General
What is a Transaction?
You may need to make multiple Autoaddress API calls to capture an address. Every keystroke is a separate API call if using Autocomplete. Our intellige...
What are Address Types?
Every row in an Address Table has an associated Address Type. The Address Tables are as follows: Address Table ORGANISATION ADDRESS_POINT BUILDING ...
What is an Address Profile?
In other countries address cleaning is a simple concept. There is an accepted official version of an address, and the cleaning process is simply to ma...
Is it easy to determine the Eircode Routing Key of every address?
The Eircode Routing Key is the first three characters of an Eircode. There are 139 of these in Ireland, which is five times more detailed than Countie...
How to link Eircode to Census, Local Authorities, etc.
One of the most useful tables in the Eircode Address Database is the ADMINISTRATIVE_INFO table. You can determine if a building is in a Gaeltacht are...
What is your Data Retention Policy?
In line with the Autoaddress ISO policies and standards, any data files transferred to Autoaddress via approved channels will automatically be deleted...
Do you have Routing Key boundaries?
You can view the 139 Eircode Routing Keys on this Interactive Google Map The data is derived from Small Area boundaries from data.gov.ie and Eircod...
Do you have CSO lookup tables for Small Area, County, etc.?
The SMALL_AREA_ID in the ADMINISTRATIVE_INFO table can be matched to the corresponding CSO Small Area for Census 2022 with the following lookup table....
Do you have a Regex for Eircode?
The following regular expression detects all valid 139 Eircode Routing Keys and Unique Identifiers. It recognizes the optional space between the Routi...
Do you have example addresses to test my implementation?
Result Example Address 100 Ilac Centre, Henry Street, Dublin 1 120 Autoaddress, 4 Inns Court, Winetavern Street, Dublin 8, D08 XY01 130 5 Inns Court,...
How well has the address matched?
You can get an initial view of how well the address has matched by checking the Result object. Broadly we have three scenarios: We have a Postcode We ...
How does Irish addressing work and what are Postal, Geographic and Preferred Addresses?
There is no official address for any location in Ireland. People living in the same street or townland or even the same house may write their address...
How do I get Map Coordinates for an Address?
The Autoaddress API can return map coordinates for a full or partial address match. First, you call FindAddress to return an addressId for the addres...
What is Intelligent Grouping?
When many address options are returned, intelligent grouping allows these addresses to be grouped together into clusters of 20 addresses as well as pr...
How do I prevent browser’s auto-generated saved address from clashing with Autoaddress plugin?
The Autoaddress plugin by default inserts the search input with the HTML attribute autocomplete="off", which usually prevents the autocomplete and aut...
How do I get the County from the address?
You can always determine the County for an address from its last line. The last line of every address is either a County, a County Town or a Dublin P...