Geocoding Services

Overview

The Location Hub™ platform is comprised of multiple services. The Geocoding Service enables enterprise information to work within location-enabled technology and move through workflows to produce location intelligence. Specifically, Location Hub Geocoding Service can assign explicit geographic coordinates to objects that have civic addresses such as customers, residential premises, business structures or other types of facilities. This service is an enterprise scaled technology that accepts addresses in parsed, unparsed or free-form formats and returns a validated address and latitude (x) and longitude (y) coordinates.

Reverse geocoding functionality is also available through this Location Hub service using a  Geography Markup Language (GML)-compliant geometry type (i.e., point, line or polygon) and returns a user defined number of possible addresses found within or proximate to the target feature.

Usage

• Enable enterprise information to be mapped with exacting precision and visualized relative to other important topographic features
• Provide hyper-local services by enabling the geographic relations of proximity, density and connections among customers, company assets or other features of interest.
• Track mobile assets or objects with specific geographic coordinates to determine the closest civic address location (Reverse address look-ups)
• Sustain the currency and accuracy of mission critical enterprise information enabled against the gold standard of geographic information in Canada
  

Geocoding Features

The following functionality is provided by the Geocoding Service:

• Advanced street and municipality aliasing created from a long standing Canadian geospatial content provider
• Intelligent geocoding for rural address records within and between smaller communities
• Geocode to Rooftop / Municipal (parcel) allows for the placement of address information with extreme precision
• Geocode to Interpolated Address geocodes along street segments allowing for the placement of address information not yet at rooftop level
• Geocode to Point of Interest (POI) geocodes records which identify common places referred to usually by name and not address
• Geocode to Postal Code allows the user to match to the latest Canadian postal geography information with regards to six digit postal code boundaries and in some cases postal code points
• Geocode to FSA Centroid allows the user to geocode to the centroid of an FSA polygon (first three digits of the postal code) as a fallback item to ensure a coordinate is returned
• Geocode to Municipality Centroid allows user to geocode to the centroid of a municipality or city also as a fallback item to ensure a coordinate is returned
• Geocode to Populated Place Name (PPN) returns coordinates for the specific town, village or hamlet in the user’s records.
• Geocode to Street (* records without address numbers) allows users to geocode records that do not contain vital information such as the address number. 

The Geocoding service also supports an interactive geocoding mode that allows for the return of multiple results to be handled by the Location Hub mapping service or any other application. This helps to keep the user engaged and deal with those records where multiples still occurred even after pre-determined rules were set into place.

Reverse Geocoding Features

The reverse geocoding service uses point, line and polygon geometries to provide flexibility when calling reverse look up searches:

Type	Example
An input point surrounded by a pre-defined buffer allows for the identification of all address records within that area. A user on the street using a GPS enabled cellphone can identify all of the fast food restaurants in their proximity.
An input line surrounded by a pre-defined buffer allows for the identification of all address records within that area. Identifying all buildings associated with a selected street segment is now made easier.
An input polygon yields all of the address records within that area. Identifying all addresses within a defined boundary/footprint is now made easier.

Key Benefits

• Reduce staff handling time through fast single-pass processing that eliminates multiple lookups and redundant steps
• Achieve a higher operational success rate by using the superior address aliasing and resolving power unique to DMTI Spatial’s data libraries
• Leverage Location Hub services to build unique customer-facing services stylized to your company’s branding and overall look-and-feel elements
• Minimize start-up, support and overall information integration costs by allowing your developers to use Location Hub application programming interfaces (API) resources
• Enable enterprise data through geocoding service so they can contribute to more complex workflows generating meaningful location intelligence for your business challenges
• Recover and re-assign critical staffing resources by migrating the activities of ongoing information integration and data quality processes through a software as a service (SaaS) deployment model.

Security

• Services run through Location Hub are all exposed as WS-* compliant web services.  Communication with Location Hub services is based on the SOAP protocol running on top of either textual HTTP or binary TCP/IP protocols.
• Location Hub services are secured using a federated security based on WS-Federation standard and/or SSL certificates.
• Location Hub Resource STS service supports distributing security domains. In other words, companies can manage their own users in a secure environment and use their local credentials to gain access to Location Hub, via Location Hub Resource STS service.

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