29 thoughts on “Google Eircode

  1. Get Lost Eircodes

    Terrible that a sub standard code wins the day. Semi state and civil service corruption does pay. Losers will be general public especially those involved in non dwelling accidents. Winners will be big government and big data.

    1. Condor

      “Winners will be big government and big data.” Who are “Big Data”?! What will they win? More data?

    2. Cian

      Grow up, move on. Your systemlost (despite whatever attempts you make to pretend you aren’t a failed bidder) and you still act liked a spoiled child.

      1. Get Lost Eircodes

        Cian Loc8code never failed they were not allowed bid as tender rules were changed to exclude them. Perhaps you are a Labour supporter, after all Eircode is Rabbitte & White’s corruption.

        If so your attitude to mediocrity is understandable.

        1. Medium Sized C

          Look at yourself.
          You are calling people names on the internet because your codeset didn’t get used.

          You could be doing something else.
          Solving a problem.

          Get over it, move on.

        2. Cian

          If you would just admit to being a pissed off Loc8 rep people *might* take your seriously and debate you on the issues.

          Because of the pathetic facade you come across as nothing more than a crank. And an increasingly irrelevant one as Eircode acceptance grows – how do you feel about all the “google maps will never use eircode/can’t use eircode” rants on your website now?

  2. Tish Mahorey

    Get Lost Get Lost Eircodes.

    You’re right that Eircode is rubbish but yours isn’t any better from a user point of view.

    Any post code without an obvious geographical reference within is not going to be popular with the public. It just isn’t.

  3. Jimmee

    Going to continue using my Hibernocodes from the pre-Independence era. Bloody Irish will never learn to do anything right.

    1. Get Lost Eircodes

      Yep RANDOM code based upon a VLOOKUP to a live database will have everyone fooked when Vodafone or Three have an outage like yesterday…usability will be an issue for rural areas with poor 4G as it stands.

      No such problems from a GPS algorithm based code.

  4. Truth in the News

    Who wants it anyway, the Government, so they can fleece you to subsidse Apple
    Incidently had Noel Griffin in the Dept of Communications and previous tenure in
    Dept of the Environment anything to do with this as well Rabbitte and White, as to
    Naughten his should be stamped on posterior, so he could locate himself.

    1. GLE

      Well Govt needed a database in order to bill Rabbitte’s proposed (now scrapped) Broadcasting Tax but Eircode will really come into its own when Irish Water is resurrected.

      Rabbitte & White couldn’t introduce a billing code as there would be war but call it a postcode and the lackeys gush & rush to download it.

  5. Fact Checker

    Hi Get Lost Eircodes.

    If you’re still reading, can you tell me which of the three LOC8 codes I have generated for my address is the canonical one?

    How would a code with millions potential false positives be useful for database management, cracking down on insurance and benefit fraud, etc?

    How would you deal with apartments which would potentially contain multiple addresses with the same eircode?

      1. GLE

        Ah ha the old insurance fraud straw man. Are you aware that the current Eircode postcodes referee to a specific lat/long that being the one provided by GeoDirectory. Which by way would not licence the directory to Loc8code 5 years before Eircode was launched. So you simply use the EXACT same LAT/LONG that Eircode uses as the canonical one. Subsidiaries of An Post are already doing the exact same thing with Loc8code and have been for years.

        The only thing Eircode can do over Loc8code is bill & tax apartments but then again Eircode cannot be used to save lives in RTAs, farming accidents, forestry accidents, hiking accidents, inland waterway accidents etc.

        With regards insurance and apartments the apartment number is the unique identifier why is there a need a second one and how does it prevent insurance fraud. Remember every apartment in an apartment block will have the same Lat/Long of the centre of the block. Not a single postman will is equipped to use Eircode so post with a wrong address but correct Eircode will be delivered to the wrong address as the Eircode is NEVER cross referenced

        How can Joe Bloggs, Apartment 44, Block B Anytown, Ireland D08-XY00 prevent fraud compared to .Joe Bloggs, Apartment 44, Block B Anytown, Ireland D08-XY00?

        Furthermore up to 50,000 buildings have no Eircode and thousands more are in the wrong place. My own business is 100m from its designated Eircode.

        Eircode is about billing and taxing, nothing to do with post and nothing to do wit public safety. The fraud crackdown is more political inspired misinformation for people who can’t think.

        And if you think that the government department that helped make Denis a billionaire has changed its spots, think again DCENR do not serve the people..

        1. GLE

          sorry forgot to delete the Eircode off the second apartment address example. Like i said anyone looking for apartment needs the front door of the block, then looks for the Apartment number.

          No one will be looking for an Eircode indoors.

  6. Fact Checker

    You ask: “How can Joe Bloggs, Apartment 44, Block B Anytown, Ireland D08-XY00 prevent fraud compared to .Joe Bloggs, Apartment 44, Block B Anytown, Ireland?”

    Because the conversation will go like this:

    Fraudster: My name is Joe Bloggs, and I live at Apartment 44, Block B Anytown, Ireland D08-XY01
    Insurance company: I’ve put this into the database and the match is actually for D08-XY00. Haven’t you made a mistake?
    Fraudster: Oh yes, I must have.

    Potential fraud knocked on the head before it starts.

    Eircode can indeed be used to respond to farming accidents. Again, conversation will go like this.

    Farmer: I am stuck underneath my tractor two fields west of my house.
    Responder: What’s your address.
    Farmer: Anytownland, Anytown.
    Responder: What’s your eircode?
    Farmer: A65 F4E2
    Responder: We have someone on the way.

    The idea that any farmer is going to learn off multiple LOC8 codes of potential accident sites on her farm is just ridiculous. Eircode is much more resistant to human error as well as most mistakes will give a null response.

    1. GLE

      Wow that’s fantastic, now that Eircode is in existence for more than 2 years you might give us numerous examples of the insurance fraud that Eircode has prevented.

      If the farmer can reach for his phone he can open an app and generate a Loc8 code for his exact location, not 2 fields away…some very big fields around my neck of the woods, 2 fields over would be a wild goose chase when time may be of the essence. What if he’s 10 fields away or on some files rented 10km away???

      What if the farmer is tending sheep on a mountain many km from his home, what if he’s involved in a simple RTA in the middle of nowhere and has mobile coverage but no data coverage.

      You happy to have paid €50 million for something so useless?

  7. Fact Checker

    The two years point is completely specious. As you know they have been in the public domain for 14 months. I have no idea how much insurance fraud (if any) they have prevented. Obviously the eircode project will take DECADES to have a total impact, but this is true for many infrastructural projects. If I was managing a database for an insurance company I would be far happier to have eircodes in existence than not in existence.

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