What’s New with the ArcGIS Geocoding Service? Explore June 2026 Updates

With the most recent updates to the ArcGIS Geocoding service, we’re excited to offer new capabilities and expand the content available in the service output.

Quality improvements

• Address matching in Austria, Belgium, Colombia, India, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Svalbard, and Switzerland is improved through increases in point address coverage.
• Performance improvements for findAddressCandidates and geocodeAddresses requests are now faster.
• Countries with match narrative support now include Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, and the Slovak Republic.

API and service output changes

• A new API parameter, interpolatePointAddress, is now supported for findAddressCandidates and geocodeAddresses requests. This parameter allows you to receive a more precise location when a rooftop address doesn’t exist.
  • interpolatePointAddfress = false is the default value
• The location is more precise because it uses linear interpolation between nearby PointAddress records.
  • Along with the new parameter, there is a new value for the Addr_type field – PointAddressInt.
  • This is the Addr_type value returned when PointAddress interpolation is used to generate a candidate.
• In the image below, you can see the difference between Addr_type = StreetAddress and Addr_type = PointAddressInt
  • The gray dashed line and dot indicatesAddr_type = StreetAddress
  • The green solid line and dot indicatesAddr_type = PointAddressInt

• There is also a new code value for the MatchNarrative output field – b
  • The b value indicates that PointAddress interpolation was used to match the HouseNumber component.

Learn More About the ArcGIS Geocoding Service

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Additional Resources

For a detailed overview of the improvements in this update, visit our What’s New page.

If you have any questions or need software support, don’t hesitate to contact our dedicated support team. For further details on our data coverage, check out the ArcGIS Geocoding service Data Coverage page.