Eircode - its implemetation (merged)

ukoda · 30-12-2015 11:06AM

Alun wrote: »

I bought a washing machine in Power City yesterday, and they had a field for Eircode on their address form the salesman was filling in. Now, he didn't ask me for it, but I offered it to him (yes, I am one if those non-existent people who know theirs!) and he filled it in. I asked if they used it and he confirmed they do use it for deliveries to out of the way locations. I assume the drivers use their phones, but didn't inquire further.

contrary to what the FTAI and others would like us to believe, it's pretty easy to integrate eircode into a delivery system, for example take the eircode from the customer, look up ECAD, get the geo coordinates and send them on to the drivers handheld or in truck system with the delivery details. This can all be automated along with optimal routes and multi drop points. Or if it's not that advanced, put the geo's on the docket you hand you the driver and let him punch in the coordinates on his sat nav.

marmurr1916 · 30-12-2015 11:06PM

GJG wrote: »

I think that this is quite typical of the objections to Eircode; you don't seem to appreciate that this objection is actually not an objection to Eircode at all; could you suggest any type of postcode that would have avoided the perceived problem? I don't think so. There is no postcode that could solve your problem (other than the "I wouldn't start from here" solutions), because your problem is an interpersonal problem, not an address problem, not an Eircode problem.

Only in Ireland would people expect the government to solve their problems of social awkwardness where they feel shy to ask for someone's full address to send them a Christmas card. The fact that you were bold enough to get their address in the first place but too shy to ask for their Eircode speaks volumes. That you imagine the design of the national postcode system should be centred around some unknown solution to that problem takes the biscuit.

When Skype or mobile phones came out, nobody knew anyone's ID or number to start with. We got over it. It's time for you to build a bridge and do the same thing.

'What's your Eircode?'

'How dare you! You might as well have asked what my wife and I get up to in the bedroom. I challenge you to a duel - pistols at dawn.'

:D:D

Ted_YNWA · 30-12-2015 11:09PM

marmurr1916 wrote: »

'What's your Eircode?'

'How dare you! You might as well have asked what my wife and I get up to in the bedroom. I challenge you to a duel - pistols at dawn.'

:D:D

Where do you want this duel to happen?

Do you know the GPS /Eircode for it.,

Cookie_Monster · 30-12-2015 11:39PM

oscarBravo wrote: »

If you have to ask someone for their new address, ask them for their Eircode at the same time.

what's the likelihood that they actually know what it is, or indeed care, though?

oscarBravo · 31-12-2015 12:22AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what's the likelihood that they actually know what it is, or indeed care, though?

I don't know. I don't get the point of the question.

If you don't care what someone's Eircode is, don't bother asking them for it. If you do care, ask. What I don't get is the number of people who are reluctant to disclose their Eircode or to ask anyone else for theirs, but who simultaneously bitch about the slow uptake of postcodes in Ireland.

Eircodes will be slowly adopted because people will slowly get used to being asked for them, and slowly get used to replying with them. If you're unhappy with the rate of adoption, feel free to suggest ways it could be improved.

L1011 · 31-12-2015 02:18PM

ukoda wrote: »

So here's eBay pointing a customer to finder.eircode.ie because he didn't know he had a postcode

https://twitter.com/askebay/status/681904870862000128

https://twitter.com/askebay/status/681904913832656896

The loc8 trolling response there is utterly pathetic. I hope its not their official account as its so unprofessional as to be childish

Eircode is already vastly more accepted than loc8 was despite the building vandalism and similar stunts

Sam Russell · 02-01-2016 12:38PM

Mod: can we leave out snipes at Loc8 as they have nothing to do with the implementation of Eircode - the subject of this thread.

I have closed the anomolies thread because it had gone hopelessly off topic.

ukoda · 02-01-2016 12:51PM

Posted in other thread but probably belongs here

https://twitter.com/autoaddress/status/661169507478687745

I'm thinking dominos or just-eat are the only ones with a nationwide network?

Also the www.geohive.ie site using eircode

A lot of councils using it on www.checktheregister.ie too

plodder · 02-01-2016 01:53PM

ukoda wrote: »

Posted in other thread but probably belongs here

Since you're going to keep reposting the same stuff, it's only fair to repost the responses as well.

https://twitter.com/autoaddress/status/661169507478687745

I'm thinking dominos or just-eat are the only ones with a nationwide network?

If we had a different kind of open postcode structure, you wouldn't need to use an app to make sense of postcodes. As an amusing (or tragic) aside about how apps aren't the be all and end all, take a look at this story of a couple who missed out on a lottery jackpot because of a problem with an app

Not that I have anything against apps, but you shouldn't be forced to buy one in order to make sense of information hidden in a public database.

