Geocoding Canada
Benefit from real-time and batch geocoding. Optimize address quality with Canada Post SERP Match Logic. Gain the highest level of match accuracy. Boost efficiencies by simultaneously processing multiple requests. Map your results to enable better decision-making.
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Inform decision-making across your organization. Use MapMarker® Plus Canada for precision intelligence on customer and resource locations.
Start with the highest level of accuracy
MapMarker® Plus Canada location software takes advantage of the Canada Post SERP Match Logic to gain the highest level of address cleansing available.
Benefit from extraordinary coverage
You’ll gain in-depth street address-location information—even in towns with populations as small as 700.
Choose your geocoding method
Gain the precision you need, right down to powerful street-address-level accuracy.
Select your geocoding process
Choose Quick Find or Batch, to get your results efficiently—and fast.
Visualize your results
MapMarker® Plus Canada combines with Candidate Visualization to display geocoded locations in map format.
A powerful location intelligence tool, MapMarker® Plus Canada is ideal for business applications where precision counts, such as underwriting, trade-area assignment, site selection and target marketing.
Access: Ships with all provinces on one CD, immediately accessible via a customer service-issued unlock code. Accuracy: Uses powerful SERP address-cleansing match logic prior to geocoding. Includes candidates with full six-character postal codes. Displays all Local Delivery Units (LDUs) for a given Forward Sortation Area (FSA). Coverage: Provides in-depth street address location information with address ranges for towns with populations as small as 700. Methods: Enables you to select/combine geocoding methods, including address, intersection, street centroid, postal code and location centroid. Process Options: Batch: Geocodes an entire address or postal code file at once based on your choice of match restrictions and geocoding methods.
Interactive: After Batch Processing, allows you to go back through unmatched records and correct the non-matching addresses and postal codes.
Quick Find: Geocodes a single address, intersection or postal code. You choose one or a combination from among three independent match restrictions—house number, street name or postal code. Results display immediately with longitude and latitude coordinates and Dissemination Area (DAs) boundary identifiers. Results Codes: Enables you to determine whether a match was made, and what portions of the address were used, to confirm the quality of the match. Languages: Supports both English and French addresses. Visualization: Adding Candidate Visualization to MapMarker® Plus Canada enables desktop users to view the location of the customer on a map. Candidate Visualization automatically selects the correct maps for display.
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