Geocoding
Having an exact location is the foundation of cat analytics, directly affecting loss measures, underwriting, capital management, and reinsurance purchasing.
Purpose-built Geocoding Data
Chris Sams, Senior Product Manager, discusses the importance of purpose-built geocoding data.
Importance of Geocoding
The quality and accuracy of geocoding can make or break your model, especially when it comes to high-gradient perils such as flood, storm surge, and wildfire. A shift of a few feet can mean the difference between total loss or none at all. This makes geocoders purpose-built for insurance uses critical. RMS Geocoder delivers relevant, accurate risk management data for your needs.
Benefits
Know Where You’re Insuring
RMS curates the accurate sources of building perimeters, points of interest, land parcels, street networks, postal codes, administrative areas, and insurance market-defined boundaries to create the most fit-for-purpose insurance geospatial reference dataset for geocoding.
Manage Data on Poor Address Quality
The geographic centroid of a postcode is irrelevant for risk management purposes if there’s no exposure in its vicinity. RMS provides coordinates weighted to exposure density to ensure that you understand the best estimate of exposure on properties you underwrite when input addresses are of poor quality.
Understand the Impact of Changes
Every year administrative boundaries change, postal codes are updated/retired, new street networks are created, street names are changed, and territories are redrawn. Yet, many geocoders make these updates without concern to the end-user. RMS geospatial engineers provide detailed and thoughtful change management summaries to help you handle the impact of data changes.
Reduce Uncertainty
What if your geocoded locations are not as accurate as your match level states? False positives undermine your analytics and make inaccuracies harder to find and investigate. RMS geospatial models provide natively calculated “confidence scores” to help eliminate false positives and easily understand how the geocoder arrived at a particular match.
Resources
Importance of High-quality Data
Jordan Byk, Senior Director of Product Management, discusses the importance of high-quality data.
Quality Data at Speed
Oliver Smith, Senior Product Manager, discusses the importance of quality data at speed.
The Data Difference
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Underwriting With 20:20 Vision
Risk data delivered to underwriting platforms via application programming interfaces (API) is bringing granular exposure information and model insights to high-volume risks The insurance industry boasts some of the most sophisticated modeling capabilities in the world. And yet the average property underwriter does not have access to the kind of predictive tools that carriers use at a portfolio level to manage risk aggregation, streamline reinsurance buying…
RMS Data for Underwriting
Carriers want to write better risks, reduce underwriting frictional expense, and build consistency within their portfolios. RMS® Data for Underwriting is a rapidly expanding suite of data delivered instantly at the point of underwriting.
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