Additional Info

Creator	Malachy Donohue
Organisation
Online URL
Public Sector Body	DCENR, An Post
Potential Use	Website forms, Data processing, Data cleansing
Likes	26
Created	7 mbliana ó shin
Dúnta	7 mbliana ó shin
Open Data	Ceann ar bith

Current Discussion

• Josh (Unauthenticated user) (1 bhliain ó shin)

  What a disgrace.

• Mike (Unauthenticated user) (2 bhliain ó shin)

  Any way to snag the DB online?

• Tibi (Unauthenticated user) (4 bliana ó shin)

  In the UK the dataset for ALL UK postcodes is free for grabs from ONS UK.

  There is a partially free alternative for geolocation use cases: https://what3words.com/products/public-api/

• Tom (Unauthenticated user) (4 bliana ó shin)

  Really very upsetting that there is no API available, just robbery service providers offer the access for 150 Euro per year. Same service is free or minimal 20-30 Euro in other countries. No one is hearing the voice from here, because this is good business for certain people.

• James Gough (Unauthenticated user) (4 bliana ó shin)

  I maintain an online ordering app and recently have started looking for ways to do eircode validation. It sucks that this info isn't public but it makes sense in way because Irish postcodes are unique in that they specify exactly where that domicile is. Anyway, I am applying for a corporate license here as per instructions here: https://www.osi.ie/services/public-sector-eircode-api-locator-service/ I will post any update on my application and advice for others looking to do similar work.

• Shane O'Sullivan (Unauthenticated user) (4 bliana ó shin)

  The lack of this dataset is stifling innovation in Ireland, with ridiculously large paywalls being put in front of public data. There can be no excuse for this.

• Pat (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  Open source this to help tackle deliveries in COVID! Courier heroes need this ASAP

• Keith Doyle (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  Disgraceful

• Joe Desbonnet (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  This sounds like a very sensible suggestion and cannot be argued away by the need for eircode company to make money. If anything it will encourage more use. As an aside privatizing important national information infrastructure like eircode was a really bad decision in the first place.

• Aga (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  Stupid idiots!!! it was funded by taxpayers so release the database of eircodes scums !

• Gery (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  Disgusting that these fools want people to pay for service which was funded from taxpayers money. Tells a lot about irish ripoff mentality.

• Matthew Rawlings (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  Could start with just the pubs.

• Giuseppe De Francesco (Unauthenticated user) (5 bliana ó shin)

  Why is this closed? The dataset has not been created and is badly needed.

• Brian (Unauthenticated user) (6 bliana ó shin)

  Prices are crazy for using any of these services. We got quoted €0.36 per lookup. This was meant to make life easier but great job putting paywalls up for something the taxpayer paid for.

• Ronaan Keane (Unauthenticated user) (6 bliana ó shin)

  I strongly second Malachy Donohue's proposal. The taxpayer put €40 million into setting this up, and now that investment has turned to making private profit? Is there any other country in the world who do this with their national post codes? (granted, de facto codes in our case). Anyway, from my perspective, due to the very significant expense, small companies are effectively prevented from doing something which should be very simple, for their Irish customers, to better serve them online. Thanks.

• MBeakey (7 mbliana ó shin)

  This is a commercially available service. Capita who trade as Eircode, are the Eircode Management Licence Holder on behalf of the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment, have in place over 36 approved Eircode Providers. Many of these Providers have created automated API’s for validating Eircodes in real-time, auto-populating/auto-fill address forms and provide other specialist value-added services. These API’s can be seen when applying online for insurance, fast food deliveries, event tickets etc. A list and contact details of these providers can be found on the Eircode website, https://www.eircode.ie/business/feature. Eircode also provide and maintain the free online Eircode Finder tool. This tool is available to the general public free of charge, limited to a maximum of 15 searches per day at this time of the year. For further information on the Eircode Providers, Eircode Finder Tool and other queries please contact Eircode at hello@eircode.ie

• MBeakey (7 mbliana ó shin)

  Query referred to DCCAE for consideraton on 18/4/2018

• Liam Tierney (Unauthenticated user) (7 mbliana ó shin)

  A "Proximate Validation API" would be good enough. A lot of mistakes are of the kind abc 0123 or abc o123 , sometimes the mistakes exist and sometimes not.

  If an eircode is submitted with a centroid an API confirms whether

  a) that eircode exists anywhere b) that eircode exists within 5km b) if not how many km away it is from the centre location

  This is a good enough system to sort out complete garbage data.