Take your last-mile delivery performance to the next level thanks to high-quality address data and advanced geocoding.
Delivery addresses can contain all sorts of errors: illegible special characters, missing house numbers, incorrect postal codes. Drivers spend precious time searching for the right street name or number – and returns to sender increase costs.
But now there’s help: Better Places helps you conquer address chaos. It cleans, normalizes, verifies and validates addresses. Based on that data, our unique Places API delivers high-quality coordinates, so even new drivers find destinations the first time around.
Validated addresses allow drivers to pinpoint locations faster, saving time with every route.
Better Places offers accurate location information specifically designed for last-mile logistics. It assists delivery drivers with top-notch addresses, geocoded locations, and even enhanced waypoint data.
Better Places improves your address quality right from the start. It checks addresses data using special methods for each country and gets them into a standard format – the first step to more accurate geocoding. Most importantly: messy or unclear addresses won’t interfere with your work.
Better Places compares different geocoding services and chooses the best result, making your location data way more accurate. In fact, it's about 15% better than what others offer, with a success rate of up to 99%.
The extra good part: it doesn't just stop at finding the right location; it also makes sure the addresses are real and correct. You won't get tricked by false positives, and your delivery efficiency improves.
Have you ever wondered why delivery drivers sometimes struggle to find the right street location or entrance? That's because they are often stuck using rooftop or "middle" coordinates that point to the middle of a location – especially tricky when delivering to a plaza or a stadium.
Instead, Better Places provides curbside coordinates that enable drivers to find your front door easily, making deliveries smoother and more pleasant for everyone.
As you use Better Places, you benefit from the insights of thousands of drivers. Drivers can correct addresses, add delivery timeframes, share parking spots and more. Locations can be validated live by drivers on the ground as well as through scans on delivery.
If you're all about planning, you can also see how long it takes to deliver parcels at each stop. This helps you make even smarter routes.
Poor quality in address data is a persistent problem for delivery. With Better Places, we send our drivers to the right places and improve our master data significantly.
Better Places provides delivery service providers with a highly accurate address correction and geocoding tool superior to other solutions.
Inefficiencies from inaccurate delivery addresses prompted GLS Spain to adopt Better Places. After just 3 months, drivers could shave 15 minutes from every tour.
Want to get started with Better Places? All it takes is around a half a day of coding. Then you'll be ready to send addresses and get them normalized instantly. Get in touch with us (or read our FAQs) to see whether Better Places is available in your country.
Address normalization is the very first step in the address cleansing process. Unstructured raw data are “scrubbed”, removing any unwanted characters, and parsed into components. These components are then converted into a normalized format and tagged. From there, the address can be standardized according to any country database or geocoder standard. Normalized address components allow you to be much more flexible and less dependent on raw data than if you were to clean your addresses according to any one specific standard from the outset.
