Germany

Germany location information schemes.

  • CRESTA
  • Region
  • Region District
  • CRESTA District
  • Region District Postal
  • CRESTA District Postal

Required information

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

  • CRESTA
  • Region/Federal State (area, two digits)
  • District (subarea, kreise, five digits) Verisk Synergy Studio remaps subareas in Germany to postal codes.
  • Postal (five digits)
  • Latitude/longitude

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

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 Germany:

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