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Keith-- awesome question.  Because I was just looking at the POI product, I'll say POI Brand name.  It's much harder to get that right than you'd think. ------------------------------ Dan Adams Pitney Bowes White River Junction VT ------------------------------

Hi Community-- I was just in a conversation with an exec at a company that is processing a large amount of IoT data.  He asked if PB is using a Global Gridding systems, and, if so, which one we selected and why.   I know we are, but didn't feel comfortable enough with the details to give much of ...

The term Data Curation has taken hold and is now mainstream enough to be picked up by both marketing teams and MBAs as one of the ways they explain "what the data people do".  Years ago, "data steward" was used to describe the care-takers of data within an organization. Data Steward is still widely ...

Hi Willow, I've often had questions about data availability and quality in India.  Having a sample geography for the products that are available in India may be helpful. ------------------------------ Dan Adams Pitney Bowes White River Junction VT ------------------------------

Colleen, I think the GPS data was operational data in that it was collected for internal operational purposes, but it certainly isn't generated within "business systems".    That's a good change.  I'm wondering if it can be made easier to read-- what do you think of this:    Internal Data Sources: ...

Jess, I agree these are useful steps we should take.  There is a lot of benefit to linking terms and showing the relationships of how certain types of data is/n't related. It also makes me that much more aware of how much work putting a complete glossary together is going to be.   Please feel welcomed ...

For the last couple of years, I have been looking for ways to build, maintain and share a glossary of terms that can be used by data related professionals.  With the launch of the Data community, there is an opportunity to utilize the power of this collective working group to share thoughts for building ...

Hi Tom,  One of the topics I've encountered in managing business listing data is that information is often inconsistent.  Fill rates can vary greatly from source to source, and even for different fields in the same source.   Data can also be very different from one geography to another.   How do ...

John, thanks for the information on how PB represents postal boundaries and postal points.  I know one of the challenges in creating boundaries is deciding on the level of generalization vs. detail used in creating a boundary.  Generalized boundaries tend to be more fit for thematic mapping and display, ...