Locator Data: Multiple City Spellings
Basic Info
Use this data in a Store Locator to validate a city's spelling
Webmasters: are you developing a locator / store locator application? Do you allow users to type
in a city name in an address, or do you allow them to find the nearest
dealer or store by entering in their city and state? If so, then you
need our Multi-City Spellings (MCS) data file!
What occurs in a locator is that a customer or user will often abbreviate or misspell a city and you won't get an exact match, which will generate an error. At best, the customer may figure out what happened and fix it; at worst, they will become annoyed and leave your site at the point where they're placing an order!
The MCS file is a file which consists of just two fields: Non-standard
City Name and Standard City Name.
These cities are found in both the U.S. and Canada. The non-standard
name has just about any normal way a person may abbreviate or misspell
a city and the standard name has the way we spell that city in our
data files. You can then match up the correct city name and eliminate
generating an error message which saves time and hassle for the customer
(they may even be impressed at how well you did matching up the name!).
A few additional details:
- A good example of a name that can have many abbreviations is 'Fort Myers Beach'. You can abbreviate it: Ft Myers Beach, Ft. Myers Beach, Fort Myers Beach, Ft Myers Bch, Ft. Myers Bch, Fort Myers Bch..
- Other abbreviations which we have, that people have actually used in typing in their city name on-line: PHX (Phoenix), ATL (Atlanta), BKLYN (Brooklyn).
- For locators that need to search by city, you should be using our Pro-ZIP Code Deluxe with Latitude and Longitude, along with our City Centerpoints files which will complete your locator data needs.
- Pro-ZIP Code Deluxe with Latitude and Longitude has multiple cities per ZIP Code. There is no other file like it. It has clean, manually verified place names which is unlike products that have been derived from USPS data and has about 75,000 - 80,000 records. That file has a lot of junk records.
- Our City Centerpoints file has the latitude and longitude coordinates for each city in our Deluxe database.
- More locator development details here.
Why it's better:
- Doesn't the U.S. Postal Service (and their resellers)
have a similar product?
No! They have a file of over 75,000 ZIP Code records which has some alternate spellings for a city, but they don't have every combination. Also, this file is at the postal code level, not the city level, and is full of error records which shouldn't be included in a ZIP database (such as business names, post office names, improperly spelled city names, etc.) - As an added bonus, we include Canadian city names as well which matches our Canadian Postal Code data with Latitude and Longitude.
Pricing:
The price for this manually verified product is only $350 per year.
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