GLOSSARYPreciselyID
What is it and why it is important?
What is the Precisely ID?
The PreciselyID is a unique, persistent identifier assigned to addressable locations. As a single, stable reference point, it provides a consistent way to identify addresses — even when key details like street names or postal codes change.
This accuracy is essential for managing location-based data; it acts like a fingerprint, resolving ambiguity and inconsistencies, while also making it fast and easy to link address records across datasets without tedious data prep.
Assigned during the geocoding step of the geo addressing process, the PreciselyID travels with an address across the Precisely data ecosystem. Once it’s appended, you can easily enrich an address with thousands of attributes — place and business details, property characteristics, demographics, boundary data, risk indicators, and more — without requiring complex spatial processing each time.
How does PreciselyID work?
The PreciselyID is appended to an address during the geocoding step of the geo addressing process. The geo addressing process combines address verification, geocoding, and unique identifier assignment in a single workflow, accelerating time-to-value and ensuring you can trust and use your address data in critical workflows.
Here’s what that means in practice:
- Address verification: Your address data is parsed, standardized, cleansed, and validated against Master Location Data (MLD) — a multi-million-record geocoding reference dataset covering over 250 countries and territories.
- Geocoding: Each verified address is assigned hyper-accurate latitude and longitude coordinates, often at rooftop level.
- PreciselyID assignment: A unique, persistent identifier is appended to each geocoded record — locking in a stable reference that persists across datasets and over time.
Once a PreciselyID is assigned, it becomes the key that unlocks seamless connectivity to the full Precisely data enrichment portfolio: over 400 expertly curated datasets and 9,000 attributes, all linked via unique identifiers. This allows you to perform data enrichment as simply as a table join, enhancing address data with rich contextual information about that specific location — without requiring complex joins or repeated spatial processing.
Why is PreciselyID important?
Address data is critical to most modern businesses, but it’s notoriously difficult to work with. Formats vary by country, records change over time, and joining multiple datasets around a physical location typically requires time-consuming spatial analysis.
The PreciselyID eliminates that friction. Because it’s persistent, unique, and consistent, it ensures you have stable addresses for operations and analysis while also connecting address data to Precisely’s pre-linked data ecosystem — letting you easily analyze an address from multiple perspectives by streamlining data enrichment with unique identifiers that link datasets. That means:
- No more wrestling with different address formats, languages, or structures across countries
- Faster data enrichment with far less manual prep
- The ability to easily join addresses with datasets from across the Precisely data ecosystem — property, demographics, risk, points of interest, and more
- Simplified internal data management, with a consistent, unique identifier to work from across your CRM, ERP, data warehouses, and analytics systems
The result: your team spends more time generating insights that drive decisions.
Where does PreciselyID fit in data integrity?
Data integrity — data that is accurate, consistent, and contextual — depends on your ability to trust the connections and relationships between datasets. The PreciselyID makes it seamless to connect your address data with other critical data attributes.
It bridges Precisely geo addressing capabilities with our data enrichment portfolio, turning a verified, geocoded address into a gateway for deeper context. Think of it as the connective tissue between location accuracy and the richer business intelligence that makes that accuracy actionable.
Within the Precisely Data Integrity Suite, appending the PreciselyID is a core component of the Geo Addressing service geocoding step — helping organizations connect trusted, data at scale.
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