GRC Database Intelligence

GRC Data Intelligence - newsletter, March/April 2011

26 Apr 2011 10:36:02 GMT

GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, March/April 2011

Product updates

We have released new versions of almost all out products. The Global Sourcebook for Name and Address Data Management has a new layout and lots of new content, and many of our reference tables have been released, with upgraded content.

New white paper

Download my new white paper, produced in association with Capscan, entitled The Hidden Returns on your Data Quality Investment, here.

Links pages updated 26th April 2011

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- Denmark - detailed postal codes map.
- United States of America - (in English - qpzm) - Zip code finder and listings by state and county. Shows map of found ZIP code area.

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Greek postal codes - (in Greek and English) - search engine. Find postal codes by street, city/village, area/prefecture. The full Greek postal files can also be purchased from this page.

Links broken
- Germany - (in English) - convert pre-1994 postal codes to post-1994 postal codes.
- Germany - (in German) - convert pre-1994 postal codes to post-1994 postal codes.
- Latvia (in English) - Postal code search engine. Search via a map, by region or city, by postal code or street.
- Latvia (in English) - Special large user postal codes list.
- Latvia (in Latvian) - Special large user postal codes list.
- Latvia (in Russian) - Postal code search engine. Search via a map, by region or city, by postal code or street.
- Latvia (in Russian) - Special large user postal codes list.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Turkey (in English)

Links to telephone number pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotht.htm

Links added
- Australia (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.
- Belgium (in Dutch & French) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.
- France (in French) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.
- Germany (in German) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.
- United Kingdom (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.
- United States (in English & Spanish) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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GRC Data Intelligence - newsletter, July and August 2011

29 Aug 2011 11:56:58 GMT

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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, July/August 2011

In case you missed it you can still listen to Graham Rhind being interviewed by Jim Harris of OCDQBlog Radio on the topic of International Data Quality here.

Also new is that the free data quality glossary at http://www.dqglossary.com/ now also includes data security words and phrases.

Links pages updated 29th August 2011

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered
- The Netherlands - (in Dutch) - get information about a place by postal code search

Links broken
-United States Postal codes - Search Engine - (in English) from the Semaphore Corporation. Also standardizes address output in USPS preferred format (i.e. Street becomes ST and so on), and can list addresses within the neighbourhood of another address.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links broken
-Egypt (in English)

Links to company pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksoth.htm

Links added
- Loqate (in English, based in Redwood City, CA, USA) - Address identification, verification and geocoding.

Links to language pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksothl.htm

Links added
- Eesti Keele Instituut(in English) - Data on languages - scripts, character set repertoires, codepages, Unicode
- Michael Everson(in English) - The Languages of Europe

Links to telephone number pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotht.htm

Links added
- Netherlands (in Dutch) - Dutch white and yellow pages.

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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GRC Data Intelligence - newsletter, June 2011

27 Jun 2011 12:10:06 GMT

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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, June 2011

Product updates

We have released new versions of almost all our products. GRCTools address parsing, formatting and standardisation software has had an overhaul. and many of our reference tables have been released, with upgraded content.

Links pages updated 27th June 2011

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- Colombia (in Spanish) - Explanation of Colombian postal code system.

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Bermudan Postal Codes - in English - an overview of Bermudan postal codes

Links broken
- Germany - (in German) - List of all postal codes by place name.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links added
- Colombia (in Spanish) - 4-72

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Bermuda (in English)
- British Virgin Islands (in English)
- Egypt (in Arabic)
- Guernsey (Channel Islands) (in English) - mainly philately
- The Netherlands - PostNL (in Dutch).
- The Netherlands - PostNL (in English).

Links to company pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksoth.htm

Links added
- Ixsight (in English, based in Mumbai/Pune, India) - Master Data Management/matching solutions.

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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GRC Data Intelligence - final newsletter

31 Oct 2011 10:55:27 GMT

GRC Data Intelligence - Final Newsletter

We are sending this newsletter just to let you know that this will be our final newsletter. We are also closing our RSS feed and the GRCDI Yahoo discussion group.

We are doing this because we found that we were unable to provide the quality of communication we are aiming for whilst spreading our message thinly through many different media to many small groups. We will therefore be concentrating on a smaller number of platforms where we can reach the most people with the best message. If you want to keep updated on our website, blogs and products, please follow us on Twitter: @grahamrhind

With all best wishes,

Graham Rhind

GRC Data Intelligence - newsletter, May 2011

30 May 2011 09:43:40 GMT

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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, May 2011

Links pages updated 30th May 2011

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to postal code pages athttp://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered

- Swiss Postal codes - (in English) - download postal code files.

- Swiss Postal codes - (in French) - download postal code files.

- Swiss Postal codes - (in German) - download postal code files.

- Swiss Postal codes - (in Italian) - download postal code files.

