Taiwan

Taiwan location information schemes.

  • CRESTA
  • County
  • County District
  • CRESTA District
  • CRESTA Postal

Required information

These location information schemes require the following information:

  • The CRESTA location information scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, as well as a valid CRESTA name or code.
  • The County scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, as well as a valid two-digit sector code or sector name in the Area field.
  • The County District scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, as well as a valid sector (county) name or code in the Area field and a valid four-digit district code or district name in the Subarea field.
  • The CRESTA District scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, as well as a valid CRESTA name or code and a valid four-digit district code or district name in the Subarea field.
  • The CRESTA Postal scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, as well as a valid CRESTA name or code and a valid three-digit municipality code in the Postal field.

Applicable geocode match levels

Verisk Synergy Studio matches these sets of information at the following levels:

  • At a CRESTA centroid geocode match level if you supply the country and CRESTA (CRESTA location information scheme)
  • At a District centroid geocode match level if you supply the country and county/sector (area) name or code (County location information scheme)
  • At a Postal Code centroid geocode match level if you supply the country, county/sector (area) name or code, and district (subarea) (County District location information scheme)
  • At a Postal Code centroid geocode match level if you supply the country, CRESTA, and district (subarea) (CRESTA District location information scheme)
  • At a Postal Code centroid geocode match level if you supply the country, CRESTA, and municipality (postal) (CRESTA Postal location information scheme)
Note:

The Verisk Synergy Studio database contains many remapped county/sector-level location records for Taiwan. Consequently, if you enter location data for Taiwan at a county/sector (area) level, Verisk Synergy Studio matches this location data at a higher resolution level to meet model requirements, thereby providing the corresponding district (subarea-level) location data.

Resolution levels

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

Table 1. Taiwan location information scheme resolution levels
Resolution level Location information scheme
Maximum CRESTA Postal (Municipality)
CRESTA District
County District
County
Minimum CRESTA