Address Validation Service vs. Address Verification Service (AVS)
Some terms sound similar but aren’t actually interchangeable – like sympathy versus empathy or good versus well. In the data quality business, two similar phrases with totally separate ...
How Data Quality Tools Help Save Mother’s Day
We have many mission-critical applications for our products. But every year in May, one of the most critical ones is keeping moms happy on Mother’s Day. After all, ...
Using Geocoding for Target Marketing
What can a little latitude and longitude do for your marketing? A great deal, as it turns out. For starters, geotargeting – or the use of geographic coordinates ...
DOTS Address Validation – US 3: Delivery Point Validation Explained
One of the features of our DOTS Address Validation - US 3 service is Delivery Point Validation, or DPV for short. DPV codes help you determine whether an ...
Fun Facts About ZIP Codes
Addresses in the United States used to be a simple matter of a street location, a city and state, and perhaps a city-specific postal zone. But by the ...
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: Understanding Geocoding
When Jimmy Buffett sang the title of this blog post years ago, he may not have realized that he was talking about things like geocoding and data mining ...
NCOA Live FAQ: Your Change of Address Questions Answered
Our DOTS NCOA Live service is a real-time API that compares your contact data with the USPS’ National Change of Address (NCOA) database, which contains address data for ...
Tutorial: Address Suggestor using Google’s Places API & Service Objects’ Address Validation API
Accurate address autocomplete At Service Objects, our mission is to ensure contact data is ‘genuine, accurate and up-to-date.’ This can be challenging when it comes to our clients ...
Address Deduplication Using USPS Barcodes
When are two addresses actually the same? And when can you remove one of them from your contact database? The answer isn’t as simple as it sounds. Suppose ...
