Using Location vs Address

[Mike Guilbault]

Other than showing locations on a map, are there any other advantages to using Location for the address of a contact or company? I’ve usually seen separate fields for address, city, province, postal code, etc. If you use location, can you still print labels?

[Brendan]

Hi Mike,

The Location file will do a reverse address lookup so that for any given geographic coordinate, it can find out the address. But the format you get for the address might not be ideal for a mailing label.

So you might want separate fields anyway. That also gives you the ability to build saved searches that search for records in specific cities, countries, streets, etc.

Thanks,

Brendan

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