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Address Autocomplete
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Address Autocomplete is a feature that suggests street addresses to users as they type an address into...
Address Cleansing
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Address cleansing is the collective process of standardizing, correcting and then validating a...
What is Address Correction
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Address Correction is the process of reviewing postal addresses for accuracy and completeness and...
What Are Address Data Intelligence Benefits for Government Services
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Government agencies benefit from address data intelligence through address verification...
What is Address Exception Handling
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Address Exception Handling is the proactive process of managing addresses not found in an...
What Are Address False Positives
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Address false positives are dangerous for businesses because it can lead to lost...
Address Line 1 Meaning, Uses, Placement, and Examples
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Address Line 1 should contain the building or house number, and...
Address line 2, Uses, Placement, and Examples
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An address field that allows users to add secondary address information such as...
What is Address Parsing
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Address parsing is the process of taking an address or a string of text and breaking that address into...
What is Latency
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Network Latency is simply referring to the delay in communication across different...
Address Standardization and Validation
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Address standardization and validation are two of the main services Smarty provides.
Address Verification Glossary
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The process of changing addresses to adhere to USPS standards. The USPS defines a standardized...
AVS vs. Address Validation: What's the Difference?
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It's easy to explain the difference between AVS and address validation.
Batch Geocode or Batch Geocoding
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To batch geocode, or perform batch geocoding, is the process of uploading a spreadsheet or list of...
Best Address Validation Services Software and Tools
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Address validation software can be offered in many forms depending on your needs and...
County FIPS Codes
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County FIPS Codes are 5-digit numbers used to designate each county across the United States. FIPS Codes...
Data Consolidation & Merging Datasets Using Addresses
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Data Consolidation is the process of combining an organization's data into a single...
Finding a Quality Address Validation API
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There are two main qualities that will help you determine if an address validation API is a good...
Free Knowledge
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Knowledge is important. In some mathematical representations, it's equal to power. It's the difference...
Geocoding
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Geocoding is the process of finding geographical coordinates for an address or place that is in...,
How to Find a County By Using a ZIP Code
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Every mailing address is located within a specific county AND a specific ZIP Code. Therefore...
How to use APIs for Address Validation, Standardization and more
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An address API is an application programmatic interface (API) that processes postal addresses.
Google Address Validation API
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How does Google's address validation API stacks up against Smarty's legendary and lightning-fast...
How to Validate an Address Using [Programming Language of Your Choice]
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A lot of programmers want to know how to validate an address using Regex, JavaScript, .Net, PHP...
How to Write a Mailing Address - Format + Examples
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Writing a mailing address is dictated by the mailing address format for your country and....
LACS
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LACS
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matches addresses against a list of rural route, highway route, and box number addresses...
What is Personally Identifiable Information
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PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is any information that permits the identification...
What are PO Box–Only ZIP Codes
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Is there a list of ZIP Codes where the USPS doesn't deliver to physical addresses? Yes.
Rejected address? What does that mean?
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I just ran some rejected addresses. What does that mean?
What are Unique ZIP Codes
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Some organizations (such as large businesses, universities, or government agencies) receive...
Whas it USPS CASS Cycle O
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USPS CASS Cycle O is the USPS's foundational system for ensuring the accuracy and precision of...
Validation / Verification
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Address validation is the process of checking a mailing address against an authoritative database...
What are Geocodes & what is Geocoding?
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A geocode is the GPS coordinates (or the latitude and longitude) of a physical address. Geocoding is the...
What Are Postal Codes?
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Postal codes are strings of numbers (and sometimes letters) that help postal services determine where...
What are Service Level Agreements?
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An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is a part of a standardized service contract in which specific...
What are URLs?
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URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, and is a way to reference a resource like a web page on...
What are ZIP+4 Codes?
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ZIP+4 Codes are the last 4 digits of a nine-digit ZIP Code. A nine-digit ZIP Code is made of two parts.
What is Address Standardization?
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Address standardization is the process of formatting an address so that it matches the approved format...
What is a National Address Database
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A National Address Database is a database that contains a list of addresses for delivery points within...
What is an "Address Lookup"?
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An Address Lookup is the process of checking an address against an authoritative database to verify if...
What is an API?
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API is short for "Application Program Interface". An API is a set of programmatic instructions that...
What is an "Inactive" Address?
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The US Postal Service labels some addresses "no-stat." At Smarty, we call them "inactive."
What is Data Governance?
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Data Governance is a set of principles and standards that dictate the organization and unification of...
What are Decimal Degrees
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Decimal Degrees are a way to express latitude and longitude coordinates...
What is Canada Post?
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Canada Post is the Canadian equivalent of the USPS in the United States. They serve as the postal...
What is CASS Certification?
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The CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) certification process was designed by the USPS in...
What is CASS Processing?
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What is CASS? Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) is a certification system from the...
What is CASS?
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CASS stands for The Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS). It's a tool created and used by the...
What is County Data?
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A county is the largest geographic division of local government. According to the National association...
What is Delivery Point Validation (DPV)?
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Delivery Point Validation™ (DPV®) is the process of verifying that an address is actually deliverable...
What is Deutsche Post?
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Deutsche Post AG, also known as Deutsche Post DHL, is Germany's primary postal delivery service.
What is HTTP?
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HTTP stands for "HyperText Transfer Protocol," and it's the computer communication protocol used...
What is International Address Validation?
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International address validation is the process of comparing a non-US address against an...
What is La Poste and the French Postal System?
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Postal codes in France are similar to ZIP Codes in the United States. For example, the postal code/ZIP...
What is NCOA (National Change of Address) Certification?
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NCOALink or NCOA (National Change of Address) is a data set containing approximately 160 million...
What is RDI, and Where Can I Find It?
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RDI stands for "Residential Delivery Indicator". It tells you if a mailing address is a residential or business...
What is Royal Mail?
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Royal Mail plc is the primary postal service in the United Kingdom. It provides postal delivery...
What is Reverse Geocoding?
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Reverse geocoding starts with a latitude and longitude point, and gives you back the corresponding street address...
Where Is Your Error?
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Despite best efforts, errors happen. It can be helpful to know where those errors are happening.
Why Address Standardization during Data Entry is Essential to Quality Data
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Many problems with the quality of address data can be eliminated by simply validating and...
Why Is Address Verification Important?
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Before you can understand why address verification is important to you and your company, you must...
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