Unison:Global Address Verification

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The Unison by Melissa Global Address Cleansing Task cleanses global contact data.

Input Fields

This section displays the possible inputs for the Global Address Cleansing Task. An address and Country are required.

Organization/Company

The company or organization.

Address Line 1

The first address line. This should contain the delivery address information (house number, thoroughfare, building, suite, etc.) but should not contain locality information (locality, administrative area, postal code, etc.) which have their own inputs.

Address Line 2 - Address Line 4

This is optional. This should contain the delivery address information (house number, thoroughfare, building, suite, etc.) but should not contain locality information (locality, administrative area, postal code, etc.) which have their own inputs.

Sub-Premises/Suite

The sub-premises or suite number.

Locality/City

The locality name.

US Term: City

Canada Term: Municipality

Administrative Area/State

The administrative area, state or province name.

Postal Code/Zip

The Zip Code or Postal Code, depending on the country.

Country

The country code. If this is not input, the country will default to the United States.

More Input Fields

Address Line 5 - Address Line 8

This is optional. This should contain the delivery address information (house number, thoroughfare, building, suite, etc.) but should not contain locality information (locality, administrative area, postal code, etc.) which have their own inputs.

Country of Origin

This is used to determine whether or not to include the country name as the last line in Formatted Address.

• The destination country will be appended to the end of the formatted address when:

• Valid and different from the destination country.

• The destination country will not be appended to the end of the formatted address when:

• Blank or
• Invalid or
• Same as the destination country

Double Dependent Locality

The smallest population center data element. This depends on the Locality and Dependent Locality fields.

Dependent Locality/Urbanization

The smaller population center data element. This depends on the Locality element.

US Term: Urbanization: In terms of US Addresses, this element applies only to Puerto Rican addresses. It is used to break ties when a ZIP Code™ is linked to multiple instances of the same address.

Sub Administrative Area/County

The smallest geographic data element.

US Term: County.

Sub National Area

The administrative region within a country on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state.

Output Fields

This section displays the possible outputs for the Address Service. Select the on/off toggle to enable/disable the output of a field.

Organization

The company or organization.

Address Line 1 - Address Line 8

These will be the standardized or corrected contents of the input address. These lines will include the entire address including the locality, administrative area, and postal code.

Zip/Postal Code

The postal code.

US Term: ZIP Code.

Country

The country name.

Latitude

The latitude of the address.

Longitude

The longitude of the address.

Dependent Locality

A dependent locality is a logical area unit that is smaller than a locality but larger than a double dependent locality or thoroughfare. It can often be associated with a neighborhood or sector. Great Britain is an example of a country that uses double dependent locality. In the United States, this would correspond to Urbanization, which is used only in Puerto Rico.

US Term: Urbanization.

Locality

The most common geographic area and used by virtually all countries. This is usually the value that is written on a mailing label and referred to by terms like City, Town, Postal Town, etc.

US Term: City

Administrative Area/State

A common geographic area unit for larger countries.

US Term: State

Melissa Address Key (MAK)

(MAK) A unique key assigned to an address record.

Melissa Address Key Base

A unique key assigned to the base address of a complex with apartments or suites.

Address Type Code

Returns a one-character code for the type of address coded. This element works only for US, Canadian, and Great Britain addresses.

See Unison by Melissa Result Codes for a full list of result codes.

Formatted Address

Returns the address in the correct format for mailing from the country specified in the Country Of Origin input. This includes the Organization as the first line, one or more lines in the origin country’s format, and the destination country (if required).

UPRN

Great Britain Only. Returns the Unique Property Reference Number created and maintained by Ordnance Survey.

Result Codes

Returned result codes for the address.

For a list of result codes returned by Unison, see Unison Result Codes.

Additional Address Fields

Adds fields for parsed data from the address.

ISO 2 Country Code

The 2 letter ISO 3166 country code value.

For example:

Country	Code
United States	US
Canada	CA
Philippines	PH

ISO 3 Country Code

The 3 letter ISO 3166 country code value.

For example:

Country	Code
United States	USA
Canada	CAN
Philippines	PHL

ISO Country Number

The ISO 3166 country number value.

For example:

Country	Code
United States	840
Canada	124
Philippines	608

Parsed Dependent Thoroughfare Fields

Adds fields relating to the Dependent Thoroughfare from the address.

Dependent Thoroughfare

The parsed Dependent Thoroughfare. The dependent thoroughfare is a second thoroughfare that is required to narrow down the final address. This is rarely used.

Dependent Thoroughfare Pre Direction

The parsed Dependent Thoroughfare Pre Direction. This value is a part of the DependentThoroughfare field.

Dependent Thoroughfare Post Direction

The parsed Dependent Thoroughfare Post Direction. This value is a part of the DependentThoroughfare field.

Dependent Thoroughfare Leading Type

The parsed Dependent Thoroughfare Leading Type. This value is a part of the DependentThoroughfare field.

Dependent Thoroughfare Name

The parsed Dependent Thoroughfare Name. This value is a part of the DependentThoroughfare field.

Dependent Thoroughfare Trailing Type

The parsed Dependent Thoroughfare Trailing Type. This value is a part of the DependentThoroughfare field.

Parsed Regional Fields

Adds additional fields relating to the region from the address.

Double Dependent Locality

A logical area unit that is smaller than a dependent locality but bigger than a thoroughfare. This field is very rarely used. Great Britain is an example of a country that uses double dependent locality.

Sub Administrative Area

A logical area that that is smaller than the administrative area but larger than a locality. While many countries can have a sub-administrative area value, it is very rarely used as part of an official address.

Sub National Area

A logical area unit that is larger than an administrative area but smaller than the country itself. It is extremely rarely used.

Parsed Postal Facility Fields

Adds additional fields relating to the postal facility.

Post Box

The parsed Post Box.

Post Office Location

If available, this is the value that is associated to the location of the post office in relation to the address. This value may or may not be used in the official mailing address for the country in question. Currently, these are the countries we will return the data for: Serbia and Slovakia.

Country	Description
Serbia	The Post Office Location field contains the old 5 digit postal number and name. The postal code field will contain the new 6 digit PAK number.
Slovakia	The Post Office Location field returns the name of the post office location if it is not the same as the delivery address locality.

Parsed Thoroughfare Fields

Adds fields relating to the Thoroughfare from the address.

Premises Number/Street Number

The parsed premises number.

US Term: House Number

Premises Type

The parsed premises type.

Thoroughfare

A part of the address lines containing all the sub-elements of the thoroughfare like trailing type, thoroughfare name, pre direction, post direction, etc.

US Term: Street

Thoroughfare Name

The parsed thoroughfare name. This is part of the thoroughfare field.

Thoroughfare Pre Direction

Pre Directions are directionals at the beginning of the thoroughfare (i.e., N, S, E, W, NE, SW, etc.). This is part of the thoroughfare field.

Thoroughfare Post Direction

Post Directions are directionals at the end of the thoroughfare (i.e., N, S, E, W, NE, SW, etc.). This is part of the thoroughfare field.

Thoroughfare Leading Type

Leading Types are thoroughfare types at the beginning of the thoroughfare (i.e., "Rue", etc.). This is part of the thoroughfare field.

This term is not used in the US.

Thoroughfare Trailing Type

Trailing Types are thoroughfare types at the end of the thoroughfare (i.e., "St.", "Rd.", "Ave.", etc.). This is part of the thoroughfare field.

Parsed Subpremises Fields

Adds fields relating to the sub premises from the address.

Extra Information Fields

Adds miscellaneous fields to the output record.