- Turkey - (in Turkish & English) - Postal code search engine.

Links broken

- Romania (in Romanian) - Euroticket.ro - Postal code listings per county (under the title Coduri postale)

- Turkey - (in Turkish) - Download the Turkish postal codes file.

Links to telephone number pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotht.htm

Links added

- Austria (in German) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- Canada (in English/French) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- India (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- Ireland (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- Japan (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- Luxembourg (in French) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- New Zealand (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- South Africa (in English) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- Spain (in Spanish) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

- Switzerland (in German/French) - Yalwa - business search engine/listings.

Links updated or descriptions altered

- Links to telephone directories on the web (in English/German/Spanish/French/Italian) - teldir.com.

Links to data quality pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksdq.htm

Links broken

- Right First Time: A Film Concerning Quality Management - This classic British film looks at key quality issues such as using control charts, determining customer standards, training inspectors, and determining machine capability. The film follows a company as it begins to understand its own quality costs in response to a customer's new demands. 1'24"

Visitor numbers and advertising information athttp://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm

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GRC Data Intelligence - newsletter, February 2011

28 Jan 2011 12:59:33 GMT

GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, February 2011

Free stuff

We have added a number of Venn diagrams to our free downloads page showing the relationship between parts of political entities, such as the UK.

Blog posts

You may be interested in one or more of our blog posts this month. They include: "Data quality and information perception"; "I see bubbles", about poor targetting in Internet advertising; and "Localization is evil!"

Links pages updated 28th Febuary 2011

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to other links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm

Links added
- Postal-codes.net - some pages list postal codes for certain countries.

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- Afghanistan (in English).
- Czech Republic Search Engine (in English, from Czech Post). Search engine.

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Austria - (in English) - map of postal code regions.
- Czech Republic Search Engine (in Czech, from Czech Post). Search engine.
- New Zealand (in English, from New Zealand Post) - Postal code directories (pdf format).
- Slovenia (in Slovenian) - Postal code search engine. Choose Iskalnik Poslovalnic.
- Spanish Postal codes - (in English) - from the Spanish Post Office - Search engine.

Links broken
- Denmark - detailed postal codes map.
- Latvia (in English) - Postal code search engine. Search via a map, by region or city, by postal code or street.
- Latvia (in English) - Special large user postal codes list.
- Latvia (in Russian) - Postal code search engine. Search via a map, by region or city, by postal code or street.
- Latvia (in Russian) - Special large user postal codes list.
- Latvia (in Latvian) - Special large user postal codes list.
- Sri Lanka - (in English) - postal code list.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links added
- Czech Republic (in English).

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Czech Republic (in Czech).
- Faeroe Islands (in Faeroese) - Postverk Føroya
- Jordan (in Arabic) - Jordan Post
- Slovakia (in Slovakian)
- Vietnam (in English) - Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation.

Links to company pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksoth.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered
- DataMentors (in English, based in Wesley Chapel, FL, USA) - International data cleansing.
- Experian (in English) - bureau service for international address validation.
- Volume Group - (in English, based in Wokingham, UK) - International Data specialists. Name & Address processing, de-duplication etc.
- Maptitude - (in English) - GIS mapping software. Pages also in Spanish and Chinese.

Links to telephone number pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotht.htm

Links added
- International telephone dialling codes - (in English) - Reverselookupguru.com

Links updated or descriptions altered
- International dialling codes - (in English) - list of country telephone dialling codes, the number to dial international from a country, and selected area codes for each country.
- International dialling codes and area codes - (in English) - locate area codes, city name or country telephone codes.
- International telephone dialling codes - (in English)
- North America - area codes database (in English, based in Altoona, FL, USA - commercial site) - Quentin Sager Consulting. Includes all countries in the North American Numbering Plan Administration area, and Mexico.
- Europe - Europages - European business directory.
- Hungary (in English or Hungarian) - Hungarian telephone number search engine.
- Iceland (in Icelandic) - Iceland Telecom telephone number search engine.
- Macedonia (in English and Macedonian) - search engine for telephone numbers (white pages)

Links to other addressing issues at http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotho.htm

Links added
- AS 4590 - (in English) - Australia: interchange of client information
- AS/NZS 4819 - (in English) - Australia/New Zealand standards for rural and urban addressing
- BS 7666-0 - (in English) -United Kindom: spatial datasets for geographical referencing. General model for gazetteers and spatial referencing.
- AFNOR XP Z10-011 - (in French) - France: specifications for postal addressing.
- ISO/TS 15000-5 - (in English) - Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML).
- ISO 19112 - (in English) - Geographic information - spatial referencing by geographic identifiers.
- SANS 1883-1 - (in English) - South African Address Standard - data format
- SANS 1883-3 - (in English) - South African Address Standard - guidelines for address allocation and updates.
- UPU S42 & S53 (in English) - Universal Postal Union International postal address components and templates.

