Using your pre-defined boundary files with the geocoded records produced by GeoStan™, Centrus Spatial+ enables you to look at your data in ways you probably never considered!

Geographic analysis uses the geocode to answer business problems that involve location:


In what feature is this address located?
 
What is the closest feature?
 
How far is it to the nearest feature?
 
Centrus performs all of the important business geographic functions that provide the answers to these types of business problems:

• Point in polygon
• Closest site
• Distance to line
• Distance to feature
• Distance to point

Point-In-Polygon (PIP) analysis enables you to accurately locate a set of points within a specific geographic boundary or polygon. For instance, PIP can be used to produce a list of households in a high risk area, such as a flood zone, or businesses located within the trade area of your office supply store.

PIP can also perform analyses on buffered lines, points and polygons. Buffered objects allow you to determine, for example, if a point or points are within 500 feet of a flood zone or sales territory. This ensures that "close" points are included in an area you select.

Closest site analysis is simply a distance test, much like using a compass to draw a circle around a given geographical point. For instance, using home and work addresses, an automobile insurance company could calculate the distance between two points to verify that the actual mileage agrees with the estimate provided on an application form. Or a healthcare plan could use radial analysis to provide a patient with a list of participating physicians within a mile radius of his home.