Placekey

About Placekey
Solve tough problems related to address matching, POI matching, address normalization, validation, deduplication, and entity resolution with Placekey — a free, universal identifier for physical places.
ADDRESS AND POI MATCHING
If you are drawing address and/or POI-oriented data from multiple different places, Placekey allows you to match them together easily. Placekey can act as an alternative to a spatial join, letting you join on the Placekey attribute. This significantly reduces the downsides of spatial joins - these include geocodes on top of each other in apartment buildings or offices, densely-placed geocodes in urban areas and street-level versus rooftop-level geocoding.
ADDRESS NORMALIZATION
By resolving messy input address formats, Placekey removes the need to first normalize your addresses and POIs when joining them with other data. The Placekey API ensures that the same place will receive the same Placekey, even if it is referenced using multiple names and/or address conventions.
ADDRESS AND POI DEDUPLICATION
Placekey can help you remove duplicate rows in your dataset, even if their address and POI formats differ. Just Placekey all of your rows and drop duplicates of the Placekey attribute.
EVALUATE ADDRESS DATA QUALITY
The Placekey API compares your address and POI data against multiple authoritative sources of truth in order to generate a unique Placekey for each place in your dataset. Overall data quality can be ascertained by appending Placekeys and looking at the match rate.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Currently only fully supported for US, Canada, and the Netherlands-based Addresses and POIs.
Key benefits of Placekey
- Generate unique, universal identifiers for any location with the Placekey API
- Placekeys allows you to easily match disparate address and/or POI-orientated datasets
- Placekey helps you normalize addresses by resolving messy input formats
- Placekey can help identify redundant addresses in datasets, even if their address and POI formats differ
- By identifying data redundancies, Placekey can also be used to evaluate address data quality
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- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simple, Fast, and Free Address Standardization tool
Reviewed on 2021/05/11
We acquire address datasets from different providers and try and combine them into a single...
We acquire address datasets from different providers and try and combine them into a single dataset. The major issue we have with this process is that addresses are often either redundant or formatted differently. By just appending Placekeys to our datasets we solve both of these issues with ease.
Pros
The best thing about Placekey is that it offers some of the best quality address standardization, completely free.
Cons
Its hard to think of anything to dislike with Placekey. When it was first presented to me I was a little bit suspicious of the quality we would receive from a free product, but I have been blown away by how it just works universally - other expensive address standardization tools often have issues with at least a few addresses in our datasets, but we have yet to find an address that Placekey can’t handle.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Makes validating customer provided addresses extremely simple!
Reviewed on 2021/05/11
Customers sometimes format their addresses differently than our database does, so Placekey helps us...
Customers sometimes format their addresses differently than our database does, so Placekey helps us validate the two datasets despite the existing formatting differences.
Pros
Placekey allows us to easily check customer-entered addresses against our larger databases - even if the custoemr doesn't type in the same address we have in our records.
Cons
No real complaints. On occasion, it takes time to process a high number of request, but it's still fast and efficient enough to us. And it's free, so definitely worth it!
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Review Source
Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Free Address Standardization
Reviewed on 2021/05/11
Placekey is great because the key system fixes the issues with our raw address data and makes...
Placekey is great because the key system fixes the issues with our raw address data and makes finding redundant entries, previously a challenging and time-consuming task, very easy.
Pros
Placekey does a good job supporting its users through indepth, documentation and through support from their community. It is extremely easy to get in touch with a representative to assist with technical issues, as a result, we were able to get our API integration up and running well ahead of schedule.
Cons
Really can't think of anything I "dislike". We have had issues with address verification providers not covering some of the addresses in our databases - but Placekey doesn't have this problem at all.
Placekey FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Placekey.Q. What type of pricing plans does Placekey offer?
Placekey offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
Placekey is open-source and completely free to use.
Q. Who are the typical users of Placekey?
Placekey has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Placekey support?
Placekey supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Placekey support mobile devices?
Placekey supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Placekey integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Placekey has
Q. What level of support does Placekey offer?
Placekey offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Chat
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