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Large Volume Receivers (LVR)

Any postal codes that begin with LVR have been assigned this special postal code by Canada Post as the volume of mail being received is equal or greater than 200 mail pieces per day. A building or even a unit within a building may receive this special postal code as a result of their volumes.

Latitude

The first component of a spherical coordinate system used to record positions on the earth’s surface. Latitude indicates the angular distance north or south of the earth’s equator measured through 90 degrees. See Longitude. This number will always be a negative number for Canadian data as Canada is in the west of the prime meridian.

Layers

A means of organizing and managing map data by type. Hydrological features (such as floodplains), parcel maps, railroads, and so on can be contained on separate layers for easy map creation and maintenance.

LDU

FSA LDU refers to the Canadian six digit postal code. FSA represents the first three digits of a postal code and LDU represents the last three digits of a postal code. LDU stands for Local Delivery Unit.

Linear Referencing

The linear referencing (LR) function for GeoPinpoint Suite allows the user to identify a single event at a geographic location between 2 intersections. Point event information includes the following:

The distance (m) to the address point from the end of the segment (FromDistance)
The distance (m) to the address point from the beginning of the segment (ToDistance)
The nearest street from the start of the segment (IntersectedStartStreet)
The nearest street from the end of the segment (IntersectedEndStreet)

Example Input address record - 2 intersection output

20 BAY ST, TORONTO, ON

fromDistance : 69.859808959243
toDistance : 48.364483125721
IntersectedStartStreet : QUEENS QUAY W
IntersectedEndStreet : HARBOUR ST

"35 ABBEYDALE VILLA NE","CALGARY","AB","T2A 7P6"

fromDistance : 66.834017036410
toDistance : 0.00000000000000
IntersectedStartStreet : ABBEYDALE DR NE
IntersectedEndStreet :
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For situations that occur where a street does not intersect any other streets for a few segments (>3) – the linear referencing function will only search 3 segments in each direction in an attempt to find an intersecting street. Therefore, it is possible that an intersection may not be returned.

Local Delivery Unit

FSA LDU refers to the Canadian six digit postal code. FSA represents the first three digits of a postal code and LDU represents the last three digits of a postal code.

Location Intelligence

Location Intelligence is the capacity to organize and understand complex phenomena through the use of geographic relationships inherent in all (business) information. One outcome of applying location intelligence in business processes is a measurable competitive advantage

Longitude

The second component of a spherical coordinate system used to record east-west positions on the earth’s surface, measured in degrees as the arc or position of the earth’s equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the prime meridian, which runs through Greenwich, England. See Latitude. This number will always be a positive number for Canadian data as Canada is in the north of the equator. See Latitude.

Note: The coordinates generated by GeoPinpoint Suite are in Latitude/Longitude decimal degrees. The number of decimal places in the output coordinate is determined by the field type specifications in the target database table.

Lot Number

These pieces of information are recognized and removed by GeoPinpoint Suite.