Address verification
Ensure your address data is accurate. Streamline your online sales and service. Improve your customer experience.
Delivering products and services requires customer identity and delivery location to be validated. Address verification is essential for getting a product to the right place or a service to the right person.
But addresses change daily across Australia. New addresses are created, existing addresses are updated, and some are retired. It’s hard to keep up.
Geoscape address verification enables you to easily validate the address data you collect against daily updated and trusted sources.
What can I access?
Automatically validate address data as it’s entered in your online forms. Or clean and verify your entire address database at once.
Predictive API
This address validation service is embedded in online forms. It enables customers and staff to select an address from a list that is suggest to them as they type. The address fields in the form are autocompleted for the user. And the address data stored in your system is structured and verified.
The API also adds geographic coordinates to each address so they can be plotted on a map.
Upfront, automated address verification prevents data entry errors from entering your systems. Eliminate data issues with address validation at point of entry.
Batch processing
Batch address processing takes a large address dataset and cleans it to remove duplicate address records, typos and alias names. It validates the addresses against known addresses from trusted sources.
The process confirms if your customer supplied addresses are real and correct after they’ve entered your system. The output data is standardised and includes geographic coordinates for each address to enable location-based analysis.
Clean your database and avoid the cost of using invalid address data.
The Predictive API and Batch Processing validate addresses against fresh and trusted address data that includes all physical and mailing addresses in Australia.
How can I access address verification services?
We’ll find the best way to integrate address verification into your organisation’s business processes.
Geoscape APIs enable secure machine-to-machine verification of address data in the moment you need it. Access them via a tiered subscription plan for commercial use. Or register for the Beta Program to experiment for free.
Meanwhile, batch processing verifies your entire address database at once.
API
- Connect for live query and instant response.
- Formats:
- JSON
- GeoJSON
API Beta program
- Create an account and experiment for free.
- Formats:
- GeoJSON
- JSON
Batch cleansing
- Clean and validate your address database.
- Formats:
- CSV file(comma-delimited text)
Custom Enquiry
- When you need something a bit different.
How is Geoscape address verification built?
Longstanding supply agreements with Australia’s state and territory governments ensure we receive fresh address data as follows.
- Daily: ACT, NSW, WA, QLD, NT
- Weekly: SA, TAS, VIC
We use this to produce Australia’s most trusted national address dataset – the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), which includes more than 14 million physical addresses.
You can choose to validate the address data you collect against G-NAF, G-NAF Live or a dataset containing all mailing addresses in Australia. Or validate against all three at once.
No personal information is held in the data.
How can you use Geoscape address verification?
Accurate address data is essential for your organisation to operate effectively. You want your address database always clean and up to date. And to verify customer identity and delivery location as you go.
Use Geoscape APIs to reduce the cost of developing and maintaining applications that rely on accurate address data.
Eliminate the time you spend manually correcting address errors. Or dealing with the problems they cause. Improve customer service at the frontline by making it easy to enter the right address.
Combine address verification with geocoding of addresses and address data enrichment to power location-based reporting and support decision making.
Government
Embed predictive text and autocomplete in your online forms for license or grant applications and other service requests. Make entering addresses simple and fast for users and prevent data errors from entering your systems.
Education
Ensure the address data you collect at student enrolment is accurate. Verify it as it’s entered in your system or via bulk address cleansing. Avoid the expense and potential mishaps from using inaccurate data.
Utilities
Use address verification with daily updated data to verify a customer’s identity before providing a service. Ensure technicians can find a site to establish or inspect a service connection, especially in new areas.
Banking and Finance
Improve regulatory compliance. Embed upfront, automated address verification in your processes to help confirm the individuals you interact with are who they say they area. It’s seamless, scalable and secure.
How are others using Geoscape address verification?
Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW
The Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW ensures accurate address data is typed into its online form and improved complaints handling with Geoscape address verification.
More Information
Access the Geoscape API documentation hub.
Opt-in for the Geoscape Beta Program to get early and free access to new API features. And participate in product development.
Download the 12-page brochure Geoscape: The digital Australia.