👋 Hi there! In this edition of The Geodata Insider, we're releasing new country address format pages as well as major updates to our Vietnam and Israel ZIP code data.

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🌏 Country address format guides are now live

✡️ Major update of postal codes in Israel

🏞️ Vietnam: new postal and administrative model available

🔎 Monthly changes

🏝️ The quiet drift of continents

Country address format guides are now live

Expanding into new countries often means dealing with unfamiliar address structures.

We’ve launched country-specific address format guides that show each country's official rules and how every required element maps to our datasets.

This helps you design forms correctly and validate addresses with confidence.

The result: fewer integration errors and smoother international rollouts.

We're adding new countries regularly, so stay tuned.

Major update of postal codes in Israel

We’ve performed a significant update of our Postal database in Israel, adding more than 95,000 new postal codes.

To ensure your applications rely on the most accurate and complete data, we recommend refreshing your datasets and switching to the latest version.

Result: better coverage, fewer invalid postcodes, and more reliable address validation.

Vietnam: new postal and administrative model available as separate data

Vietnam has implemented major reforms to both its administrative divisions and postal code system, including a deep restructuring of subdivisions and a reduction in the number of postal codes (from ~20,000 to ~3,000).

Given the disruptive nature of these changes, we're offering the new model as a separate dataset so you don't have to transition immediately.

You can continue using the previous administrative structure and 5-digit postal codes without interruption.

If you're ready to adopt the updated hierarchy and postal codes, simply reach out to us.

MONTHLY CHANGES

 In February, we updated 323,873 rows in our postal database.

Full Postal & Street updates

Croatia, Germany, Israel

Postal database patches

(small changes)

Belgium (Postal code), Brunei Darussalam (Post towns introduced), China (Postal Codes), France (Administrative divisions)

Postal boundaries updates

Croatia, United States

Postal boundaries patches (small changes)

China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom

Admin boundaries patches (small changes)

Italy, Germany, Switzerland

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

The quiet drift of continents

Did you know continents are drifting apart at about the same speed your fingernails grow? 

Modern GPS measurements confirm plates creep only a few centimeters per year.

About 200 million years ago, all the continents were joined into the supercontinent Pangaea.

Research shows that as Pangaea broke up, continents like Africa and South America moved apart, driven by heat and rising rock deep in Earth’s mantle.

That slow drift stretches over thousands of kilometres over millions of years, reshaping oceans, mountains, and even shaping life’s evolution.

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Kind regards,

Jérôme & the GeoPostcodes team

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