| 4.1 |
Feb 2021 |
Improved address matching |
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More address ranges |
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Make all locality names unique to avoid user-confusion in autocompletion mode |
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Unincorporated places and communities that aren’t known to the BC Digital Road Atlas have names that relate to the appropriate DRA locality (e.g., Brentwood Bay in Central Saanich, Fairfield in Victoria) |
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Indian Reserves have names that relate to the nearest DRA locality (e.g., Boston Bar 8 near Boston Bar) |
| 4.2 |
May 2022 |
Improved recognition of street and locality names containing missing or extra blank spaces. |
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Improved handling of unitNumberSuffix in structured address requests. |
| 4.3 |
Feb 2024 |
Improved recognition of addresses containing PO boxes (256) |
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Improved response for cases where no site is found (333) |
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Improved parsing to better handle non-address elements found in an addressString (335) |
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Improved handling of locality qualifiers in locality names (233) |
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Improved error responses for JSON (21) |
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Continued data integration automation (336, 344) |
| 4.4 |
Aug 2024 |
Improvements to address data integration process |
| 4.5 |
Jan 2025 |
Added new exactSpelling parameter to improve autoComplete suggestions for partial civic addresses and locality names (387) |
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Added new fuzzyMatch parameter to sort autoComplete suggestions using a fuzzy match comparison to the addressString |
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Added streetAddress property to the BC Address Geocoder response (except when using brief=true) (54) |
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Improved handling of addresses with a missing street name (223) |
