Verisk Synergy Studio location information schemes

Verisk Synergy Studio supports one or more location information schemes for supplying non-street-level location data for exposures in each modeled country.

For all countries, the supported resolution levels for exposure data fall into one or more categories:

Table 1. Location data resolution levels
Resolution Description Examples
Subarea 2 A Sompo, Locality, Postal Area Unit, or other name/code describing a very small, precise area
  • Mexico: Locality code 310020014 (Dzitiná, Acanceh, Yucatan)
  • New Zealand: Postal Area Unit 570100 (Wilford, Wellington)
Postal Area A Postal, Parish, District, LDU, Yubin, or other name/code describing a small area
  • Canada: LDU code V3W4G3 (Surrey, BC)
  • Japan: Yubin code 7372303 (Nomi-cho, Takata, Etajima-shi, Hiroshima)
Subarea A County, FSA, Municipio, District, Ward/KU, Province, or other name/code describing a larger area within a region of a country
  • Canada: FSA code K2T (Kanata, Ottawa)
  • Ecuador: Canton code 1701 (Quito, Pichincha)
CRESTA / Area A CRESTA, State, District, Region, or other similar code describing a major area within a country or the country as a whole
  • Chile: CRESTA code 3 (Santiago)
  • China: Province code 14 (Shanxi)
  • United Kingdom: CRESTA code BA (Bath)