Loqate Blog
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2013 2:26 pm by Christina Rivera
So it looks like we aren’t the only kids on the block having to deal with bad addresses. Whether it be electronic or hand-written data, there continues to be this struggle with having to decipher poor input. For those familiar with evaluating address data quality, I’m sure you have run into addresses with junk data or descriptive addresses such as “the house down the street from the red barn” or just plain old addresses written in chicken scratch or as if by a doctor writing up a prescription.
>Read more
Posted on Wednesday March 20, 2013 3:47 pm by Ellen Cohen
In my role as a salesperson at Loqate, I’m frequently asked questions about the source or quality of our reference data. It’s usually in the form of “how do you guys do in [
insert country name]? Or “how do you do against [
insert competitor’s name] in [
insert country name]. If you’re reading this, you probably know how hard it is to provide a meaningful answer to either of the above questions.
>Read more
Posted on Tuesday February 26, 2013 10:23 am by Christina Rivera
With the
advent of the Asthmapolis inhaler, one which has attached to it a GPS sensor, it seems like we are making great strides in identifying if people’s chronic ailments are related to their environment. Known as the field of geomedicine, medical researchers are finding it useful to use GIS technology to see if there is in fact a direct correlation between location and health.
>Read more
Posted on Thursday December 6, 2012 8:15 am by Geoff Roach
The days of sending long addresses and complex directions are over. The new website
lqt.me, powered by Loqate, enables you to create a URL that you can embed in emails, websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, or any kind of communication.
>Read more
Posted on Wednesday December 5, 2012 1:14 pm by Geoff Roach
The above quote is attributed to W. Edwards Deming. No one can actually find that Deming actually said this. So let's imagine that he did say it for it has some lessons for address data quality.
A few years ago, I was giving a presentation to a group about software engineering methods, procedures, and tools. An executive asked me if his group adopted some of these ideas, would his group become 25% more productive.
>Read more
Posted on Monday November 5, 2012 4:11 pm by Christina Rivera
The only thing that would’ve made the Microsoft Build 2012 developer conference better was if the exhibitors each received complimentary Surfaces and Windows 8 mobile phones as well! All kidding aside, it was a pretty neat experience to visit the huge campus of the
Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA. It really was like a mini city of its own, with its mall-like stores and food court.
>Read more
Posted on Wednesday October 31, 2012 4:30 pm by Dominic Kemball
With
Windows Azure taking the center stage today at the
Microsoft Build 2012 conference, we looked forward to meeting a wide range of developers and companies who are already using Azure and those planning big things on the new platform.
Loqate are one of the first providers to offer international address capture, validation and geocoding through Azure as an add-on service or module, and it couldn’t be easier to set-up and integrate!
>Read more
Posted on Tuesday October 30, 2012 5:14 pm by Katy Hammond
Katy and Dom report back on their experiences from Day One at the
Microsoft Build Conference at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Seattle. Loqate were selected to present their International Address Capture, Verification & Geocoding solutions, available through the Cloud on the recently launched
Windows Azure Store!
>Read more
Posted on Tuesday October 30, 2012 6:57 am by Geoff Roach
Recently, a Loqate customer sent us a question about geocode accuracy codes returned by The Loqate Engine. The addresses were next to each other on the same street, but had three different codes. It doesn't seem to make sense that they would have different codes at first glance. Looking under the covers a bit at how geocodes and the corresponding accuracy codes are computed reveals why and when this happens.
>Read more
Posted on Monday October 15, 2012 1:40 pm by Geoff Roach
Here at Loqate we pride ourselves on helping people make locations right. Every once in a while it helps to be in the right location.
That's exactly what happened on September 21 around 11:30 am when the Space Shuttle Endeavour flew almost directly over the Loqate headquarters in San Bruno. The Loqate office cleared as we went outside to see a never again event. Juan Silva, one of the great customer support people, caught the shuttle carried by a 747.
>Read more
