About the Location Place Type

You use the Location type for places that can be specifically defined by geographic references. Locations can be very specific places, such as a residence, or more general places, such as a city or province. In UIM, you create these hierarchies in the Place Hierarchy section of the Place Summary page.

You can geocode a location to identify its placement on the face of the earth and to enable geographic visualizations of your network or business.

Using geographic coordinates also makes it possible to calculate distances between locations.