PTV Developer - Locations by Positions

[Sajmon]

Hi!

Is it possible to change return model of 'Locations by Position' endpoint?

When we use 'geocoding/v1/locations/by-position/50.25195922538689/19.022483825683594?language=en' in Poland we receive additional context in address.street property:

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"address": {
        "countryName": "Poland",
        "state": "Silesian Voivodeship",
        "province": "Katowice",
        "postalCode": "40-039",
        "city": "Katowice",
        "district": "",
        "subdistrict": "",
        "street": "ulica Powstańców",
        "houseNumber": "28",
        "countryCodeIsoAlpha2": "PL",
        "countryCodeIsoAlpha3": "POL",
        "countryCode": "PL"
      }

"street": "ulica Powstańców"

"ulica" means street - so in case of Poland we receive additional context to this specific field.

So, is there any way to change that? I found that in other countries we do not have such additional info.

Best regards,
Szymon

[Bernd Welter]

Hello Szymon,

honestly spoken: I do not get the point behind this request.

I know that "we always did it like this" is not an argument to avoid change, but what exactly is the benefit of "do not mention the ulica" ? I haven't heard this in 25 years.

Would a postal address in Poland not look like

PTV Logistics
Ul. Stumpf 1
76131 Karlsruhe

or

PTV Logistics
Ulica Stumpf 1
76131 Karlsruhe

I am curious about your feedback!

Bernd

[Sajmon]

Hello Bernd!

As you said, in Poland both postal addresses are valid

I was just curious if there is any way to influence this property.
In our app we use also other geocode providers and we would like to maintain common base model. Users usually do not include ul or ulica as this is like street type property (ulica, aleja, plac)

For example, response from other provider:

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Address components:
street_number	16	
route 	Floriana	
locality	Katowice	political
administrative_area_level_2	Powiat Katowice	political
administrative_area_level_1	Województwo śląskie	political
country	Polska
PL	political
postal_code	40-286

As you can see it does not contain any prefix. In other case we recevie also additional street info, which contains also base name or street without any prefixes

But to be honest it is not a big issue from our side, we can handle this ourselves.

Kind regards,
Szymon

[Bernd Welter]

Hello Szymon,

at least I can comment on "is there any way to influence this property?" - the answer is : No.

• We used to have engines which supported the visualization of addresses in various styles but this isn't the case anymore as we wanted to simplify the engine / API.
• Main goals are: ensure the desired address appears in the result at all. Provide quality criteria in a way that each application can decide by itself which hit is the best.
• Convenience has no priority, we only return the desired language as this requires additional data.

Best regards,
Bernd