{"id":7056,"date":"2022-06-22T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/uug-universal-geocoding-service-from-gugik\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:43:18","slug":"uug-universal-geocoding-service-from-gugik","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/definitions\/uug-universal-geocoding-service-from-gugik\/","title":{"rendered":"UUG \u2013 Universal Geocoding Service from GUGiK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/services.gugik.gov.pl\/uug\/\">The Universal Geocoding Service<\/a> is a service provided by GUGiK for geocoding addresses in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Advantages:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>free of charge, with no limitations<\/li>\n<li>fast<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Disadvantages:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>not resistant to typos<\/li>\n<li>It is necessary to provide the address in a specific format.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1\">\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1\">The address search service, based on the GUGiK API<br \/>\n<a class=\"sc-1ko78hw-0 fiVZLH\" title=\"http:\/\/services.gugik.gov.pl\/uug\/opis.html\" href=\"http:\/\/services.gugik.gov.pl\/uug\/opis.html\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">http:\/\/services.gugik.gov.pl\/uug\/opis.html<\/a> may take four forms:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ak-ul\" data-indent-level=\"1\">\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"135\">Locality, Street, Building Number<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"163\">Locality Building Number<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"184\">Locality, Street<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"206\">Locality<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"221\">Therefore, according to this format, it is not possible to search using only the street name. The best results are achieved by following the convention:  <code>Miejscowo\u015b\u0107, ulica numer<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universal Geocoding Service is a service provided by GUGiK for geocoding addresses in Poland. Advantages: free of charge, with no limitations fast Disadvantages: not resistant to typos It is necessary to provide the address in a specific format. The address search service, based on the GUGiK API http:\/\/services.gugik.gov.pl\/uug\/opis.html may take four forms: Locality, Street, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[83],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7056","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7785,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/7056\/revisions\/7785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}