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Lacslink, Using lacslink, Lacs – Pitney Bowes MapMarker USA User Manual

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Chapter 7:

LACS

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User Guide

MapMarker geocodes your data while CASS processing and provides a printed report of the
address standardization operation.

You can geocode using the CASS standards for any table, local or remote, without producing a
report or conforming closely to the output columns. In this case, you do not qualify for the bulk
mailing discount, but you are still geocoding your records to stricter matching standards.

LACS

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LACS

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is a data product provided by the USPS

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that enables addresses that have been

converted because of municipality changes or 911 emergency systems to be linked with their
updated addresses. The LACS

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database provided by the USPS contains a nationwide list of

converted addresses.

The LACS

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technology and data have been added into MapMarker for use when you geocode in

CASS mode. LACS

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processing enables you to check your addresses against the LACS

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database, and receive the converted address for any input address that has been converted. Most
address conversions are the result of changes by the local governments that convert rural style
addresses to street-style addresses for 911 conversions. Other addresses are converted because of
changes to street names or P.O. Box™ renumbering.

Although you run LACS

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when you do CASS™ mode geocoding, it is a separate process from

geocoding. LACS

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is an address standardization tool only. Records that undergo LACS

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processing are not geocoded. The converted address is returned in the candidate list, but no
coordinates are returned with it. These records have an S0 result code. To geocode the converted
addresses, you must do a second geocode pass on the table.

LACS

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processing for an input address takes place under these circumstances:

Input address is matched to a record in the Address Dictionary that has a LACS indicator set to
“L.”

Input address is matched to a record in the Address Dictionary that is a Rural Route default.

Input address does not match a record in the Address Dictionary.

See the following topics:

Using LACSLink
Street Directionals with DPV
DPV and LACSLink Usage Guidelines and Requirements

Using LACS

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To use LACS

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, do the following:

1. If you have not done so already, add the required CASS columns to the table that you want to

geocode. See

CASS Geocoding on page 138

for information on the columns.

2. Start MapMarker.