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Jesse Torres
Jesse Torres

Reputation: 11

Geocoding API - Canadian Postal Code

I am passing a Canadian Postal Code and expecting to receive the corresponding Province and City/Town. For the most part it is working, the Province is returned. However, there are times that the correct city or no city are returned.

Example: Postal Code N0L0B2 corresponds to Glencoe, Ontario. However, GeoCode API does not return any city.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=N0L0B2&region=CA&key=KEY_VALUE

T0H 2N2: Corresponds to Northern Sunrise County but API returns Clairmont.

Question 1: Am I invoking API correctly by passing postal code only? That's the only piece of info that I have.

Thanks,

Jesse

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4625

Answers (2)

NNSkelly
NNSkelly

Reputation: 71

Very limited experimentation here, but it looks like the first 3 characters of the postal code, at least in combination with a country code, may work where the full 6-character does not. E.g. components postal_code:V5K 0A1|country:CAN or postal_code:V5K0A1|country:CAN looks to be returning 0 results, but components postal_code:V5K|country:CAN returns Vancouver.

Upvotes: 0

Ervin Ruci
Ervin Ruci

Reputation: 929

Here you go:

https://geocoder.ca/T0H 2N2?json=1

{
"standard": {
"prov": "AB",
"city": "Northern Sunrise County",
"confidence": "0.3"
},
"Dissemination_Area": {
"adauid": "48170016",
"dauid": "48170258"
},
"longt": "-117.237547",
"TimeZone": "America\/Edmonton",
"postal": "T0H2N2",
"AreaCode": "587",
"latt": "55.956189"
}

Upvotes: 4

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