Global Geocoding

Capturing and Managing Global Insurance Exposure Data

Capturing and managing global insurance exposure data is a key challenge facing insurance companies writing business internationally. The RMS® Global Geocoding Platform provides comprehensive geocoding, worldwide multi-line data capture, and accumulation management capabilities to create the most sophisticated solution available for underwriting and managing multi-national insurance risks.

Model Highlights

	Single, comprehensive platform for implementing global geocoding capabilities
	Global exposure data capture, address validation, and aggregate reporting
	Component delivery for custom integration with in-house systems
	High-resolution geocoding capabilities in key insurance markets
	Sophisticated accumulation management and analysis of location-sensitive risks
	Up-to-date geocoding data to support changing address designations
	Resolution of multiple geographic spellings, misspellings, and common address abbreviations
	1-byte character sets that are UTF-8 compliant
	Coordinate reverse geocoding for RMS modeled countries

Geographic Scope and Exposure Data Resolution

The RMS® Global Geocoding platform supports geocoding for 15 modeled countries, and over 140 non-modeled countries and territories worldwide. High-resolution modeling is also available for the United States, Japan, and 17 Western European countries.

Sanborn CitySets^® Building Level Data

Sanborn CitySets data is available for major urban centers across the United States. The integration of Sanborn CitySets into RiskLink® and RiskBrowser® software applications provides clients with improved loss results through enhanced geocoding at the building level, the highest level of resolution available, providing higher quality exposure data and modeled loss results for improved risk analysis and management.

RMS Modeled Countries (* indicates high-resolution geocoding)

	Australia		Italy*
	Belgium*		Luxembourg*
	Denmark		Mexico
	France*		Netherlands*
	Germany*		Portugal*
	Greece		Sweden*
	Ireland*		United Kingdom*
	Israel

Non-modeled Countries (* indicates high-resolution geocoding)

	Andorra*		Madagascar
	Austria*		Malawi
	Liechtenstein*		Malaysia
	Norway*		Maldives
	Spain*		Mali
	Switzerland*		Malta
	Afghanistan		Mauritania
	Albania		Mauritius
	Angola		Mayotte
	Azerbaijan		Moldova
	Bahrain		Mongolia
	Bangladesh		Namibia
	Belarus		Nauru
	Belize		Nepal
	Benin		New Caledonia
	Bhutan		Nicaragua
	Bolivia		Niger
	Bosnia Herzegovina		Nigeria
	Botswana		Niue
	Brunei, Sultanate Of		Norfolk Island
	Burkina Faso		North Korea
	Burma / Myanmar		Oman
	Burundi		Pakistan
	Cambodia		Palau Islands
	Cameroon		Panama
	Cape Verde		Papua New Guinea
	Central African Republic		Peru
	Chad		Pitcairn Islands
	Christmas Island		Poland
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands		Qatar
	Comoros		Romania
	Congo		Rwanda
	Cook Islands		San Marino
	Costa Rica		Sao Tome & Principe
	Czech Republic		Saudi Arabia
	Djibouti		Senegal
	East Timor		Seychelles
	Ecuador		Sierra Leone
	Egypt		Singapore
	El Salvador		Slovakia
	Equatorial Guinea		Solomon Islands
	Eritrea		Somalia
	Estonia		South Georgia & Sandwich Islands
	Ethiopia		South Korea
	Faroe Islands		St. Helena & Dependencies
	Fiji		St. Pierre & Miquelon
	Finland		Sudan
	French Guiana		Suriname
	French Polynesia		Svalbard
	Gabon		Swaziland
	Gambia		Syria
	Ghana		Tajikistan
	Gibraltar		Tanzania, United Rep Of
	Greenland		Togo
	Guatemala		Tokelau
	Guinea		Tonga
	Guyana		Turkmenistan
	Honduras		Tuvalu
	Hungary		Uganda
	Iran		Ukraine
	Iraq		United Arab Emirates
	Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)		Uzbekistan
	Jordan		Vanuatu
	Kazakhstan		Vietnam
	Kiribati		Wallis & Futuna
	Kuwait		Western Sahara
	Laos		Western Samoa
	Lebanon		Yemen
	Lesotho		Yugoslavia
	Liberia		Zaire
	Libya		Zimbabwe