Guide to Solving the 4 Most Common Address Data Struggles, Monthly Changes, and the Largest Desert in the World: Antarctica. 
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Hi, I’m Jérôme Urbain, head of Products, wishing you a Happy New Year. I’ll be here to share more location data knowledge this 2025 and look forward to achieving great results together. Let’s dive into this month's updates!

Solve the 4 most common address data challenges

Monthly changes

❄️ The largest desert in the world: Antarctica ❄️

GUIDE

Solve the 4 most common address data challenges

The start of the year is a good moment to make sure your location data is accurate. Integrate our the latest data and get some tips for improving your address data processing.

Address structures vary across borders

Navigating global postal systems can be tricky. While most use zip codes, some countries work with other references, such as cities. Here's a compilation of countries with alternative postal systems.

Alternative postal systems  →

Address structures vary across borders
Transliteration article

Managing non-latin alphabets

Tackling global addresses means accommodating multiple alphabets. Learn how transliteration bridges the gap for a unified database.

Address transliteration basics  →

Constant zip code changes

ZIP codes evolve frequently, impacting your address accuracy. Understand how to adapt and explore international ZIP code formats with this guide.

Guide to global zip code formats  →

Constant zip code changes
https://www.geopostcodes.com/blog/address-cleansing/

Simplify address data maintenance

Manually managing global address data is time-intensive. Explore best practices and cleansing methods to save time and costs.

Optimized data cleansing process  →

Our team is committed to help you overcome any location data issue you'd face in 2025.

Contact our experts

MONTHLY CHANGES

 In December, we updated 183,142 rows in our postal database.

Full Postal & Street updates

Hungary, Poland

Postal database patches

(small changes)

Belgium (Municipality merge), Cyprus (Business), France (Alternative names for big cities' arrondissements), Guam (Alternative names), Ukraine (Regions codes), United Kingdom (Postcodes)

Postal boundaries updates

Hungary, New Zealand

Postal boundaries patches (small changes)

Austria, Canada, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Palestine, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine, United States

Administrative boundaries patches (small changes)

Falkland Islands, Finland, Spain

For a detailed changelog, take a look at the CSV file.

The largest desert in the world: Antartica

Did you know that Antarctica is the world's largest desert? 

Despite its icy landscape, it receives less than 2 inches of precipitation annually, classifying it as a desert.

 

This frozen field holds about 70% of Earth's freshwater, locked away in its massive ice sheets.

 

Intriguingly, Antarctica is also home to the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the driest places on Earth, where some areas haven't seen rain for nearly 2 million years.

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So, next time you think of deserts, remember: they aren't all hot and sandy—some are cold and icy, too!

 

Follow us on LinkedIn for more geographical facts like this!

Kind regards,

 

Jérôme & the GeoPostcodes team

 

 

 

PS: Interested in previous Monthly Product Updates? Read here.

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