[Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Mark Newnham <mark at newnhams.com> wrote:

> I work in the Uitilities/Billing industry and do a reasonable amount of
> work in addressing quality (in order to get lower USPS rates with things
> like the Intelligent Mail Barcoder and suchlike). I'd just like to throw a
> couple of things in to enhance the discussion....There are plenty of tools
> that the USPS supplies to enhance address quality.
> https://www.usps.com/business/manage-address-quality.htm
> Hope this helps the discussion
>

To be clear: the USPS tools are geared to taking an existing list of
addresses, and correcting them.  The USPS works very hard
to not be a source of previously unknown addresses (for whatever reason:
they could do far better than most private mailing list
vendors).

Licence restrictions abound.
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