Confirm Data Accuracy: Best Practices – Denmark (da_DK)

Research involves verifying the data through an official source (i.e. official website or claimed social media) or 3 unofficial sources. Clearly unreliable sources should not be considered at all.

Use official resources like businesses’ official websites, national postal service websites, and government websites whenever possible (Guidelines section 2.1.1)

If you can’t verify the data correct or incorrect, rate Can’t Verify.

To give you some guidance, please see below some of the resources that Analysts from Denmark (da_DK) market have reported to be helpful when performing research:

Helpful Map Applications:

Google Maps
danmarksadresser.dk
Bing Maps
gps-coordinates.net
mapsview.net

Helpful resources to research Address Accuracy

Official website/social media (always first step!)
datacvr.virk.dk/data
danmarksadresser.dk
Postnord
TripAdvisor
Virk, Proff

Helpful resources to research Name

Accuracy

Official company websites (always first step!)
datacvr.virk.dk/data
Google/Bing web search
visitdenmark.com
Facebook, Tripadvisor

Helpful resources to research Pin Accuracy

Google Maps, Bing Maps
Street Imagery, Satellite Imagery
Official website/social media
danmarksadresser.dk
edc.dk, dingeo.dk
gps-coordinates.net
mapsview.net

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Tips:

The main resource for checking Address accuracy should be the official website or the datacvr.virk.dk/data and for address validity in Denmark is danmarksadresser.dk as that is an official government website.
For name accuracy, address accuracy and to check if a business exists if no official website you can verify using data using the official government website (daracvr.virk.dk/data)
In danmarksadresser.dk you can turn on “matrikelkort” to help define the boundaries of a specific address.
Always look for official website, most businesses have them. If not, check CVR registry the official government registry of all privately-owned businesses. If there’s a discrepancy between official website and the CVR registry, always trust the official website.
For addresses and pin locations use a combination of street view and http://danmarksadresser.dk/forside/0/2 When it comes to determine if the locality result, we are looking at a sub-locality that are missing the locality or it’s actually a locality, copy paste the town name into the box marked “Bynavn” on the postal service website. If the town is listed in the results under the column “Stednavn” then this is a sub-locality (village) that needs the “Bynavn” (locality) in the result as well.

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