Reference & metadata tables
Together with a variety of consultancy and training services, which you can read
about here, GRC Database
Information offers a number of reference data and metadata products to help you to manage your
international data. These products are summarized below.
Click on the hyperlink to get more information about, or to order, the
product
Country codes
FREE to download and use!
First release: 25th October 2010
Our own country codes file especially created for international name and address data management. Information here.
Place name/postal code combinations file
Newest release: 8th December 2011
This data
table contains over 31.2 million place name/postal code combination records. This data has been collected by analysing
over 92.9 million
real world data records for place name/postal code combinations. This
table is an ideal resource for standardising and processing your address
data. Read the full information here.
Postal code/latitude/longitude files
GRC Database Information resells GIS files for over 40 countries made available by GfK-Geomarketing. These files contain postal codes, place names and latitude/longitude information. Read the full information here.
Full postal files in Arabic and Roman script for seven countries
These data tables, built by GeoTiba,
contain full postal files, uniquely with data both in Roman and in Arabic script, for seven countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara. Read the full information here.
Region names/postal code combinations
Newest release: 29th September 2009
This data
table contains postal codes and region names for 48 countries and
territories. It can be used to assign regional names when a country and
postal code are known. Read more information here.
Address
elements data
Newest release: 10th December 2011
GRC
Database Information has built an exclusive table which contains over 472000
address element strings for world addresses. These include strings in many
languages indicating post office boxes, thoroughfare types, building types, sub-building
indicators, prepositions, adjectives, forms of address and many more. This
table is an ideal resource for standardising and processing your address
data. Read the full information here.
Postal code formatting rules
GRC
Database Information has built these tables which contain postal code formatting rules for every country with a postal code system. It is an ideal resource for parsing postal codes or for ensuring correct data entry. Read the full information
here.
Job titles
Newest release: 6th August 2011
GRC
Database Information has built a table which contains 106669 common job titles. This
table is an ideal resource for standardising and processing your data. Read the full information
here.
Telephone number information/formats
Newest release: 27th July 2010
These data tables contain information about world telephone number systems, designed to allow you to burst telephone numbers into their component parts (country code, international trunk code, national destination code (area code), national significant number (subscriber number)); check the validity of the numbers, in terms of their basic structure and length; and to identify which numbers belong to mobile (GSM) numbers, allowing, for example, SMS actions to be prepared and executed. Read the full information here.
Given names
Newest release: 9th September 2011
GRC
Database Information has built a table which contains 225588 given names. Read the full information here.
Surnames/Family names
Newest release: 7th June 2011
GRC
Database Information has built a table which contains 482739 surnames/family names. Read the full information here.
Family name prepositions
First release: 10th January 2006
This data table contains 620 records
containing family name preposition strings. These strings (van de, von, de, de la, al, el and so on) often need to be identified within data to allow correct alphabetic sorting and casing of the names. Read the full information
here.
Forms of address
(honorifics/salutations)
First release: 15th January 2006
This data table contains 5985 records
containing forms of address (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Dr, Professor etc.). Read the full information
here.
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