Also the www.geohive.ie site using eircode

A lot of councils using it on www.checktheregister.ie too

Again, it turns out that a lot of Eircodes can't be found on this site, due to problems with address inconsistencies. If your address on the electoral register is not the same as the one in ECAD, then your eircode might not be found.

ukoda · 02-01-2016 02:39PM

These guys are offering a free trial of eircode software, the form you fill out to register is the first use I've seen of eircode using address validation, you enter your eircode and hit "look up address" and that's it, your address is returned

http://www.eircodesoftware.ie/request_trial.asp

Having this as common place would cut down on so much hassle and box filling on websites

ukoda · 02-01-2016 02:49PM

Found another company using address validation

https://www.123.ie/insurance/car-insurance/quote.123#/quote-form

When you get down to the address part they ask "do you know your eircode" if you click yes, then you fill it in and it validates your address, if you click no, you manually type your address and it tries to validate it and if you get a match, it includes the eircode at the end

Irish Steve · 02-01-2016 10:07PM

Mods,

Can we PLEASE either close or lock these incredibly tortuous and circuitous Postcode threads for at least the next 6 months, on the basis that they're as boring and off topic as hell right now, and becoming increasingly vacuuous in their content. I find it slightly incredible that with a general election imminent, and the number of issues that are becoming clearer by the day, the most pressing issues to discuss in Infrastructure seems to be to navel gaze about how badly or otherwise the Eircode system has been implemented.

Sam Russell · 02-01-2016 10:43PM

Mod: I think this thread is up for closing as it is off topic. Most posters are not aware of the charter in the sticky at the third post. It should be read prior to posting.

We should be aware that some posters will be zealous about their preferred means or reason of/for putting infrastructure in place, but that this should be balanced. If you make a particular statement for or against a particular means or reason of/for putting relevant infrastructure in place, you should be willing to back it up.

This is ignored by those zealous posters both for and against Eircode.

6) Soapboxing, i.e. the constant repetition of a single viewpoint while refusing to entertain discussion or correction on it, is both disruptive and annoying, and will not be tolerated.

This is part of the above. If you have said it once, do not repeat it too soon after. We read it the first time, and it gets tiresome very quickly.

I will close this thread and infract the problem posters. if the level of discussion does not improve.

BoatMad · 03-01-2016 01:20AM

Sam Russell wrote: »

At last, someone who is not a blind fanboy of Eircode.

If you have a non-unique address and you do not know where the property is on an OS map, it is not possible to find the Eircode except by asking the addressee - which is not much use if you do not know them.

But this is a function of non unique addresses and nothing to do with eircode. No postal code can be " deduced " if you don't know the addressee lives !!

You could of course solve the problem by allowing the surname of the property owner to be displayed in an eircode search . But that brings up data protection issues

BoatMad · 03-01-2016 01:23AM

Look eircode for better or for worse is merely a hash into the GeoDirectory, in essence its a hyper link to that address record.

That was its design brief.

In that regard it has fulfilled its design brief.

Usage will come over time. I'd say a 10 year timeframe of the more correct review period l not 6 months or a year

marmurr1916 · 03-01-2016 02:36PM

Sam Russell wrote: »

Mod: I think this thread is up for closing as it is off topic. Most posters are not aware of the charter in the sticky at the third post. It should be read prior to posting.

This is ignored by those zealous posters both for and against Eircode.

This is part of the above. If you have said it once, do not repeat it too soon after. We read it the first time, and it gets tiresome very quickly.

I will close this thread and infract the problem posters. if the level of discussion does not improve.

Another Eircode thread set to be closed? I guess we'll end up with just the Eircode Implementation thread...

03-01-2016 02:39PM

marmurr1916 wrote: »

Another Eircode thread set to be closed? I guess we'll end up with just the Eircode Implementation thread...

There isn't really much more to be said anyway, except for the implementation by various organisations & individuals.

marmurr1916 · 03-01-2016 02:40PM

Eventually being asked for your Eircode will become routine, just as being asked for your postcode is routine in the UK.

This will spur people to check their Eircode, further increasing its use.

It's obviously going to be a gradual,organic process.

I look forward to the 'Nobody uses Eircode' threads five years from now...

marmurr1916 · 03-01-2016 02:43PM

Deleted User wrote: »

There isn't really much more to be said anyway, except for the implementation by various organisations & individuals.

Indeed. Eircodes are here, they're not going away and their use is gradually increasing.

Sin é.

Sam Russell · 03-01-2016 02:59PM

marmurr1916 wrote: »

Another Eircode thread set to be closed? I guess we'll end up with just the Eircode Implementation thread...

