The Loqate Engine
Loqate maximizes the value of your location data – worldwide.
The Loqate Engine is global, covering over 240 countries around the world – that’s every populated world territory. So whether you’re trading in one country or globally, Loqate can meet your requirements – any language, any character set.
All modules utilize the Loqate Global Knowledge Repository containing definitive address and geographic reference data for 240+ countries. It is supplied as a developers toolkit for implementation on a vast choice of platforms, enabling easy integration into a wide range of applications.
Identify
Dynamic identification and geocoding of location data from Big Data, web pages, news feeds, or text using Loqate’s market leading entity extraction for use in internet search, intelligence, and forensics. Using advanced text analysis capabilities, Identify can capture key data elements in multiple languages and character sets using a combination of comprehensive underlying lexicons alongside advanced natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. and geocoding of location data from web pages, news feeds, or text using Loqate’s market leading entity extraction for use in internet search, intelligence and forensics.
Register
Real time entry of address data for a fast, accurate, and user friendly data entry experience in call center, CRM and e-Commerce environments. Users are returned instant results based on each character entered into the form, providing an intuitive experience for the user and ensuring only accurate data is entered into the database. The result is guaranteed clean data entry, positive customer experience, and reduced support costs due to greater efficiency in support interactions.
Verify
Worldwide address cleansing with the most advanced error tolerant parsing algorithms for the direct marketing, data quality and MDM markets. Robust parsing enables unrestrictive address cleansing and the software automatically puts components into the correct address field, making applications that process location data more accurate and of higher value. The process is also resilient to erroneous, non-address data. Verify can transliterate addresses between many languages and can format address to local standards.
Geocode
High granularity generation of a latitude longitude coordinate for any address worldwide, leveraging the most comprehensive multi-source reference data for GIS, Location Based Services, and any application where knowing the physical location is important. Geocode enables a latitude-longitude coordinate to be added to any world address and enjoys superior market leading breadth and depth of data, with worldwide coverage to city or postal code centroid, and delivery point/rooftop level coverage for over 170 countries.
Integration and Extensibility
The integration of all four components and the Loqate Global Knowledge Repository (GKR) make the difference in your application. The GKR contains reference data relating to postal addresses and other geographic points of interest for all 240+ populated countries and territories of the world. The GKR is used in conjunction with all other Loqate solutions and is the only reference database of its type with complete global coverage. Data is developed by Loqate and sourced directly from entities around the world and is licensed for use within the Loqate solutions. Have special requirements? Extend the GKR to meet your specific needs.
