Using the MapMarker, Envinsa, Precisely Global Geocoder, and Global Geocoder Web Services, you have more choices for geocoding. For example, you can choose to geocode your records by street address or by postal code centroid, or by geographic centroids. If you have geocoded some records and some did not geocode successfully, you can set fallback conditions to locate those records. If you geocode and there are no results, poor results, or multiple equal close results, the geocoding server can present you with interactive options so you can select among possible matches or change your input. Further, these web services allow you to set multiple matching conditions when more than one record matches the records you are geocoding and set offsets for placing points right in the geocode properties.
For companies and organizations that use MapMarker, Envinsa or Global Geocoder servers as a geocoding engine, you can now take advantage of the geocoding servers available to your whole enterprise. If your organization makes this server available on your intranet or over the Internet, you can use our geocoding web services from within MapInfo Pro to perform more sophisticated and accurate data geocoding. If you use Precisely Global Geocoder, you can access the geocoding server from Precisely that you can use to geocode your data with high precission.
MapMarker is a powerful geocoding product that assigns coordinates to an address based on how well it matches entries in an Address Dictionary. The precision of the match can vary. For each address you geocode, you may get back a single perfect, street-level match, a list of street-level match candidates from which you choose the best match, or a less precise postal code centroid match, where the point would be located near the center of the postal code area. In the case of a ZIP + 4 centroid match, the location of the point corresponds to the address which is closest to the mid-address of the ZIP + 4 address range. You must have MapMarker 4.0 core to use this web service.
Envinsa provides a wider range of web services than MapMarker and can even provide access to earlier versions of MapMarker. Envinsa can determine these values from a street address or postal code. Envinsa servers require more security than MapMarker, so you will need a user name and password to access them. Keep in mind that the services that are available on an Envinsa server depends on what was installed.
Precisely Global Geocoder is a cloud based geocoding server from Precisely Sign-up for the service now and get a free limited number of geocoding credits per month. See Using the Precisely Global Geocoding Server for details.
Global Geocoder is available when you add a new Geocoding server to the server list. The Global Geocoder Interface implementation connects MapInfo Pro with Global Geocoding making it easier for you to consume our geocoding assets. To geocode data from anywhere, choose to work with the Global Geocoder. This is a generic interface created by Precisely through which any or all of our country geocoders can be installed and accessed.
To use MapInfo Pro with a geocoding server, you need MapMarker Java Server 4.0 or later or Envinsa 4.0 or later or a Global Geocoding server. MapInfo Pro supports any geography that is supported by Envinsa currently. Envinsa supports MapMarker Java Server V2, V3, and V4. Keep in mind that any Envinsa server only supports the data that is installed.
Before you can access a MapMarker or Envinsa geocoding service, you need to connect MapInfo Pro to its server. This process gives MapInfo Pro all the information it needs to access the geocoding service. You need to enter this information only once per service.
- To geocode a single address using a geocoding service, see Geocoding a Single Address using a Geocoding Service.
- To set up a geocoding server and its preferences, see Setting up a Geocoding Server and Setting the Geocoding Server Preferences.