Improved parsing for partially validated addresses

    • Thailand

      • Fixed an issue where Locality was not returned for some AV12 addresses

    • United States

      • Fixed an issue where duplicated postal code could be returned in the FormattedAddress
      • Fixed an issue where not diacritic characters in Puerto Rico was not being returned correctly
      • Fixed an issue where MelissaAddressKeyBase was not being returned

    • Venezuela

      • Reduced false coding for inputs that included “y” between two streets values.

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8.4.1.7039

Released on: December 2024

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