International Geocoding
For optimal insights and geo-informed decision making, look to Pitney Bowes for the highest quality geocoding solutions. Coverage spans 200+ countries and territories. Built-in address verification and cascading logic ensure accuracy. Spatial analysis tools let you easily visualize results.
Overview | Features | Resources |
Now you can generate accurate geocodes for every market with a single source—adding consistency, simplicity and efficiency to your operation, while improving the quality of every decision.
Empower your decision makers
With high-quality geocoding, you can:
- Increase the accuracy, immediacy and insight of your enterprise location intelligence
- Easily integrate location information with other business data
- Facilitate presentation of complex data via maps so decision makers can visualize relationships, see opportunities, and pursue next steps with increased confidence
Our international geocoding is built on addresses that have been carefully validated and standardized to ensure accuracy. It utilizes a single API for ease of deployment. And it offers a vast selection of data to match your geocoding level and geographic coverage needs.
Get the coverage you need—worldwide
Benefit from street and address point accuracy across more than 50 countries—and various levels of geocoding coverage across 200+ countries and territories worldwide.
In all countries, a local language-specific parser is used. Conflation and cascading match logic ensure the highest available degree of precision.
Coverage: | 200+ countries and territories worldwide |
Levels: | 50+ countries with street and address-point accuracy Other levels available include:
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Data: | Combines USPS and spatial data from TIGER, GDT, Tele Atlas or Navtech into a single unified data set. |
Flexibility: | Quick, simple integration with key applications including mapping and spatial analysis |
Accuracy: | Global address verification is built in A consistent API is used across countries Conflation and cascading match logic is applied against an extensive selection of Pitney Bowes and third-party databases to yield the best available results. |
Industry Applications
For marketing:
- Map coverage, customers, and competitors to determine prime target areas for promotional activities and ensure offers align with available services.
- Integrate geocodes with points and parcel data helps identify all the possible customers easily supported through company infrastructure.
- Determine service availability and coverage
- Visualize coverage gaps and best sites for installations and locations
- Pinpoint Right-of-Way and Call-Before-You-Dig requirements
- Map current and competitive retail locations
- Match locations against demographics for a clear indication of challenges and opportunities
- Determine the level of exposure at individual points on the map
- Better estimate potential losses
- Help customers purchase the correct amount of coverage at the right price
- Improve constituent services
- Determine eligibility for services and programs
- Define voting precincts and polling locations
- Map suspicious and criminal activity, identify patterns, solve crimes and destroy networks
- Stay abreast of constant shifts in jurisdiction boundaries
- Ensure assignments are accurate and up-to-date
- Avoid costly class-action suits on incorrect taxation
White Papers & Research Papers
- White Paper: The Geocoding Advantage - Best practices for managing customer and location-based data
- White Paper: Enterprise Location Intelligence. Better decision making and more profitable operations.
- White Paper: Business-strength Geocoding. Ten requirements for more cost-efficient and effective business decisions.
- White Paper: Location Intelligence Backwards and Forwards. Associating people and places in new and profitable ways
- Ventana Research Paper: Using Geocoding for a Competitive Edge. Five Reasons to Geocode your Business Data
- Ventana Research Paper: Evaluation Criteria for Enterprise Geocoding. Choosing the right software to provide Location Intelligence
- Why this "Old" Company Might Deserve a Place in Your Portfolio
- Pitney Bowes to step up digital plans, after winning Facebook deal
- Facebook is Using Pitney Bowes Software for Geocoding