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The UK's street address data is one of our most important, and problematic, public datasets.

Now, an opportunity has arisen to do something about it. Read on.

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Here's why it matters.

Let’s say you’re creating a service that uses addresses.

Perhaps you’re building the next Deliveroo. Or organising emergency food parcels.

You need a way for users to enter addresses; to locate them; and probably to match them with other data.

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It's as fundamental to public and private sector services as the periodic table is central to science.

For these reasons, other countries have official, freely available address and location data.

But the UK doesn’t.

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This causes us innumerable problems.

Whether you’re building a business, and spending endless time wrangling with what should be simple data issues...

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...or you’re a civil servant trying to deliver emergency support services at the height of a