Yahoo! PlaceFinder Plug-in

The Yahoo! PlaceFinder Plug-in for Convergence for MDM provides an enricher for international postal addresses. This enricher cleanses, standardizes and enriches the postal addresses with geocoding information.

Convergence Address Enricher

Plug-in ID

Yahoo Place Enricher - com.semarchy.integration.rowTransformers.yahooPlaceEnricher

Description

This enricher takes an input address, enriches and validates this postal address using the Yahoo! PlaceFinder Service.

Note: This plugin is provided for demonstration purposes as must be used in compliance with the Yahoo! APIs Terms of Use.

Plug-in Parameters

The following table lists the plug-in parameters.

Parameter Name Mandatory Type Description
Yahoo APPID Yes String API Key (Application ID) required to access Yahoo! Web Services.

Plug-in Inputs

The following table lists the plug-in inputs.

Parameter Name Mandatory Type Description
Address Line Yes String Address line to process. If the address is composed of multiple lines, then these lines must be provided as a comma-separated list of address lines.
Postal Code No String Postal code of the address. This value may be merged in the Address Line parameter.
City No String City of the address. This value may be merged in the Address Line parameter.
Country No String Country of the address. This value may be merged in the Address Line parameter.

Plug-in Outputs

The following table lists the plug-in outputs.

Parameter Name Type Description
Administrative Area Level 1 String First-order civil entity below the country level. Within the United States, these administrative levels are states. Not all countries exhibit these administrative levels.
Administrative Area Level 2 String Second-order civil entity below the country level. Within the United States, these administrative levels are counties. Not all countries exhibit these administrative levels.
Administrative Area Level 3 String Third-order civil entity below the country level. Not all countries exhibit these administrative levels.
Country String The national political entity.
East Bound Longitude String Bounding box eastern limit.
Intersection String Major intersection, usually of two major roads.
Latitude String Latitude of the address.
Locality String Incorporated city or town political entity.
Longitude String Longitude of the address.
Neighborhood String Named neighborhood.
North Bound Latitude String Bounding box northern limit.
Postal Code String Postal code as used to address postal mail within the country.
Quality String The value of an Address Quality element defines the granularity of the location described by an address. Should return a value that expresses this quality between 0 and 100 (100 being the best quality)
Room String The room of a building address.
South Bound Latitude String Bounding box southern limit.
Street Address String Precise street address.
Street Number String Precise street number.
West Bound Longitude String Bounding box western limit.