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The majority of our systems use the property location service to validate an address search. Improvements have been made to the service to increase search results, and include:
special symbols and non-standard characters (eg., @, !, + etc).
extra non-standard abbreviations were added to enable better finding of matches.
improvements to how road names/partial road names of type display (i.e. The Promenade, Esplanade etc). The road suffix (East, North etc) is now part of the road name.
results lists from auto-complete and address validation are no sorted by unit and street number (including non-variants found in the address database).
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