SERVICES
Geocoding
Premium Services
If your company needs Compliance-grade or high precision geocoding, you need RATA's Premium geocoding services. Address files geocoded to Compliance-grade standards will:
- Reflect data definitions for the current reporting year only
- Contain geocode results for every address record processed
- Have no detectable errors
- Have a verifiable precision level of 95% or greater
- Contain geocode results that are traceable to the address matching engine and reference file used to produce them
Address files received for Premium geocoding are processed iteratively by RATA's skilled staff through each of our multiple automated and interactive address standardization and matching routines until all unmatched addresses that can possibly be geocoded are resolved. RATA's proprietary Premium processing method thus assures that your files are geocoded to the highest possible completion and precision levels.
Though it is possible under optimal circumstances for a company using other geocoding solutions to match the quality results of RATA's Premium geocoding services, you won't beat our results. That's because no single address-matching engine or reference file can return 100% complete and accurate results all of the time, and it takes experienced and skilled staff to perform the interactive portion of the work.
Most companies that attempt to geocode their data internally use only one address matching engine, and few companies are able to sustain a staff experienced in executing the process. RATA uses seven (7) proprietary and commercially available address matching engines, organized in a 13-step process that maximizes the strengths and minimizes the weaknesses of each matching engine. Our Geocoding Team boasts more than 65 years of collective geocoding experience, and has geocoded more than 35 million addresses during the past 5 years. You employ all of these resources and experience when you license RATA's Premium geocoding services.
The standard geocode data elements returned to the customer purchasing Premium processing are: MSA/MD (Metropolitan Statistical Area/Metropolitan Division), FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) State, County, and Census tract codes. Latitude and Longitude coordinates are also provided at no additional charge.
Premium geocoding is typically completed within one business day. Express three day geocoding is available upon request for an additional fee for volumes under 30,000 addresses.
For additional details about our Premium geocoding services, please see our HMDA/CRA Geocoding Services page.
For pricing and ordering information, please contact our Sales department.
