The world is suddenly in a very different retail environment than anyone ever expected just a few months ago. The global COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the business model for most retailers, some...
Service Objects has long offered capabilities for geocoding US and Canadian addresses. Now, to better serve the global marketplace, we are pleased to announce the release of DOTS Address Geocode –...
Service Objects currently offers a total of 25 data quality products, ranging from contact data validation to detailed sales and use tax calculation. But our roots began in 2001 with address validation,...
The term address geocoding often refers to the process of transforming a textual representation of an address into an equivalent latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate interpretation. For example, taking...
Introduction Our DOTS Address Insight - US API is a composite address-based service that provides insight and intelligence for a given location. The service has three core areas: Address validation to...
What does it mean to geocode? Our DOTS Address Geocode – US web service provides latitude and longitude coordinates along with other metadata information about a physical US address. This includes...
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, customer satisfaction is important in...
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 1960s, between massive increases in mail volume and the...
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. But in point of fact, he was. In this post I would...
Service Objects has been returning location-based tax rates in the DOTS FastTax API since 2001. Back then, we identified sales tax rates using only zip code. Since zip codes could cross multiple city and...
Google Maps is an amazing service. Much of the civilized world has now been mapped through its data sources, ranging from satellite data to its ubiquitous camera-mounted vehicles. The result is a tool that...
Service Objects is pleased to welcome a new service to our lineup, DOTS Address Insight - US. Built on the core of our USPS CASS Certified DOTS Address Validation - US and DOTS Address Geocode - US...
The golden rule of marketing has always been, “know your customer.” In today’s regulatory environment, however, it might be more accurate to say, “know your customer – or else!” Nowadays...
Is a mailing address the same as a physical address? No, not always. In general, a mailing address can often be the same as a street address, but this is not always the case. To understand why, we...
The Service Objects’ team watched the steady stream of images from Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath and we wanted to know, ‘What can we do to help?’ We realized the best thing we could do is...
“Did you know that nearly 30 million Americans move each year? Did you also know that government agencies like counties, cities, and states are required to keep accurate and up to date records of their...
This is where the US government comes in. The federal universal service high-cost program – also known as the Alternative-Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) – is designed to ensure that consumers in...
For businesses engaged in commerce, it is a real challenge to stay on top of ever changing sales and use tax rates. One minor tax rate change can have a direct impact on your customers, costing your...
In November of 2016, Google started rolling out updates to more clearly distinguish their Geocoding and Places APIs, both of which are a part of the Google Maps API suite. The Places API was introduced in...
In a recent blog we discussed how to identify Incorporated and Unincorporated places. There are a number of reasons this is important, one of them being to determine accurate area tax rates. As mentioned...
The US Census Bureau uses the term "place" to refer to an area associated with a concentrated population, such as a municipality, city, town, village or community. These statistical areas have a defined...
Here at Service Objects, we are constantly working to improve or add useful features to our services so we can continue to be an industry leader in providing our customers with quality data. We are always...
Residents in many smaller towns and rural areas in the United States do not receive residential mail delivery from the USPS. They're living off the grid, the postal grid, that is. In communities such as...
Getting Your Mail Delivered In 2014, the United States Postal Service reported that 4.3% of all mail was ‘Undeliverable as Addressed’ (UAA). At first glance, this doesn’t seem too bad, BUT this...
You found a Magikarp in your neighbor's swimming pool or met a few new friends collecting Pokémon characters at the local duck pond. It's all good fun until... ...Until you realize that your location,...
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 is...
The real estate industry can gain a competitive edge with data validation Data-based marketing, outreach and lead generation isn’t only for cutting-edge B2B companies anymore. Data runs the world these...
Location, location, location. Those are often claimed to be the three most important words in real estate. Since new homeowners need to properly insure their new investment, location, location, location...
Not another marketing theory: Read how technology works on the issues that may be limiting your sales and/or damaging your online reputation. Successful e-commerce companies have three things in common:...
All over the country businesses have popped up to bring quality sit-down restaurant meals into our homes. In the Pacific Northwest, Dinner Delivery Plus is one such business. Serving the Greater Eastside...
SANTA BARBARA, CA — December 23, 2008 — Service Objects announced today that its DOTS Address Geocode Web Service will play an important role as Santa Claus drives his sleigh around the world tomorrow...
This week I'd like to discuss an important update to our DOTS Address Geocode - US Web Service. One of our many sources for geocoding US addresses is the TIGER/Line database, published by the Census...
