GENERAL SYNTAX FOR THE TERRAFLY GEOCODER ADDRESS CONVERSION WEB SERVICE http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?matchprop=2&street=&city=&state=&zip= http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=&city=&state=&zip= This finds the nearest address range and interpolates the coordinates of the address. The city, zip, or state fields may be missing or combined into the relevant fields in the following order: street address followed by the city, state and zip. It is recommended that the fields be kept separate, which can improve the address recognition performance. If the street= field is missing or contains a PO Box, the program will search for the zip code center or the city center. The state can be a two-letter code of the state or a full state name. For example the following queries will return the same result (The url encoding of spaces as "%20" is optional): http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100+lincoln+rd+Miami+fl http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd&city=Miami%20fl http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100+lincoln+rd&city=Miami+fl http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd&city=Miami&state=fl http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd&city=Miami&state=fl&zip=33139 http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd%20Miami%20fl Result: X=-80.128145 Y=25.790459 Level=1 Exact match where X is the longitude and Y is the latitude, Level= is a number ranging from 1 to 5 as follows: Level Description: 1 'Exact match' 2 'Approx match' - the program could not find the exact range, but found the nearest syntactic match or range 3 'Zip center' - the returned coordinate is the zip code center 4 'City Center' - the returned coordinate is the city center 5 'Not Found' - the address could not be located If the house number does not match any address range in the database or the house number is missing, or the exact street name could not be found, the code 'Approx match' will be returned. If the street name could not be found or missing, but the zip code is valid, the program will return the code 3 'zip center'. If the zip code is invalid or missing, but the city and state were found, the program will return the code 4 - 'City Center'. If nothing could be matched, the program will return code 5 'Not Found'. Rooftop geocoding: If the optional parameter matchprop=2 is supplied, the system will attempt to adjust the resulting coordinates to the center of the parcel with the same address. Without the matchprop=2 parameter, the computation is faster, however in some streets the geocoded point may fall on a neighboring parcel rather than the right parcel -- because of the nature of coordinate interpolation of street addresses. Currently we have a parcel database covering the United States of America. If the exact matching parcel is found, then this is reflected in the comment next to the returned Level: Level=1 Exact Parcel match Examples: http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100+lincoln+rd+Miami+fl&matchprop=2 http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd&city=Miami%20fl&matchprop=2 http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100+lincoln+rd&city=Miami+fl&matchprop=2 http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd&city=Miami&state=fl&matchprop=2 http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd&city=Miami&state=fl&zip=33139&matchprop=2 http://stree.cs.fiu.edu/street?street=100%20lincoln%20rd%20Miami%20fl&matchprop=2 http://stree.cis.fiu.edu/street?street=400 Arvida Pkwy Coral Gables,FL 33156&matchprop=2 http://stree.cis.fiu.edu/street?street=400%20Arvida%20Pkwy%20Coral%20Gables,%20FL%2033156&matchprop=2 http://stree.cis.fiu.edu/street?street=400+Arvida+Pkwy+Coral+Gables,+FL+33156&matchprop=2 http://stree.cis.fiu.edu/street?street=400 Arvida Pkwy&city=Coral%20Gables&state=FL&zip=33156&matchprop=2 http://stree.cis.fiu.edu/street?street=490%20W%20Paces%20Ferry%20Road%20Nw%20Atlanta,%20GA%2030305&matchprop=2 If the user supplies the parameter showcleansedaddress=1, the system returns the cleansed address of the matched record in the parcel database: http://stree.cis.fiu.edu/street?street=400%20Arvida%20Pkwy%20Coral%20Gables,FL%2033156&matchprop=2&showcleansedaddress=1 X=-80.260524 Y=25.689212 Level=1 Exact Parcel match 400 ARVIDA PKWY