2024 Q1.1 API Minor release and 202403 Data release Notes
From April Loqate will introduce a global enhanced dataset that will be available to all customers. Initially this dataset will contain a new additional address element to indicate if a property is Residential or Commercial or of mixed use, where we have access to that information. This will be rolled out over the rest of this year for the countries where this data is and becomes available. Details of this will be added to the monthly data release notes.
Release Details
The setup wizard for the Local API can be obtained from our SFTP server. Please contact your account manager to retrieve the SFTP information. If you do not know who your account manager is, please contact the support team at support@loqate.com.
Note: If you are using the command line to connect to the SFTP server, you will need to use ‘sftp user@site’ format instead of just ‘sftp site’.
The 2024 Q1.1 Minor Release makes improvements to the verification process and the quality of the results. These enhancements are tied to both the data and the API so please update both.
Loqate has resolved several data related support cases as part of this release and details can be found in the Data Release Notes.
If you need any assistance with the upgrade of the API or the data update process, please contact GBG Loqate Support. The md5checksum can be used to help ensure the data packs have been fully downloaded. If you would like to see a list of md5checksums for this release please visit the md5 hash value guide or contact your account manager.
API Notices
There is one customer case fix to our API in this release along with one internal certification engine improvement. The details of these are available in the API Release Notes below.
- To download a PDF version of the API Release Notes, please click here
- To download a DOCX version of the API Release Notes, please click here
202403 Data Notices
This release includes data updates for 23 countries – Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Gurnsey, India, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Jersey, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Viet Nam.
Please see the Data Release Notes below for details on these updates and case fixes.
- To download a PDF version of the Data Release Notes, please click here
- To download a DOCX version of the Data Release Notes, please click here
Geographic Hierarchy Release Notes
- To download a PDF version of the Geographic Hierarchy (Seed) Release Notes, please click here
- To download a DOCX version of the Geographic Hierarchy (Seed) Release Notes, please click here
Additional Information
For a list of resolved support cases, please click here
A list of supported platforms for this release can be found here
The information on the SFTP file contents for the release is available here
The installation instructions are available here