The Street Buffer is a list of streets. For both GB and US, it is returned as a 25,000 character attribute in the output schema, with up to 500 street names containing up to 50 characters each.
The Details Buffer contains premise details, such as house information, apartment information, and postal code. For the US, it is a 24,600 character attribute (USDET_AREA_OUT) with up to 200 entries containing up to 123 characters each.
Guidelines
- The buffer is available only in real-time implementations.
- US details buffer can come back only when you have the following condition fulfilled: Match Level Code is 0,4 or 5 in addition to an exact street name. You should get the full street information (number, street name, type, etc) for that street.
The following layout shows the attributes that are included in the Details Buffer of the US Postal Matcher.
|
Attribute |
Position |
Length |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Postal_code |
1-5 |
5 |
ZIP code for the corresponding details. |
|
Adr_primary_low |
6 - 15 |
10 |
A house, rural route, highway contract box, or post office box number; the numeric or alphanumeric component of an address preceding the street name; the low-end address in a range of address. Often referred to as house number. Address Range Address Primary Low Number 100-198 Main Ave. <– 100 101-199 Main Ave. <– 101 A200-A298 Main Ave. <– A200 |
|
Add_primary_ high |
16 - 25 |
10 |
A house, rural route, highway contract box, or post office box number; the numeric or alphanumeric component of an address preceding the street name; the low-end address in a range of address. Often referred to as house number. |
|
Addr_primary_oe |
26 |
1 |
Code that identifies the side or sides of a street for which a given address range is applicable. For street, high-rise, firm and multi-carrier records, B=Both sides of the street, E=Even side of a street (even-numbered addresses in the range), O=Odd side of a street (odd numbered addresses in the range). For general delivery, post office box, and rural route/highway contract records, this code is always "B" (Both). 100-198 Main Ave. E (Even addresses in the range) 101-199 Main Ave. O (Odd addresses in the range) 100-199 Main Ave. B (Even & odd addresses in the range) |
|
Str_pre_direction |
27 - 28 |
2 |
Prefix street direction that precedes the street name. Common letter designations like N, SW, and so on. |
|
Street_name |
29 - 56 |
28 |
Street name. Street name from the GAV table. |
|
Str_suffix |
57 - 60 |
4 |
Street type. (e.g. Ave., Rd., etc.) Appropriate abbreviations are used. |
|
Str_post_ direction |
61 - 62 |
2 |
Street post direction that follows the street name. Common letter designations like N, SW, and so on. |
|
Bldg_firm_sec_ name |
63 - 102 |
40 |
The name of a company, building, apartment complex, shopping center, or other distinguishing secondary address information. This field is normally used with firm and high-rise records but may also contain literals such as ‘Postmaster’ or ‘United States Postal Service.’ |
|
Addr_sec_add |
103 - 106 |
4 |
A descriptive code used to identify the type of address secondary range information in the Address Secondary Range field. This code may be useful in address matching, (such as, the secondary address numbers may indicate apartment, suite, or trailer numbers, and so on) |
|
Addr_sec_low |
107 - 114 |
8 |
Code that describes an apartment, room, suite, space, floor or other secondary addressing numeric or alphanumeric that follows a street address. The low-end secondary address component in a range of secondary addresses. |
|
Addr_sec_high |
115 - 122 |
8 |
Code that describes an apartment, room, suite, space, floor or other secondary addressing numeric or alphanumeric that follows a street address. The high-end secondary address component in a range of secondary addresses. |
|
Addr_sec_oe |
123 |
1 |
Code that identifies a secondary address within a range of secondary addresses as being o(dd), e(ven), or b(oth). |