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dboreham
1203 days ago
I suspect there are databases that will geolocate such an address.
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madjam002
1203 days 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.
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1203 days ago
The official one provided by Royal Mail is called the Postcode Address File (PAF) [0].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_Address_File
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madjam002
1203 days ago
That doesn’t provide any geolocation information (unless it’s changed recently?), for that you need OS AddressBase
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michaelt
1203 days ago
One such database is
https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode
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