Belgium

Verisk Synergy Studio offers the following location information schemes for Belgium:

  • CRESTA
  • District
  • District Postal
  • CRESTA Postal

Required information

For Belgium, in addition to the country code, any combination of the following information can be provided:

  • CRESTA

  • District (area, five digits)

    Area codes for Belgium used to be two digits but are now five digits.

    The five-digit version of a district code consists of the two-digit version of this district code, followed by three trailing zeros. For example, the two-digit version of the district code for Antwerpen is 11, while the corresponding five-digit district code is 11000.

  • Postal (four digits)

  • Latitude/longitude

During the geocoding process, Verisk Synergy Studio matches and processes one of the supported schemes according to the scheme rules for Belgium.

Note:

Verisk recommends using codes instead of names for these fields to ensure better match rates.

Resolution levels

The following table compares the resolution levels of the location information schemes for Belgium:

Table 1. Belgium location information scheme resolution levels
Resolution level Location information scheme
Maximum Postal (District Postal or CRESTA Postal)
District
Minimum CRESTA