Working with Place Specifications

You use Place specifications to define geographic entities that can be located on a map, such as a state, city, street, postal address, campus, or building. Place entities answer the business question of where other inventory entities (such as subscribers, services, equipment, service terminations, and so on) are located.

There are four different types of Place specification that describe different geographical entities:

Location defines places based on geographic references.
Address defines ways to locate places based on textual information.
Address Range defines a group of addresses as a range, such as an address defined with a low street number and high street number.
Site define places that do not have a single, precise location like a regional office or a cell site that may change physical locations over time.

When working with Place specifications, see the following topics:

About the Site Place Type
About the Address Place Type
About the Address Range Place Type
About the Location Place Type
Defining Place Types
Place Specification Editor