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 ...
Help Santa Check It Twice: A Holiday Addressing Gift for You!
The holidays are fast approaching. Soon you’ll be celebrating the season and sending holiday gift baskets and cards to people you have enjoyed working with this year. So ...
Geocoding Resolution – Ensuring Accuracy and Precision
When geocoding addresses, coordinate precision is not as important as coordinate accuracy. It is a common misconception to confuse high precision decimal degree coordinates with high accuracy. Precision ...
The Dangers of Address Suggesters
At first glance, address suggestion services seem like a great idea. After all, wouldn't your customers appreciate being able to quickly fill in their addresses when filling out ...
