Tomas Holderness - Addresscloud Blog

Proving Serverless for Insurance

Serverless enables us to provide our geocoding, risk assessments, and property intelligence services with consistency, reliability and speed. It makes our solution scalable, allowing us to provide every customer with an extremely high quality of service no matter their size or transactional volume.

Technology

Welcome to the team Matt!

Matt Travis joins as a Geospatial Data Analyst, charged with wrangling the huge volumes of national address, property and perils data we process for clients.

Geospatial

New: Improved Risk and Accumulation Reporting

Today we are pleased to announce two new product features in our Maps application to help insurers improve their risk reporting processes.

Company

Welcome to the team Ilaria!

We are very pleased to welcome Ilaria Callegari to the Addresscloud team as our new creative front-end developer. Ilaria is in charge of creating and optimising our software interfaces, ensuring they are simple and user-friendly for our rapidly growing client base.

Cloud

Location Without Limits: Building Scaleable Geospatial Services

Addresscloud’s Intelligence service presented at the 2021 GIS Research UK Conference as an example of a geospatial application built using a serverless microservices architecture.

Company

Addresscloud Sponsors OSGeo Foundation

Addresscloud has sponsored the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) to support and promote the continuation of the open source geospatial ecosystem.

Conference

Lightning Talk: Serverless GeoTiffs

Slides from my recent presentation at Rasters Revealed 2021 on Rasterio and AWS Lambda container images.

Addressing

Announcing LandSafe - Geocoding for UAVs

Addresscloud Wins Geospatial Commission's Transport Innovation Competition

Logistics

Powered by Addresscloud: How Riverford delivers fresh food to 80,000 homes every week

This video from Ordnance Survey features Addresscloud's work with Riverford to create Kerbside in response to a surge in demand for fresh food deliveries.

Tutorials

Building with the Match API - Part 3 Reverse Geocoding

In Parts 1 [https://blog.addresscloud.com/building-with-match-part-1/] and 2 [https://blog.addresscloud.com/building-with-the-match-api-part-2/] of this series I introduced Addresscloud's Match API to search and map for an address. In this post

Addressing

Using Hexagons to Address Risk

Addresses are the way people think about place. This presentation at SDSC20 shows how we use the H3 geospatial index to make our address queries faster and more efficient.

Tutorials

Building with the Match API - Part 2 Mapping Address Points

Integrate Addresscloud's high-precision geocoding with Ordnance Survey's new Vector Tiles to map addresses to building footprints.

Geocoding

Get To The Point! Kerbside Geocoding for Logistics

Adding kerbside locations using USRNs to improve Addresscloud's geocoding solution for logistics and delivery.

Addressing

Building with the Match API - Part 1 Address Search

Build your own web page to perform an address search using Addresscloud's Match API.

Technology

Serverless PostGIS

Expanding on my recent presentation at FOSS4G UK Online 2020 this post looks at our experience running Serverless PostGIS using AWS Aurora for Postgres.

Cloud

Building for Scale: Serverless for Geospatial

Serverless is at the heart of Addresscloud - it is the mechanism by which our service scales to support hundreds of underwriters performing thousands of transactions every day.

Cloud

How We Ship Serverless

Using GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud we're able to build a continuous testing and delivery workflow to ship our serverless applications. We've published our Terraform Cloud Action on the GitHub marketplace.

Technology

Serverless Geospatial

It's an exciting time to be building geospatial tech. The volume and quality of geographic data that are now available are unprecedented. Serverless affords the opportunity to create applications without the overheads of server and database management.

Geospatial

FOSS4G 2019

Addresscloud's highlights from FOSS4G 2019.

Cloud

#GeoMob Presentation

Faster Rasters in the Cloud - presented at #GeoMob London. In the presentation I focused on how a serverless approach helped us solve the business challenge of creating efficient services around large data-sets.

Flood

A Serverless Solution for Faster Flood Queries

Mapped on a five metre grid a single raster image of Great Britain contains 24.2 billion pixels. Raster datasets make big geographic information easy to share and quick to visualise. But what