Address Management

Postcoding

Postcoding is a comprehensive online address validation tool that analyses a partially structured address string in order to return a fully formatted address and postcode, utilising the PAF data set. The unstructured address string input by the user is passed to the Postcoding module, where it is analysed and matched against the LM version of PAF. The PAF address is returned, separated into premise, street, district, town, county and postcode elements.

A series of codes is also returned, which indicates whether any assumptions have been made in order to achieve the match. Where a match is not possible, a rejection code is displayed to indicate the reason for the mismatch.