Master Link Canada Sample

**Overview**
This sample data set covers the Toronto, ON area. This represents a subset of the full product’s geographic extent. This share also includes Address Fabric Canada dataset sample to demonstrate the join to that product. The full commercial offering features geographic coverage of the entire country of Canada.Contact [e-mail] for more information.

Created using location intelligence software to perform point-in-polygon operations with address and boundary data, Precisely's Master Link product provides a flat file of addresses associated to boundaries.

**Use cases**
- **360-Degree Customer View**
Enhance understanding of customer activity
- **Location Data Enrichment**
See the hierarchy of boundaries for an address point and link boundary information to risk, property, and demographic data
- **Market Analysis**
Perform analytics to better understand markets including identifying new potential locations

**Product details**

With Master Link, users don’t need to perform complex and time-consuming geospatial processing to understand the relationships between an address and the boundaries it falls within. Insights into customer activity, neighborhoods, and township administration are available through a quick and simple lookup. Master Link Canada includes over 16.6 Million PreciselyID lookups for the entire country of Canada.

Using the PreciselyID unique address identifier, Master Link can be used to connect with other Precisely datasets with information related to properties, natural hazard risk, points of interest, and demographics.

Master Link associates Canadian addresses to the following polygonal boundaries:

• Canadian Census Boundaries
• Canadian Neighborhoods
• Metro Areas
• Time Zones

Some sample fields for each address:

- PBKey (PreciselyID) a unique id for every addressable location in Canada (over 16.6 Million)
- Metro Name
- Neighborhood Name
- Sub-Neighborhood Name
- Census division name
- Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration name
- ADA Code (8 digits)
- DA Code (8 digits)
- Time zone & DST info

For more details, refer to the embedded notebook.

**Additional Insights**
https://help.precisely.com/r/t/1014164401/2023-12-31/Community-Link-Market-Link-and-Master-Link/pub/Latest/en-US/Community-Link-Market-Link-and-Master-Link-Product-Guide/Getting-Started