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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GRC Data Intelligence - newsletter January 2011

31 Jan 2011 11:38:56 GMT

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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, January 2011

Links pages updated 31st January 2011

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to other links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm

Links added
- Postal-codes.net - some pages list postal codes for certain countries.

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- Afghanistan (in English).
- Czech Republic Search Engine (in English, from Czech Post). Search engine.

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Austria - (in English) - map of postal code regions.
- Czech Republic Search Engine (in Czech, from Czech Post). Search engine.

Links broken
- Denmark - detailed postal codes map.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links added
- Czech Republic (in English).

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Czech Republic (in Czech).
- Faeroe Islands (in Faeroese) - Postverk Føroya
- Jordan (in Arabic) - Jordan Post
- Slovakia (in Slovakian)
- Vietnam (in English) - Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation.

Links to company pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksoth.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered
- DataMentors (in English, based in Wesley Chapel, FL, USA) - International data cleansing.
- Experian (in English) - bureau service for international address validation.
- Volume Group - (in English, based in Wokingham, UK) - International Data specialists. Name & Address processing, de-duplication etc.
- Maptitude - (in English) - GIS mapping software. Pages also in Spanish and Chinese.

Links to telephone number pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotht.htm

Links added
- International telephone dialling codes - (in English) - Reverselookupguru.com

Links updated or descriptions altered
- International dialling codes - (in English) - list of country telephone dialling codes, the number to dial international from a country, and selected area codes for each country.
- International dialling codes and area codes - (in English) - locate area codes, city name or country telephone codes.
- International telephone dialling codes - (in English)
- North America - area codes database (in English, based in Altoona, FL, USA - commercial site) - Quentin Sager Consulting. Includes all countries in the North American Numbering Plan Administration area, and Mexico.
- Europe - Europages - European business directory.
- Hungary (in English or Hungarian) - Hungarian telephone number search engine.
- Iceland (in Icelandic) - Iceland Telecom telephone number search engine.
- Macedonia (in English and Macedonian) - search engine for telephone numbers (white pages)

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter December 2010

27 Dec 2010 13:38:31 GMT

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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, December 2010

Product releases

We have released new versions of many of our products, including:

Surnames/family names data table, with >450000 names, at http://www.grcdi.nl/surnames.htm
Given names data table, with > 204000 names, at http://www.grcdi.nl/givennames.htm
Place names/postal codes data table, with almost 31 million combinations - http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm
Job titles data table, with over 96600 job titles. Details at http://www.grcdi.nl/jobtitles.htm
Address element synonyms data table, with over 454000 records - http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm
GRCTools address formatting and manipulation software updated: http://www.grcdi.nl/dmtools.htm

New article

Graham Rhind's newest article, entitled "Need Better Data? Pay More Attention to yout Web Forms" has been published online by UX Matters here

Links pages updated 27th December 2010

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to language pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksothl.htm

Links added
- Wingeo (in English) - Turkish, Georgian, English, Russian online dictionaries.

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- Sri Lanka - (in English) - postal codes by province.

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Indian PIN codes (postal codes) - Search Engine (in English) - search by area or PIN code.
- Indian PIN codes (postal codes) - Search Engine (in English) - from India Post - search by post office name or PIN code.
- Israel - Search Engine (in Hebrew) - search for postal codes. From the Israeli Post Office.
- Israel - Search Engine (in Hebrew) - search for addresses by typing in postal codes. From the Israeli Post Office.
- Italy - (in English) - map of postal code regions.
- Luxembourg - (in English) - Search engine. Choose Post, then Sending Mail. Choose Letter boxes finder to search for a postbox. Choose Post offices finder to find a post office address. Choose Postcodes finder to locate a postal code.
- New Zealand Postal Codes - Search Engine (in English, from New Zealand Post) - search by suburb or street name, or box/bag number.
- New Zealand (in English, from New Zealand Post) - download postal code maps (pdf format).
- Portuguese Postal codes - Search Engine (in Portuguese) - from CTT Correios. Choose "Pesquisa de Código Postal" in the "Ferramentas" menu. Search on area, village, street etc. Also, download the postal codes file from this page.
- Slovakian Postcodes (in Slovakian) - search engine and download. Choose Sluzby pre obcanov, and to download Poštové smerovacie císla. To search, type in municipality (Obec) and street (Ulica), or postal code (PSC). Press Hl'adaj to search.
- Slovenia (in Slovenian) - Postal code search engine. Choose Iskalnik Poslovalnic.
- Slovenia - (in English - Posta Slovenije) - postal code search engine. Choose postal outlet search.
- Switzerland - (in English) - map of Swiss postal code regions.
- United Kingdom (in English) - AFD Software - postal code lookup page. Requires registration.
- United Kingdom (in English) - (BT directory enquiries) - if you know the name of the company or individual you are looking for, you can get a full postal address as well as a telephone number from this site.
- United Kingdom - (in English) (Cabinet office) - information about the UK postal code system.
- United Kingdom - (in English) (CheckMyFile) - provides a socio-economic profile by postal code.
- United States Postal codes - (in English) - postal search and address correction software.
- United States - (in English) Zip code / address verification / telephone number searching. US users only allowed.
- United States Postal codes - Search Engine - (in English) - (from 555-1212.com) - enter an address to return a full zip+4 and formatted address - PAY SITE.
- United States Postal codes - online validation - (in English) - (from UPS) - download their online validation tools for validating US addresses.
- United States of America - (in English) - Cheap United States' ZIP code file
- United States of America - Zipdecode - a java map of Zip codes. Enter postal code to zoom in to the code's position.
- Venezuela - (in Spanish) - (from IPostel) - search engine, search by postal code, locality or area - choose "En Linea" then "Códigos Postales".

