With ID fraud an ever-growing problem, Data8's Electoral Roll Capture web service
helps you verify the identities of the people known to be living at an address.
By being able to capture name information automatically from an address means you
can then use our other services that require name information, such as our
telephone number capture service.
Want to check an existing name?
The Electoral Roll Capture service can give you names of people at an address that
you don't already have. If you just want to check the validity of a name that you have already
captured, you can use the residency verification service
instead.
The Electoral Roll Capture service from Data8 is accessed through SOAP web services,
making it simple to use from any major programming language.
Web Service URLs
The service is available on the URL:
http://webservices.data-8.co.uk/NameAppend.asmx
The WSDL definition of the service is available at:
http://webservices.data-8.co.uk/NameAppend.asmx?WSDL
Example Code
The following C# code demonstrates getting a list of names resident at an address.
NameAppend proxy = new NameAppend();
Address address = new Address();
address.Lines = AddressTextBox.Lines;
NameAppendOutput result = proxy.FindResidents(
"username",
"password",
address,
null);
if (!result.Status.Success)
throw new ApplicationException(result.Status.ErrorMessage);
foreach (Name name in result.Results)
{
NamesListBox.Items.Add(String.Format("{0} {1}",
name.Forename,
name.Surname));
}
The Electoral Roll Capture service is used as part of the multi-service demo.
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