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0 pointsdboreham3y ago0 comments

I suspect there are databases that will geolocate such an address.

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There are and they cost upwards of £20,000 a year for a license. There’s a reason why smaller delivery companies get the address wrong and that is probably part of the issue.

_-____-_3y ago

The official one provided by Royal Mail is called the Postcode Address File (PAF) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_Address_File

madjam0023y ago

That doesn’t provide any geolocation information (unless it’s changed recently?), for that you need OS AddressBase

michaelt3y ago

One such database is https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode

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madjam0023y ago

There are and they cost upwards of £20,000 a year for a license. There’s a reason why smaller delivery companies get the address wrong and that is probably part of the issue.

_-____-_3y ago

The official one provided by Royal Mail is called the Postcode Address File (PAF) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_Address_File

madjam0023y ago

That doesn’t provide any geolocation information (unless it’s changed recently?), for that you need OS AddressBase

michaelt3y ago

One such database is https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode

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