World Geocoding Service - "sourceCountry" parameter

Question

The World Geocoding Service has the "sourceCountry" parameter. I have been using the World Geocoding Service using this parameter and it does not seem to respect the USA source country code, or any other. Is this a known issue? Is there a bug?

BradNiemand · Answer

Unfortunately yes this is how it will work currently.  We plan to add sourceCountry as a parameter to suggest later this year which I believe will solve your issues.

Brad

ErnestoCarreras3 · Answer

Are you talking about the REST API?  Find does restrict results only for the USA when you pass in sourceCountry.  Currently the suggest API doesn't support sourceCountry as a parameter so it will not restrict suggestions when passing in sourceCountry.

Suggest doc:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/#/Working_with_suggestions/02r300000238000000/

Find doc:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/#/Single_input_field_geocoding/02r300000015000000/

As you can see, the parameter exists on the Find method but not the Suggest method.

Brad

Thanks for the information. Just to be clear... the source Country will only work on Find and not Suggest. Does that means if I set source country equals to USA, when a user types down an address, addresses outside the USA will still show as suggested addresses but if they are selected they won�??t geocode?

BradNiemand · Answer

Are you talking about the REST API?  Find does restrict results only for the USA when you pass in sourceCountry.  Currently the suggest API doesn't support sourceCountry as a parameter so it will not restrict suggestions when passing in sourceCountry.

Suggest doc:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/#/Working_with_suggestions/02r300000238000000/

Find doc:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/#/Single_input_field_geocoding/02r300000015000000/

As you can see, the parameter exists on the Find method but not the Suggest method.

Brad