Simpler API Pricing
We’re excited about upcoming changes to our API plans and pricing that make them simpler and give you more value. They’ll take effect early May. We’ll follow up in a week with the pricing, but here’s an overview to get started. Let us know if anything isn’t clear.
It doesn’t change how you use the APIs, but will help you get more value out of them.
Beta API update: More addresses, better linkages, every building
Our Predictive API has been due an update for some time. We’ve been hard at it adding a bunch of new stuff to make it more configurable and useful than ever before. Let’s jump into it!
New Beta Feature - Overhanging Tree
Hi Beta Testers,
New to beta this week is more data from our Geoscape® dataset. The ‘OverhangingTree’ attribute lets you know if there is a tree intersecting the boundary of a building. We believe this could be useful for customers in the insurance or energy sectors. Don't leave risk to chance. Use this new data to reduce your risk profile and understand potential challenges with solar installation without the need for a site visit.
New Beta Feature - ASGS Remoteness Areas
Hi Beta Testers,
Following discussions with our valued beta dev community, we're looking at adding more data from our friends at @ABSStats, specifically the ASGS Remoteness Areas off the Remoteness Structure. This addition will help you find the remoteness classifications of addresses from both the 2011 and 2016 national census data.
Have your say on primary building identification in our Addresses API
Hi Beta Testers,
As we continue to respond to your feedback on our APIs, we’ve developed a new feature that will reduce the number of calls required to identify the primary building at any given address. This time and money saver is designed to help you quickly and efficiently locate important details about an address and building.
New Feature Alert!
Hi Beta Testers,
As part of our valued Beta testing group, we’re providing you with advance access to the latest Buildings API feature. We’ve just added a reverse geocoder that provides another way into our award-winning Geoscape dataset.
You don't need to provide a location address, simply point us in the right direction and we’ll do the rest. So if you have a lat/long we can provide details of the closest building or you can set a radius up to 100 metres – feedback is welcome as we may increase this – and we’ll return everything within that range.
Sample Code
Hi Developers,
We have been playing around with new API documentation and it makes it very easy to generate sample code, if anyone needs simple Javascript code to geocode an address via PSMA's Address API.
Geoscape Release 6
Hi All,
Great news! Today we have added the building's data from Geoscape Release 6 to both the beta and production API's
More info on the geographical areas added can be seen here Geoscape Rollout Map
Cheers
Patrick
New Release of Addresses API (Reverse Geocoder)
Hey Developers,
We've released a new version of the Addresses API. In this release we've added in a feature that has been largely requested, we now have a reverse geocoder. At this time it's a simple reverse geocoder allowing you to query the addresses endpoint with a latitude and longitude separated by a comma. In addition, you can specify the radius on that point to search the default is 50 meters. search results are returned in an ordered list from closest to furthest from the supplied lat long. We'd love some feedback on how we can improve the reverse geocoder.