In order to ensure your spreadsheet is geocoded properly, you need to check three things before uploading:

1. Whether it has headers (such as "address" or "street" / "city" and so forth),

2. Formatting the addresses or coordinates consistently in either single column or multiple-column format, and

3. Including the country (if geocoding Canadian or Mexican addresses).

You can upload .xls, .xlsx, .csv, .tsv, and .zip files for geocoding. Download a sample list: .XLSX (shows all acceptable formats), .CSV (shows multiple-column format only).

When you upload a file, we only add columns. We won't delete any information from your spreadsheet. You can see an example geocoded file here.

Data quality

Your addresses do not need to be complete. They just need to be formatted the same way (i.e. either single column or multiple column) with any of the following combinations of data:

• Street address, city, state/province, ZIP/postal code [+ 'Canada' for Canada or 'Mexico' for Mexico]

• Street address, ZIP/postal code [+ 'Canada' for Canada or 'Mexico' for Mexico]

• Street address, city, state/province [+ 'Canada' for Canada or 'Mexico' for Mexico]

• city, state/province [+ 'Canada' for Canada or 'Mexico' for Mexico]

• ZIP/postal code [+ 'Canada' for Canada or 'Mexico' for Mexico]

• Latitude/longitude

Geocodio can only accept five-digit ZIP codes as an input. If ZIP+4 is provided as an input, we will use the first five digits instead.

Spreadsheet Geocoding Formats

If you do not have data for a certain field (like postal code), you can just leave that blank.

Multiple-Column Format with Addresses

Single-Column Format with Addresses

Multiple-Column Format with Latitude/Longitude Coordinates

Note: your columns must be in Latitude | Longitude order.

Single-Column Format with Latitude/Longitude Coordinates

Note: your columns must be in Latitude | Longitude order.

1. Make sure your spreadsheet has headers

• You can name the header columns anything you like

• During the upload process, you'll get to choose which columns contain the address components.

2. Consistently format the addresses in one column or multiple columns

• You can put the address in a single column or split the address into separate columns

• The street number and name must be in the same column

• Addresses do not need to be complete; see here for a list of acceptable addresses

• If your spreadsheet includes addresses in both formats, you will need to split them into different lists, or concatenate the multi-column addresses into a single column prior to uploading

• If you choose to include ZIP Codes, use standard ZIP format instead of ZIP+4. We do not support ZIP+4 inputs.

Acceptable format: multiple-column Address data (street, city, state, ZIP) are split into multiple columns, and all addresses are formatted in the same way.

Acceptable format: single-column All of the address data is in a single cell, and all addresses are formatted the same way.

NOT acceptable: Mixed format Some addresses are formatted in a single cell, and some are spread across multiple cells. This would not process correctly. If your spreadsheet looks like this, you should split it into two spreadsheets. You can do this by filtering for addresses that have a blank second column and copy/pasting them into another spreadsheet.

3. If your spreadsheet includes addresses in Canada or Mexico, include a country column, or "Canada" or "Mexico" exactly

• With Canadian and Mexican addresses, a Country column must be present and it needs to say "Canada" or "Mexico" exactly (no abbreviations)

• If no country is given, USA will be assumed

• Note that you may input postal codes, but full postal codes will not be returned in the results as they are proprietary to Canada Post. (They will still be present in the original input columns, if you included them.)

• For Mexican addresses, the street number should be placed before the street name (e.g. "462 Cuauhtemoc" rather than "Cuauhtemoc 462")

Uploading Your Spreadsheet

You can upload your spreadsheet using our Spreadsheet Uploader tool:

• Spreadsheet Uploader - Self-Serve

• Spreadsheet Uploader - Enterprise

You can also upload your spreadsheet directly through our API using our Lists endpoints. These endpoints allow you to create, check the status of, and delete spreadsheets programmatically.

The Lists API requires some additional configuration, so please see our documentaiton first:

• Lists API Documentation - Self-Serve

• Lists API Documentation - Enterprise