The Global Datastore is a comprehensive repository containing two types of information:
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Reference Data, which includes extensive international postal data for 230+ countries and territories, including data on names, addresses, time zones, geo-code coordinates, and other related data.
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Knowledge Base, which includes country-specific rules required to parse raw names and addresses to extract the required fields, such as title, surname, premise, and city.
The data available in the Global Datastore varies by country. Some data sets contain data down to the level of individual premise numbers or names, others contain coverage only to the level of street, postcode, or city.