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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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. <br /><br /><font class="titles">Empower your decision makers</font><br />With high-quality geocoding, you can: <ul><li>Increase the accuracy, immediacy and insight of your enterprise location intelligence</li><li>Easily integrate location information with other business data</li><li>Facilitate presentation of complex data via maps so decision makers can visualize relationships, see opportunities, and pursue next steps with increased confidence</li></ul><font class="titles">Gain confidence in your location intelligence</font><br />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. <br /><br /><font class="titles">Get the coverage you need—worldwide</font><br />Benefit from street and address point accuracy across more than 50 countries—and various levels of geocoding coverage across 200+ countries and territories worldwide. <br /><br />In all countries, a local language-specific parser is used. Conflation and cascading match logic ensure the highest available degree of precision. </p>
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<p><table border="0" style="width: 100%; border: #000000 1px solid"><tbody><tr><td class="bold">Coverage:</td><td>200+ countries and territories worldwide </td></tr><tr><td class="bold">Levels:</td><td>50+ countries with street and address-point accuracy <br />Other levels available include: <ul><li>Interpolated Street Address</li><li>Intersection</li><li>Property Boundaries (parcels)</li><li>Street Segment</li><li>Postal Codes</li><li>Highway Exit #'s</li><li>City / Place Centroid</li><li>Landmarks / Points of Interest / Business Name</li><li>Neighborhoods</li><li>User-Generated Street-centerline and Point Data</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="bold">Data:</td><td>Combines USPS and spatial data from TIGER, GDT, Tele Atlas or Navtech into a single unified data set.</td></tr><tr><td class="bold">Flexibility: </td><td>Quick, simple integration with key applications including mapping and spatial analysis </td></tr><tr><td class="bold">Accuracy:</td><td>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. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><font class="titles">Industry Applications</font> <br /><br /><font class="titles2">For marketing: </font><ul><li>Map coverage, customers, and competitors to determine prime target areas for promotional activities and ensure offers align with available services.</li><li>Integrate geocodes with points and parcel data helps identify all the possible customers easily supported through company infrastructure.</li></ul><font class="titles2">For asset management: </font><ul><li>Determine service availability and coverage</li><li>Visualize coverage gaps and best sites for installations and locations</li><li>Pinpoint Right-of-Way and Call-Before-You-Dig requirements</li></ul><font class="titles2">For retail site locations: </font><ul><li>Map current and competitive retail locations</li><li>Match locations against demographics for a clear indication of challenges and opportunities </li></ul><font class="titles2">For risk management: </font><ul><li>Determine the level of exposure at individual points on the map</li><li>Better estimate potential losses</li><li>Help customers purchase the correct amount of coverage at the right price</li></ul><font class="titles2">For municipalities and public sector: </font><ul><li>Improve constituent services </li><li>Determine eligibility for services and programs</li><li>Define voting precincts and polling locations</li><li>Map suspicious and criminal activity, identify patterns, solve crimes and destroy networks</li></ul><font class="titles2">For tax assignments: </font><ul><li>Stay abreast of constant shifts in jurisdiction boundaries </li><li>Ensure assignments are accurate and up-to-date</li><li>Avoid costly class-action suits on incorrect taxation</li></ul></p>
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<font class="titles">White Papers & Research Papers</font> <ul><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/the-geocoding-advantage-white-paper-2012.pdf">White Paper: The Geocoding Advantage - Best practices for managing customer and location-based data </a></li><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/enterprise-location-intelligence-white-paper-2012.pdf">White Paper: Enterprise Location Intelligence. Better decision making and more profitable operations. </a></li><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/business-strength-geocoding-white-paper-2012.pdf">White Paper: Business-strength Geocoding. Ten requirements for more cost-efficient and effective business decisions. </a></li><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/location-intelligence-white-paper-2012.pdf">White Paper: Location Intelligence Backwards and Forwards. Associating people and places in new and profitable ways</a></li><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/using-geocoding-for-a-competitive-edge-2012.pdf">Ventana Research Paper: Using Geocoding for a Competitive Edge. Five Reasons to Geocode your Business Data</a></li><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/perspective-evaluation-criteria-for-enterprise-geocoding-2012.pdf">Ventana Research Paper: Evaluation Criteria for Enterprise Geocoding. Choosing the right software to provide Location Intelligence</a></li></ul><font class="titles">Case Studies</font> <ul><li><a href="/docs/US/pdf/software/data-products/willis-case-study-2012.pdf">Case Study: Willis</a></li></ul><font class="titles">Articles</font> <ul><li><a href="http://www.streetauthority.com/value-investing/why-old-company-might-deserve-place-your-portfolio-459297">Why this "Old" Company Might Deserve a Place in Your Portfolio</a></li><li><a href="http://postandparcel.info/47582/news/companies/pitney-bowes-to-step-up-digital-plans-after-winning-facebook-deal/">Pitney Bowes to step up digital plans, after winning Facebook deal</a> </li><li><a href="http://apb.directionsmag.com/entry/facebook-is-using-pitney-bowes-software-for-geocoding/259506">Facebook is Using Pitney Bowes Software for Geocoding</a></li></ul></p>
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