Custom Preferences:Reverse Geocode Service (Geocoding API) - geo_addressing_sdk - 5.0

Geo Addressing SDK Developer Guide

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Geo Addressing SDK Developer Guide
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Custom preferences supported by the Reverse Geocode Service are for use against any country dataset. Other custom fields that apply to certain countries are located in Custom Preferences and Fields.

To create a custom preference for a POST request, follow this code snippet.

"preferences" : {
            "customPreferences" : {
            "<YOUR_CUSTOM_PREFERENCE>" : "true"
            }
Parameter Type Description


                POST: FALLBACK_TO_WORLD

String When World Places is installed, the reverse geocoder specifies whether to use World Places to determine a geocode when any of the following conditions exist:
  • A country geocoder is not installed
  • The country geocoder does not return a reverse geocode candidate
World Places may return either a postal or geographic geocode depending on the level of support in the dataset. Optional.
true
Use World Places Geocoder for matching when either no reverse geocode candidate is returned by the country geocoder or there is no country geocoder present. Default.
false
Do not use World Places Geocoder.

The customPreferences object is specified in the preferences object. see example at the top of this table.