OFBiz and Dutch Postalcode integration

[Pierre Smits]

Hi all,

I feel proud to be able to announce that we have successfully integrated a
rest service delivering validated address details on approx 8.000.000 in
the Netherlands.

With this function contact mechanism for all kinds of physical addresses
can be validated and enriched with additional information like e.g.
latitude and longitude data, governmental ids and more.

Correct registration of physical addresses is key with respect to delivery
of documents and shipments. Yet errors are easily made resulting in
incorrect deliveries and potential delays with respect to e.g. payment of
invoices. Over 13.000 addresses change weekly as a result of municipal
reclassification, completion of construction, split up/mergers of existing
homes and the renaming of streets, cities and counties.

Our new integrated function allows Dutch users to only submit a postal code
and a house number and validated address details like street name, house
number additions, municipality, province, addres type, purpose and more are
returned for acceptance.

For more information feel free to contact me directly.

Best regards.

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

[Michael Brohl-3]

Hi Pierre,

that sounds interesting!

Is this supposed to be shared with the community?
Will it work for other countries as well?

Thanks and regards,

Michael
ecomify.de

Am 09.03.15 um 13:44 schrieb Pierre Smits:

> Hi all,
>
> I feel proud to be able to announce that we have successfully integrated a
> rest service delivering validated address details on approx 8.000.000 in
> the Netherlands.
>
> With this function contact mechanism for all kinds of physical addresses
> can be validated and enriched with additional information like e.g.
> latitude and longitude data, governmental ids and more.
>
> Correct registration of physical addresses is key with respect to delivery
> of documents and shipments. Yet errors are easily made resulting in
> incorrect deliveries and potential delays with respect to e.g. payment of
> invoices. Over 13.000 addresses change weekly as a result of municipal
> reclassification, completion of construction, split up/mergers of existing
> homes and the renaming of streets, cities and counties.
>
> Our new integrated function allows Dutch users to only submit a postal code
> and a house number and validated address details like street name, house
> number additions, municipality, province, addres type, purpose and more are
> returned for acceptance.
>
> For more information feel free to contact me directly.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Pierre Smits
>

[Pierre Smits]

Michael,

Thanks. The base registers can vary per country, and thus the postcodes (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes). 

In the Netherlands we can validate a complete set of address details by solely providing a postcode, a house number and a house number addition. See enclosed entry screenlet

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and the resulting screenlet for the postcode and house no of the Alfa brewery in my town.

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I don't know whether other countries have the same approaches. And some countries don't even use postcodes (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code).

I do know that there are service providers out there providing access to their apis, but most often that comes with a price. And there aren't many client side solutions available in Java and/or Groovy. But there are plenty written in PHP for other web solutions (e-Commerce plugins). It is a pity that we can't exploit that more (e.g. with a <event type=“php” path="component://phpcomponentl/script/php/phpcodefile.php”/>

Best regards,

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Michael Brohl <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Pierre,

that sounds interesting!

Is this supposed to be shared with the community?
Will it work for other countries as well?

Thanks and regards,

Michael
ecomify.de