Insights
Practitioner writing on address intelligence — grounded in our 37-provider global research, not vendor brochures.
NSW Point switches off 30 September 2026. Here's your migration decision tree.
What Point's decommissioning actually means, what NSW Point V3 changes, and the four migration paths available to NSW government and enterprise consumers.
The geocoding licence trap: you probably can't store the coordinates you're storing
Google forbids it. HERE charges ~US$10k/yr for it. Mapbox's cheap tier bans it. Why cache-eligibility must be enforced per provider at the routing layer — not remembered by whoever built the integration.
From 90% to 99%: the economics of cascading geocoding
Why single-provider match rates plateau around 90%, how cheap-first/premium-fallback chains lift both coverage and cost, and why your fallback chain must survive a vendor disappearing entirely — as two did in the last 12 months.
One widget, every ERP: ending the copy-paste address integration
SAP stores latitude in XCOORD1. Maximo stores it in YCOORD. Oracle calls it GEO_LATITUDE. The field-mapping crosswalk that makes one address widget genuinely plug-and-play across six platforms.