Links broken
- Japan - (in Japanese) - lists of Japanese postal codes.
- Jordan (in English) - (probably not definitive) list of Jordanian postal codes - only Amman.
- Luxembourg - (in French) - search engine from P&T Luxembourg. Search by locality and street or postbox number, or by large user, or by postal code. Also, download complete street and postbox postal code files.
- New Zealand (in English, from New Zealand Post) - Full information about the New Zealand postal code system.
- Slovakian Postcodes (in Slovakian) - search engine for large users. Choose Sluzby pre firmy
- Spain - (in Spanish, micodigopostal.com) - Drill down through through administrative areas to find, and map, a municipal postal code.
- Thailand - (in English) - choose "Download Postcode" for an Excel spreadsheet of Thai postal codes.
- Thailand - (in Thai) - choose "Download ????????????" for an Excel spreadsheet or text file of Thai postal codes.
- United Kingdom (in English) - AFD Software - postal code lookup page searching on the basis of address fragments.

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, November 2010

29 Nov 2010 11:06:52 GMT

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GRC Data Intelligence - Newsletter, November 2010

Links pages updated 29th November 2010

Our links pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/links.htm have been updated today. Details are listed below.

Web page changes

Links to postal code pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm

Links added
- Gocode (in English) - a digital location code for Ireland

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Austrian Postcodes (in English) (from Post.at) - search engine. Choose Postcode Finder.
- Austrian Postcodes (in German) (from Post.at) - Download the file of Austrian postal codes.
- Belgian postal codes - Search Engine - (in French, from the bpost) - search on postal code or municipality and download lists
- Belgian postal codes - Search Engine - (in Dutch, from the bpost) - search on postal code or municipality and download lists.
- Belgium (in English, Belgium Roots project) - list of places and postal codes
- Faeroe Islands - (in Faeroese, from Postverk Føroya) - search engine on postal code and place name, or post office box number.
- Germany - (in English) - map of postal code regions.
- Germany - (in English) (Exeter University) - some basic postal code and addressing information (aimed at language learners)
- Germany - (in English) - a scribble map showing postal codes linked in ascending order, and also a "travelling salesman problem" map showing the shortest route through all codes.

Links broken
- DHP - List of postal code formats
- Knol - Overview of global postal code formats
- Belgian postal codes - (in French, from the De Poste/La Poste) - download postal code files and information.
- Belgian postal codes - (in Dutch, from the De Poste/La Poste) - download postal code files and information.
- Belgian postal codes - (in English, from the De Poste/La Poste) - download postal code files and information.
- France (in French) - (Médiapost) - information about available French postal code and Cédex files.
- Germany - (in German) - map of postal code regions.

Links to post office pages at http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm

Links updated or descriptions altered
- Belgium (in Flemish, French, German and English).
- Isle of Man (in English) - the official site, mainly philately.
- Thailand (in English). Thailand Post

Links broken
- Austria (in English) - Post.at.
- Moldova - (in Moldovan) - Ministry of Transport and Communication
- Nicaragua (in Spanish).
- Thailand (in Thai) - Post and Telegraph Department.
- Thailand (in English) - Post and Telegraph Department.
- Trinidad & Tobago (in English) - a list of post offices in Trinidad & Tobago.
- Venezuela (in Spanish) - IPostel

Links to company pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksoth.htm

Links broken
- Retail Locations (in English, based in Woodford Green, Essex, UK) - hold a database of the location of retail outlets in the U.K.

Links to telephone number pages http://www.grcdi.nl/linksotht.htm

Links added
- Canada - (in English), Allpages.com - business listings
- United States - (in English), Allpages.com - business listings

Visitor numbers and advertising information at http://www.grcdi.nl/advert.htm
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