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Posted By Mike Ashmore 12-19-2023 23:59
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In Colorado cannabis was legalized in November 2012. The housing development in the image above was built in Longmont way before in 2005. So there really were no excuses for the crazy decisions made by the addressing authority. I'm therefore putting this all down to creative expression. First, observe ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 11-28-2023 23:21
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Addresses are hierarchical labeling systems that categorize locations starting with the smallest definable geographic area, such as an apartment, and expanding out to the larger geographic areas with country being the largest. For most of the world this is relatively straightforward, but in my motherland, ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 11-22-2023 01:18
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It sounds crazy, but all over the United States there are houses that are assigned with, what we call, fractional house numbers. This picture is one I snapped in Louisville, Colorado in the spring, trying to avoid small talk at a kids birthday party. And yes, you are seeing the address correctly, ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 11-15-2023 00:45
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There is no need for a fun title when Address Jigging sounds so funny and is a real thing! And I know it sounds funny because when I talk about it, people laugh at me (you know who you are). Address jigging is a clever technique for committing fraud that involves subtly modifying your ecommerce ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 11-08-2023 00:11
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As you drive on Interstate 70 past the plunging rock cliffs of Glenwood Canyon just outside of Glenwood Springs Colorado, you pass the sign to one of the best-named places ever. No Name Colorado is a tiny community, where people first began living in 1874. In the 2020 census, it boasted all ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 11-01-2023 00:59
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When moving to the US from the UK, one of the cultural differences I first noticed was the American predilection for branding everything. The title of this post was inspired by an experience I had just 2 weeks after moving to the country when in a Walgreens (notice I branded a drug store), an elderly ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-25-2023 00:29
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I could write many blog posts about Addressing in the United Kingdom, and I probably will – it being my motherland and so very challenging. But one of the things that stands out the most to people who notice address is the house number and naming standards. With historical context this bonkers standard ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-18-2023 01:21
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I used to visit upstate New York a lot – the MapInfo head office was in Troy and many of our Location Intelligence experts were based out of that office. On my back to the airport, I would sometimes pass Bacon Lane – yes, I am that guy who pulls over to take photos of interesting signs and addresses! ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-10-2023 18:43
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New York City has a practice called co-naming streets. Co-Naming is where the street retains its existing name – often those numbered streets – and given an extra name to honor an individual or organization. The legislation to co-name streets is brought by New York City Council usually twice a year and ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-03-2023 12:35
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My favorite scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian asks what have the Romans ever done for us? "Well, obviously, the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they?" And to improve the utility of the roads, the Romans also gave us the itinerarium, arguably the first step in the evolution of ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 07-12-2019 11:59
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Hi Marcus, We release the global geocoding dataset update on the 15th of the month following the end of the fiscal quarter - without fail! Mike ------------------------------ Mike Ashmore Director of Product Management PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE Boulder CO ------------------------------
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-20-2018 21:56
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Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-20-2018 21:56
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Today is world statistics day. So for fun, Nishant Sinha, our technical product manager for Non-US geocoding analyzed the most frequently occurring thoroughfare types that appear across our global geocoding data. Naturally, we were looking at the Latinized script and English Language variants of those ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-19-2018 13:53
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Hi John, what we done in the API service is always provide the best-of-the-best datasets we can provide. With geocoding we always recommend to our geocoding customers to run a street geocoding dataset as the base as these provide coverage and then to add address points to it to provide address integrity ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-06-2018 06:08
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On 15th of the month following the end of every quarter we release our global geocoding data refresh. Here is an extract of the release notes for the October 15th release:   The Q4 2018 data refresh for the Enterprise Geocoding (EGM) and Global Geocoding (GGM) modules is now available.  This ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 10-06-2018 01:40
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Hi Keith, You can find some details here: http://support.pitneybowes.com/SearchArticles/VFP05_KnowledgeWithSidebarHowTo?id=kA180000000CtazCAC&popup=false;&lang=en_US And if you go beyond your 1000 or 2000 credits, you can sign up for more on a standard API plan at https://locate.pitneybowes.com/ ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 07-20-2018 16:19
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I really like how to the PositionIT magazine (based in South Africa) summarized our Geocoding White Paper and published it in a super-easy to understand way.   http://z.positionit.ee.co.za/2685/01_07_2018#page/49
Posted By Mike Ashmore 07-20-2018 12:47
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HI Steve, What datasets are you using? I put the address into my Geocoding Demo Site and found the result to be: This result is against Master Location Data. The Match Code (S806) which scored how well the input matched the output, translates as follows: S= Matched to USPS data 8= ZIP ...
Posted By Mike Ashmore 04-25-2018 15:55
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Hi Steve, this question is coming up quite frequently at the moment. A lot of companies have been using what appears to be a ranged address (i.e. 113-115 Quincy St) for this as well and ranged addresses dont formally exist despite what might be written on the side of a building - there are hyphenated ...