If you need another Eircode thread then start one. Just because it says Eircode in the title does not make it the place to dump the same old stuff as has appeared in all the Eircode threads already.

This thread is about An Post not using Eircode but there has been few meaningful posts on this topic for some time. The debate has been falling significantly below the standard expected.

Google and Garmin have not implemented Eircode and there is no sign of An Post using it. What more can be said?

ukoda · 03-01-2016 03:10PM

Sam Russell wrote: »

If you need another Eircode thread then start one. Just because it says Eircode in the title does not make it the place to dump the same old stuff as has appeared in all the Eircode threads already.

This thread is about An Post not using Eircode but there has been few meaningful posts on this topic for some time. The debate has been falling significantly below the standard expected.

Google and Garmin have not implemented Eircode and there is no sign of An Post using it. What more can be said?

Well there is a sign of An Post using it, they've updated their address checker to use it, so they aren't ignoring it really

http://correctaddress.anpost.ie/pages/Search.aspx

ukoda · 03-01-2016 03:36PM

If you want Siro broadband from Vodafone, they want your eircode

http://comingsoon.vodafone.ie/register/lightspeed-broadband

gizmo555 · 03-01-2016 03:55PM

ukoda wrote: »

Well there is a sign of An Post using it, they've updated their address checker to use it, so they aren't ignoring it really

http://correctaddress.anpost.ie/pages/Search.aspx

For the purposes of sorting and delivering mail, which after all is the raison d'être of postcodes, they are.

ukoda · 03-01-2016 03:56PM

ukoda wrote: »

Well there is a sign of An Post using it, they've updated their address checker to use it, so they aren't ignoring it really

http://correctaddress.anpost.ie/pages/Search.aspx

that shows they are telling everyone "your correct address has an eircode in it"

https://www.eircode.ie/business/feature

Also, An Post GeoDirectory is a reseller of eircode solutions, another sign?

https://twitter.com/Postvox/status/626039703842762753

their official twitter account telling everyone that eircode is useful, another sign?

gizmo555 · 03-01-2016 03:58PM

ukoda wrote: »

their official twitter account telling everyone that eircode is useful, another sign?

Useful how? Not so far as faster or more accurate delivery of mail is concerned, because An Post don't use it for that purpose.

ukoda · 03-01-2016 03:58PM

gizmo555 wrote: »

For the purposes of sorting and delivering mail, which after all is the raison d'être of postcodes, they are.

and have you been into their sorting offices to check this? or basing it on speculation and here say?

both the CEO of An Post and their Operations Director have told us they do use it

ukoda · 03-01-2016 04:09PM

the ONLY way to know for sure if a company does or does not use something is to ask them. as I've said, both the top guy of An Post and the Ops Director of An Post have publicly stated that they DO use eircode in their mail sortation process.

is this whole thread dedicated to calling these 2 people liars?

marmurr1916 · 03-01-2016 04:15PM

ukoda wrote: »

the ONLY way to know for sure if a company does or does not use something is to ask them. as I've said, both the top guy of An Post and the Ops Director of An Post have publicly stated that they DO use eircode in their mail sortation process.

is this whole thread dedicated to calling these 2 people liars?

That would appear to be the case. Unless people on this thread have some insider knowledge of An Post's operations which prove that they're not using it, it should be closed down.

marmurr1916 · 03-01-2016 04:17PM

Sam Russell wrote: »

If you need another Eircode thread then start one. Just because it says Eircode in the title does not make it the place to dump the same old stuff as has appeared in all the Eircode threads already.

I've no interest in starting another Eircode thread - I'm quite happy with the Implementation thread.

Sam Russell wrote: »

Google and Garmin have not implemented Eircode and there is no sign of An Post using it. What more can be said?

There are plenty of signs that An Post use it. ukoda has listed them.

gizmo555 · 03-01-2016 05:12PM

ukoda wrote: »

the ONLY way to know for sure if a company does or does not use something is to ask them. as I've said, both the top guy of An Post and the Ops Director of An Post have publicly stated that they DO use eircode in their mail sortation process.

Minister Alex White answered a written question from Deputy Michael McGrath on December 3 last, which asked inter alia, "if the [Eircode] system is being fully used by An Post".

Minister White stated "Both the CEO and Mails Operations Director of An Post have stated publicly that An Post will use Eircodes in their mail operations." (My emphasis.)

Civil servants drafting written answers are very careful and precise in their use of language, because they cannot put their ministers in the position of misleading the Dáil. I have no doubt that if Minister White had been able to say that An Post is currently using Eircodes he would have done so. Instead, he used the future tense, which would seem to indicate that An Post isn't yet using them.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2015-12-03a.789

Eircode - its implemetation (merged)

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