Digital Mapping for
Business & Government

MapMarker^® Plus Features:

GeoEnglsCandidateMultiUnit - The API has been extended to include this feature which detects if a candidate address represents a location that has multiple units, such as apartments.

Street-Level Matching - Match address records containing street-style addresses against a search table of addresses and geographic (longitude and latitude) coordinates.

Single Address or Batch Geocoding - Choose to geocode one address at a time or batch geocoding for processing one or more tables without constant user interaction.

Address Dictionary - Data based on three sources of address and geographic information, all of which are updated quarterly:

• Address data from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
• ZIP + 4 Address data from the U.S. Postal Service
• Street Geometry and related information from GDT's Dynamap/2000^® file
• ZIP + 4 centroids from GDT

Custom Address Dictionary - Associate multiple cities to a single ZIP Code. Override or extend the address information provided in the Address Matching Dictionary with a MapInfo table containing your own spatial information.

Display Streets - Ships with a street display layer for use with the geography you purchase. Customers requiring quality presentation street display are encouraged to purchase MapInfo StreetPro^®.

Candidate Visualization - See where potential matches fall on a map before selecting a candidate.

Automatic and Interactive Geocoding - Runs in both automatic and interactive mode. Automatic mode may be used on the first pass to geocode most of the table. For unmatched records, interactive mode may be used to individually choose the best match from a list of suggestions.

Write Georesults to Another Table Geocode a remote database table and write the results to a related remote table.

CASS Certification - Meets the U.S. Postal Service Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) 2001/2002 requirements for address standardization.

Airport Geocoding - Geocode airports using the abbreviated airport code (for example LAX for Los Angeles).

City Index - If a city name is spelled correctly, this index allows the MapMarker^® engine to bypass the phonetic algorithm while address matching, thereby increasing speed and performance.

Georesult Table Summary - This feature will create a summary of the geocode results for an entire table. The summary is updated each time the table is geocoded. Only available for desktop user interface.

ZIPMOVE Support - MapMarker^® Plus utilizes the ZIPMOVE file, provided by USPS, which allows the software to match to addresses that have changed ZIP Code.

Quick Geocode - For geocodng without all the setup, the Quick geocode button allows you to click and go.  The table will be geocoded with the current preferences without displaying the Geocode dialog.

The premier geocoding product for mapping & analyzing business data.

MapMarker^®, MapInfo's geocoding engine, turns ordinary data records containing address information into geographic objects that can be displayed on a map quickly and accurately. MapInfo markets versions of MapMarker^® in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. With MapMarker^®, users can geocode and clean entire databases of address information.

MapMarker^® Plus expands the regular features of MapMarker^® by matching records against its comprehensive Address Dictionary, a database of USPS street addresses, street geometry and the latest ZIP + 4 centroids.

Enhanced by GDT data, MapMarker^® Plus can locate millions of addresses with street level precision. Combining an increased number of streets, with a greater number of addresses, MapMarker^® Plus delivers up to a 30% increase in hit rate at the street level compared to the standard MapMarker^®. MapMarker^® Plus gives you greater control, while spatially enabling your data.

MapMarker^® Plus ensures accuracy when visualizing business location information, such as stores, customers and your competition as well as:

• Geocoding large tables in batch mode for fast results (geocode up to 600,000 records per hour)
• Geocoding interactively through friendly user interface (you make the final decision if there is a match) to maximize the number of matches and to control error rate
• Geocoding to street addresses or ZIP Code Centroids
• Identifying result codes by the type of match to tell at a glance the street address matches from the ZIP Code Centroid matches
• Standardizing addresses to meet USPS CASS requirements (CASS certification received for 2002/2003)
• Geocoding remote tables via ODBC

Configuration:

Desktop - Purchase for use on a single computer for geocoding nationwide, within a 6-state region, or for an individual state. Multi-user pricing is available for deployment to multiple named users within a single organization. 

Server - Using industry standard RPC, MapMarker^® and MapMarker^® Plus can be deployed more efficiently as a Windows NT service or Windows 95/98 console application - handling multiple requests from multiple clients for real time geocoding. 

OCX/Active X - Use object oriented languages to embed geocoding in mapping applications. The OCX/Active X is included in MapMarker^® Plus as well as the standard MapMarker^® product. 

MapMarker^® Plus for UNIX - Server based solution for customers implementing MapMarker Plus on a Sun Solaris or HP/UX operating system (version 11). Customers create their own client user interface to provide geocoding via the APIs provided. 

MapMarker^® J Server - A Java-based development tool for creating applications that send geocoding requests to the MapMarker engine. It accesses MapMarker^® or MapMarker^® Plus across the Internet via HTTP. MapMarker^® J Server enables geocoding from within the MapInfo Geocoding Cartridge, MapXtreme^® Java solutions, and custom developed applications where access to the geocoding engine is via the Java API. Version 3.x should be used with any release of MapMarker^® Java or the 'C-based' MapMarker^® for US version in the 8.x or higher series. Version 2.1.1 should be used with earlier version of the MapMarker^® US engine. The product includes the Java API for building a geocoding client and a sample client application.

MapInfo Geocoding DataBlade Module - Match addresses and store latitude and longitude coordinates with the addresses in your database. It extends the capabilities of the Informix Universal Server database management system by adding a new geographical location data type and three routines that provide the geocoding functionality. 

MapInfo Geocoding Cartridge for Oracle8i - A Java-based tool enabling interaction with MapMarker's^® powerful geocoding engine from within an Oracle8i database. The cartridge adds geographic coordinates to address records in a customer's database by matching them against the MapMarker^® Plus address dictionary. The MapInfo Geocoding Cartridge uses the MapMarker^® J Server to communicate with the MapMarker^® geocoding engine. Address records may be geocoded individually or an entire table may be geocoded using functions and procedures provided with the MapInfo Geocoding Cartridge. This product is certified to work with Oracle versions 8.1.5, 8.1.6, and 8.1.7. 

MapMarker^® ESP for Microsoft^® SQL Server - Take advantage of MapMarker's^® geocoding function in your SQL Server databases. MapMarker^® ESP (Extended Stored Procedures) enables geocoding calls to be implemented on a 'trigger' action, allowing automatic location updating of database address information. Geocoding can be done directly in the database instead of excerpting tables from database, geocoding them and inserting the tables back into the database.