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What Is Geomatching

Tables often reference countries, states, or other regions without including the geometry themselves. Historically, you’d have to join this data with other datasets to work with it on a map. Felt does this automatically with Geomatching.

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Available Geomatching Regions

Data will be checked for the geographic regions listed below and converted to polygon geometries when possible. Optionally, hints present in the column name can be used to choose among valid matches, such as “zip” used to name a column of U.S. ZIP codes.

Source Example Values Column Name Hints
Countries Natural Earth Admin 0
United States point of view Names: United States, Ukraine
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes: US, UA
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes: USA, UKR country, nation, adm0, admin0, admin-0
Global First-Order Admin Areas Natural Earth Admin 1
States, provinces, etc. Names: California, Kiev
ISO 3166-2 codes: US-CA, UA-32
Admin-1 codes: USA-3521, UKR-321 state, province, adm1, admin1, admin-1
Global Time Zones OSM Timezone Boundary Builder Names: America/Los_Angeles, Europe/Kyiv tz, tzinfo, timezone, time zone
EU Statistical Units (NUTS 1) Eurostat GISCO Reference Data Names: Thüringen, Αττική
NUTS codes: DEG, EL3 state, province, region, nuts
EU Statistical Units (NUTS 2) Eurostat GISCO Reference Data Names: Lazio, Θεσσαλία
NUTS codes: ITI4, EL61 state, province, region, nuts
EU Statistical Units (NUTS 3) Eurostat GISCO Reference Data Names: Eure-et-Loir, Essex Thames Gateway
NUTS codes: FRB02, UKH37 state, province, region, nuts
EU Local Admin. Units (LAU) Eurostat GISCO Reference Data Names: Eggendorf im Traunkreis, Čejč
LAU codes: AT_41004, 586099
GISCO codes: AT_41004, CZ_586099 municipio, municipality, commune, comuni, gemeinde, lau
US States U.S. Census 2022 boundary file Names: California, New York
Postal codes: CA, NY
FIPS codes: 06, 04000US36, 0400000US48 state
US Counties U.S. Census 2021 boundary file FIPS codes: 06001, 05000US36061, 0500000US48453 county
US CBSAs U.S. Census 2022 boundary file Names: San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area
FIPS codes: 41860, 33000US35620, 3300000US12420 cbsa
US Zip Codes USPS ZIP locale detail
U.S. Census 2012 boundary file
U.S. Census 2022 boundary file ZIP codes: 94612, 06511 zip, zipcode, postcode
US Census Tracts U.S. Census 2022 boundary file FIPS codes: 06001402900, 14000US09170141900, 1400000US48453001103 tract

Reviewing Accuracy

Sometimes we can’t match all the codes in your data. You can check how well the Geomatching process went by clicking on the Review accuracy prompt after upload. Or you can toggle these results any time you want from the overflow menu (three dots) in the upper corner by clicking on Review accuracy...

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You can download the Geomatching Results in order to fine-tune your input if needed.

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Troubleshooting

See the Troubleshooting Data Problems page for common upload failures and how to fix them.