About the Address Place Type

An Address specification can be used to define a standard address format to meet your business requirements and national postal standards. For example, you could define an Address specification that includes the following information:

Street address
City name
State or province
Country
Postal code

These individual pieces of information are called address components. You define them as characteristics and add them to a Place specification with the entity type of Address.

Address components are classified into the following categories:

Geographically based: Values for these components can be defined as a geographic location based on Location-type Place specification.
Non-geographically based: Values for these components cannot be defined as geographic locations, so they are typically captured as text.

For geographically-based address components, you can add characteristics to an Address specification that provide lists of entities of the appropriate type. See "Populating Drop-Down Lists" for more information.