Preparing your geocode source data

Your geocode data must be specially formatted as floating-point values in order to be successfully indexed by Dgidx.

In order for Dgidx to successfully index it, your geocode data must be in the form d,d where each d is a double precision floating-point value:

The first d is the latitude of the location in whole and fractional degrees. Positive values indicate north latitude and negative values indicate south latitude.
The second d is the longitude of the location in whole and fractional degrees. Positive values indicate east longitude, and negative values indicate west longitude.

Example

For example, a company’s main office is located at 42.365615 north latitude, 71.075647 west longitude. This geocode should be supplied to Dgidx as:

42.365615,-71.075647

If your source data is not available in this format, it can be assembled from separate properties using a Perl manipulator. See the Forge API Guide for Perl for examples of using a Perl manipulator to concatenate separate properties into one.