Technology - Addresscloud Blog

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.

Addressing

Addresscloud partners with Ambiental to address climate change risk

Geo-coding and property intelligence experts Addresscloud have partnered with a leading provider of flood and climate risk data, Ambiental Risk Analytics (Ambiental), company of Royal HaskoningDHV, to bring advanced climate change data to the insurer market.

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

In the News: A new approach to using data to mitigate risk

In an exclusive interview for Insurance Business magazine, Mark Varley spoke to Mia Wallace about Addresscloud’s approach to innovation and the importance of finding the right solution for clients.

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.

Technology

Elasticsearch for Geo

We wanted to build a service that was lightning-fast but able to cope with the complex nuances of addresses, Elasticsearch gave us all of this out of the box and we have not looked back

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.

Technology

Serverless Zoomstack on AWS

Learn how to serve vector tiles for mapping using the Amazon CloudFront service to provide a global audience with low latency at very low cost

Geospatial

FOSS4G 2019

Addresscloud's highlights from FOSS4G 2019.

Insurance

Risk assessing functional sites with Addresscloud

Addresscloud customers can perform lightning fast risk assessments at address level, but what if the risk spans a whole site? Today we launch our new custom areas tool backed by a new API endpoint which allows our users to assess any shape for flood, subsidence and crime in less than a second.

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