Pitney Bowes MapXtreme User Manual
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Chapter 13: Finding Locations
Functional Overview of Find
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Developer Guide
abbreviation and substitution list, called Mapinfow.abb, to find a suitable match. This list contains
standard spellings of street prefix and suffix abbreviations, such as ST for Street and Av for Avenue.
You must set a property to tell MapXtreme to use this abbreviations file, but it is a good way to
increase the chance of exact matches or find more close matches than without the file.
The table below illustrates variations in address and whether or not it will result in an exact match
based on the use of the abbreviations file. The first column contains a street name you want to find.
The second column contains the corresponding street name from a source table. The third column
says why they do not match. The fourth column indicates whether the particular problem is one that
can be corrected by using the abbreviation equivalence file. This table assumes that the addresses
are the contents of a single column in a table. While the street number would often be in the same
column, we don’t indicate street numbers here because they are handled differently than street
names.
If you find that you have repeated situations that do not match due to abbreviations, you can:
•
Edit your addresses to conform closer to the abbreviations file, or
Address to
Find
Search Table
Address
Comment
Correctable with
Abbreviation File for an
Exact Match
LaSalle Street
LaSalle St
“Street” and “St” do not match.
Yes
LaSalle Ave
LaSalle Av
“Ave” and “Av” do not match.
Yes
LaSalle Ave
LaSalle St
“Ave” and “St” do not match.
No
LaSalle
LaSalle St
“St” is missing from target.
No. If the street
abbreviation is missing,
MapXtreme does make a
guess on what it could be.
LaSalle St
North
LaSalle St
“North” is not in the search
table.
No
LaSalle St
North
LaSalle St N
“North” and N do not match.
Yes
LaSalle St Apt
3
LaSalle St
Apartment number does not
match anything in the source.
Yes. The apartment number
is ignored.
Tenth St
10th St
“Tenth” and “10th” do not
match.
Yes
10th Av
Tenth Av
“10th” and “Tenth” do not
match.
Yes
Saint John’s
Lane
St John’s Lane
“Saint” and “St” do not match.
Yes