2015-07-20 (Monday)
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Links
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Open Addresses UK - Alpha : Can We Make Address Entry Work For More Of Us
This, and the previous post that it links to, are a bit interesting about making more usable address inputs. I wished it could have explored more options though.
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PCA Predict, formerly Postcode Anywhere - Address lookup and verification web services
Some people on Twitter recommended this for this kind of thing. Works for international addresses.
Tweets
@PCApredict @tomtaylor I can find you fine using postcodeanywhere.co.uk :)
@peterkwells @KushalP Yeah. So many different potential ways to enter an address! Thanks.
@peterkwells @KushalP Yes, I’ve seen that, thanks. But postcode/address is a more complex and different interaction than select or not.
Re earlier question… 3 people liked postcodeanywhere.co.uk for getting addresses. And alpha.openaddressesuk.org/blog/2015/04/1… is interesting on usability.
@peterkwells @KushalP Interesting, thanks! Have you looked at usability of enter postcode -> select address from list -> form is filled in?
@tomtaylor fwiw, although they don’t have a whizzy find-as-you-type demo, the simplicity of getaddress.io looks nice.
@KushalP As far as I can tell they don’t offer this. At the moment anyway. And I wouldn’t use an Alpha for a client’s site :)
@tomtaylor Spooky… looks like they use postcodeanywhere.co.uk and I’d just opened their site when you tweeted. Ta!
Anyone got a fave ‘Enter postcode to look up address’ service? Or anything showing if they’re actually more usable than typing your address?