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It has been reported that the National Postcode Project Board is set to recommend that Dublin’s existing postal districts be incorporated into the alphanumeric postal code system that it is proposing for the Republic of Ireland, and that townlands remain a key component of rural addresses. Antoin O Lachtnain points out that the capital’s postal districts [...]...

Property listings website Daft.ie –Ireland’s busiest, with 400,000 registered users and more than 27 million page impressions– has upgraded its mapping service. Previously, each listed property had an accompanying Google Map indicating its location. Daft.ie now provides a single map that will indicate the location of all of its listed properties — currently [...]...

Antoin O Lachtnain has noticed that An Post, Ireland’s incumbent postal delivery service, has begun providing partial web-based access to GeoDirectory, the national address database. The PrecisionAddress Application was created by Precision Marketing Information (PMI), an An Post subsidiary. After registration, users can enter a single partial address to be verified (for instance a house number and street name) — where this results in multiple possible valid postal addresses the user can select one address from a list. Unfortunately there seems to no ability to verify batches of addresses, limiting this service’s utility for many users, and for businesses in particular. As Antoin notes, postal addresses do not necessarily conform to the hierarchy of...

Thanks to John Handelaar, Ireland now has a free rudimentary service to obtain coordinates for a given street name. Free geocoding services (such as geocoder.us for the USA) are critical to the development of useful spatially-aware applications for the public, such as online mapping services, since coordinates are fundamental to the analysis and processing of spatial information. The Republic of Ireland presents several problems for a full geocoding service: It is, barring Albania, the only country in either the Council of Europe or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) not to have a national postal code system. Dublin, though, has been split into several postal districts, within which street names are guaranteed to be unique. Over 40% of buildings...