Validate Address Global - web_services - 23.1

Spectrum Web Services Guide

Product type
Software
Portfolio
Integrate
Product family
Spectrum
Product
Spectrum > Web Services
Version
23.1
Language
English
Product name
Spectrum Technology Platform
Title
Spectrum Web Services Guide
First publish date
2007
Last updated
2024-10-17
Published on
2024-10-17T00:33:46.811413

Validate Address Global provides enhanced address standardization and validation for addresses outside the U.S. and Canada. Validate Address Global can also validate addresses in the U.S. and Canada but its strength is validation of addresses in other countries. If you process a significant number of addresses outside the U.S. and Canada, you should consider using Validate Address Global.

Validate Address Global is part of the Universal Addressing Module.

Validate Address Global performs several steps to achieve a quality address, including transliteration, parsing, validation, and formatting.

Character Set Mapping and Transliteration

Validate Address Global handles international strings and their complexities. It uses fully Unicode enabled string processing which enables the transliteration of non-roman characters into the Latin character set and mapping between different character sets.

Character set mapping and transliteration features include:

  • Support for over 30 different character sets including UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, GBK, BIG5, JIS, EBCDIC
  • Proper "elimination" of diacritics according to language rules
  • Transliteration for various alphabets into Latin Script
  • Greek (BGN/PCGN 1962, ISO 843 - 1997)
  • Cyrillic (BGN/PCGN 1947, ISO 9 - 1995)
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji
  • Chinese Pinyin (Mandarin, Cantonese)
  • Korean Hangul

Address Parsing, Formatting, and Standardization

Restructuring incorrectly fielded address data is a complex and difficult task especially when done for international addresses. People introduce many ambiguities as they enter address data into computer systems. Among the problems are misplaced elements (such as company or personal names in street address fields) or varying abbreviations that are not only language, but also country specific. Validate Address Global identifies address elements in address lines and assigns them to the proper fields. This is an important precursor to the actual validation. Without restructuring, "no match" situations might result.

Properly identified address elements are also important when addresses have to be truncated or shortened to fit specific field length requirements. With the proper information in the right fields, specific truncation rules can be applied.

  • Parses and analyzes address lines and identifies individual address elements
  • Processes over 30 different character sets
  • Formats addresses according to the postal rules of the country of destination
  • Standardizes address elements (such as changing AVENUE to AVE)