CUSTOMER STORIES

The 4 Most Common Global Location

Data Challenges in 2024

Let's close the year by compiling our customer's most common location data challenges and how they solved them.

How to validate postal data 300X faster

SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS

Manually finding and validating global postal data takes time and effort. Larger cities can have hundreds of zip codes, and some countries change them regularly. Errors can lead to shipping delays and delivery problems down the line.

How DB Schenker solved it →

Improving targeting with geocoded postal data

GEOMARKETING

Inaccurate geofencing will affect the performance of your marketing activities and ad spending, impacting your revenue stream.

How Eventim solved it →

Address Matching Using Reliable Postal Data

MARKETPLACES

Maintaining a global in-house address database is challenging both time-wise and cost-wise. This often leads to dirty addresses and gaps in the data, hindering the customer experience of your website.

How Monster solved it →

Mapping risk areas to postal boundaries and points

INSURANCE

Inaccurate and outdated zip code boundaries can lead to failed identification of addresses at risk, leaving insurers open to unnecessary losses.

How Opterrix solved it →

MONTHLY CHANGES

Canada postal codes are notoriously difficult to localize. Thanks to a new public data source, the coordinates of thousands of points have been improved.

Full Postal & Street updates

Canada, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, United Kingdom

Postal database patches

(small changes)

Brazil (Coordinates)

Postal boundaries updates

United States, South Africa

Postal boundaries patches (small changes)

Armenia, Belgium, Brunei, Brazil, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Netherlands, San Marino, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vatican

Administrative boundaries patches (small changes)

Argentina

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

The world's most confusing clocks

Time zones reveal the fascinating intersection of geography and culture!

Despite its size, China uses one time zone. This means that in Tibet, the sun doesn't rise until 10 a.m. in winter, while Afghanistan is 3.5 hours behind.

Arizona has its own time mess, with some areas observing daylight savings and others not—so your watch may flip as you cross state lines.

The Diomede Islands, only 2.5 miles apart in the Pacific, are a full day apart due to the International Date Line.

Kiribati jumped across the Date Line in 1995, skipping December 31 altogether to sync with Australia's business hours.

GeoPostcodes - The world’s most confusing clocks

Time zones aren't just about clocks—they're a reflection of human culture, borders, and, occasionally, chaos. ⏳

Source: Map Men

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Kind regards,

Jérôme & the GeoPostcodes team

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