this is an old topic but a bit of update on this, as it gets closer to have postcodes in Ireland.
Apparently they will start sending out the eircode letters to all addresses sometime around late June or July and then it will mean that eircode will be "officially" the active postcode of Ireland.
all of the individual addresses in geodirectory (i guess initially) from anpost is assigned a unique code with some small exceptions like shopping centers etc.
however due to the licensing limitations i dont think we will be able to use the eircodes in waze, unless waze or google get a usage/navigation license from eircode with ECAD database etc, which will contain coordinate information as well as others (highly unlikely but, getting access to the address search web services is another option).
of course editors can also start putting the postcodes manually, but again probably this will cause licensing issue, and will not be permitted
in short that would be great if we could use the postcodes in waze in Ireland, however i dont think we will be able to use them in a short time.
Apparently they will start sending out the eircode letters to all addresses sometime around late June or July and then it will mean that eircode will be "officially" the active postcode of Ireland.
all of the individual addresses in geodirectory (i guess initially) from anpost is assigned a unique code with some small exceptions like shopping centers etc.
however due to the licensing limitations i dont think we will be able to use the eircodes in waze, unless waze or google get a usage/navigation license from eircode with ECAD database etc, which will contain coordinate information as well as others (highly unlikely but, getting access to the address search web services is another option).
of course editors can also start putting the postcodes manually, but again probably this will cause licensing issue, and will not be permitted
in short that would be great if we could use the postcodes in waze in Ireland, however i dont think we will be able to use them in a short time.
Re: Postcodes for Ireland got announced today