Canada Address Fabric™ release notes 2023.08 - address_fabric_1 - Latest

Canada Address Fabric™ Data Release Notes

Product type
Data
Portfolio
Enrich
Product family
Enrich Properties > World Addresses
Product
Address Fabric™ Data > Address Fabric™ Data
Version
Latest
ft:locale
en-US
Product name
Canada Address Fabric™
ft:title
Canada Address Fabric™ Data Release Notes
Copyright
2025
First publish date
2018
ft:lastEdition
2026-07-27
ft:lastPublication
2026-07-27T13:53:39.913000
L1_Product_Gateway
Enrich
L2_Product_Segment
Data
L3_Product_Brand
Precisely Properties
L4_Investment_Segment
Precisely Addresses
L5_Product_Group
World Addresses
L6_Product_Name
Address Fabric Data

MLD version compatibility

This release of Canada Address Fabric™ data is compatible with the 2023.06.0 Master Location Data (MLD).

New in this release

Product documentation for Canada Address Fabric™ Data moved to the Precisely Help Center as of this release. This change affects the following documents:

  • Product guide
  • Getting Started guide
  • Release notes

Product documentation will be accessible from the EnrichDocumentationReadMe.PDF file in the Documentation folder of the product delivery file.

Note: The data schema workbook will still be available in the Documentation folder of the product delivery file.

How do I access the Precisely Help Center?

  • Go to https://help.precisely.com
  • Click Sign In at the top right of the Precisely Help Center and use your Customer or Partner Community login credentials. If you do not have a Precisely user account, refer to these instructions to register.
  • In the Precisely Help Center, filter, click, or enter search terms to begin

What is the Help Center and how does it impact me?

The Help Center is a modern experience that enables users to quickly locate content, personalize content libraries, and provide feedback. Customers can:

  • Search for help across the entire content set
  • Bookmark topics and create personalized content libraries
  • Save searches and get alerts when content is added or changed
  • Print selected topics
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Changes in this release

Following changes are introduced in this release:
  • Duplicate addresses due to multiple primary languages are reduced in this release.
  • Improvements are made to geocoding precision for 896,233 addresses records where locations moved from address point location (S8) to building point location (19).
  • For 402,617 addresses, the location code is corrected from a building point location (19) to address point location (S8).
  • This release contains changes to STREETNAME field values, resulting from the standardization of the street names.

Known issues

The following issues are currently under investigation.

  • PBAB-1053: Compared to the 2023.05.0 release, there are more than 43,000 addresses for which the PreciselyID changed.
  • PBAB-857: Addresses have been identified with a low precision geocode (FSA centroid), creating invalid stacked point locations.
  • PBAB-3424: There are more than a thousand child (secondary) addresses that do not have a PARENT PreciselyID assigned. These are under investigation.

Product metrics

For detailed statistics, refer to the canada_address_fabric_statistics.xlsx workbook included in the product delivery file.