PTV xLocate Server converts mailing addresses into geo- coordinates - from single addresses to entire address data- bases. It can even work in the other direction and find mailing addresses for geocoordinates (such as GPS position data).
PTV xLOCATE SERVER (Address Geocoding)
- Geocoding: georeferencing address data (e.g. customer addresses, depots, warehouses, POIs) for use in information and planning systems
- Reverse geocoding: identification of an address for a geocoordinate
- Long postcodes are processable in the following countries: Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands and USA
- Enables targeted search for ferries and loading stations (piggyback)
- Interactive address search shows practical suggestions even while the address is being entered
- Batch mode for rapidly geocoding large address databases
- POI radius search / search for next (based on direct distance)
- Error tolerance for address entries
For each field (postcode, city, street, etc.) a quality measure is calculated which indicates how closely the result matches the entered address. Based on this you can define rules on how to proceed with different quality measures, such as automatically adding addresses of a certain quality to the database. Any dataset with an inferior quality measure has to be validated manually by the user.
When geocoding, PTV xLocate Server checks the specified address against a reference database. Parameters determine the degree of error tolerance for address entries:
- Binary: exact match required
- Phonetic: includes identical-sounding addresses (entering „Kalsrue“
- produces Karlsruhe)
- Fuzzy: includes addresses with similar spellings
In reverse geocoding, PTV xLocate Server identifies the mailing address for a particular geocoordinate from the reference database. A special feature allows you to determine the population size of the next bigger city that should be reported as a match, including the distance to the original geocoordinate. Several coordinate formats are supported, e.g. Geodecimal, GeoMinSec, WGS 84 and PTV Mercator.
PTV xLocate Server integrates with other applications over standardised web service interfaces (XML, SOAP, JSON).
It is scalable and actively supports multi- processor systems and 64-bit versions of Windows and Linux.
PTV xLocate Server uses PTV‘s standard maps. PTV offers a wide range of regularly updated maps. For decades, PTV has worked closely with HERE, TomTom and AND - all leading suppliers of map data.