Enhance Address Matching with Geocoding
Watchman supports multiple geocoding providers to precisely determine coordinates for addresses, significantly improving the accuracy of location-based compliance screening. This feature, introduced in v0.57.0, populates Latitude and Longitude fields for all entity addresses.
Refer to the file configuration section for more information.
Providers
The supported providers are listed below. If you’d like to contribute or recommend a new provider open an issue.
The google geocoding provider uses Google Maps APIs for geocoding requests.
Nominatim
The nominatim geocoding provider uses Nominatim from OpenStreetMap to geocode requests.
For information on how to self-host refer to Nominatim’s documentation.
OpenCage
The opencagedata geocoding provider uses the OpenCage Geocoding API.