Projects

A national postcode, designed, built and ready to adopt.

Our reference project is a complete postcode system and the software that runs it, tested on a real country's map. Here is what it gives you.

Complete design
Working software
Ready to adopt

Shown on Mozambique's map as an illustration. It is our own work and ready to be adopted as an official standard.

01The code

A code anyone can read.

The first part names the place, using the regions and districts people already know. The second part pinpoints the exact spot.

MC0102C41BD

Fig. 01/One postcode, two ideasIllustrative

02Precision

Down to the doorstep.

Each code points to a square a few metres across. In a dense city, that is about the width of one house front.

Fig. 02/From a neighbourhood to a single doorstepIllustrative

03Coverage

Every corner of the country.

The design covers a whole nation from the first day. New neighbourhoods get new codes, and nothing already issued has to change.

Fig. 03/A whole country, coded region by regionIllustrative

04Stability

Codes that never change.

Streets are renamed. Boundaries move. A code, once issued, stays the same for good.

Place name

Market Road

Independence Avenue

Postcode

MC0102-C41BD

Unchanged

Fig. 04/The name changes. The code does not.Illustrative

05Built

Built and ready.

The design is ready to be used today as working software: a registry of record, a console to manage it and a public lookup anyone can search.

01Registry of record
02Management console
03Public lookup

How the technology fits together

06Adoption

Ready when you are.

01
Confirm
Agree the few choices that are yours to make.
02
Pilot
Go live in one district.
03
Roll out
Extend it to the whole country.

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Want the technical detail?

The registry tables, precision figures, governance rules and architecture are in the brochure.

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