News

Find out all of the latest news stories from GeoDirectory including updates to our products, our most recent reports and highlights from some of our recent and upcoming events.

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Success Stories

National Transport Agency

The GeoDirectory dataset is a key component in the National Transport Authority methodology for population growth forecasting.

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The Land Development Agency use GeoDirectory’s data to enrich the State Asset Database to locate all vacant and derelict properties and analyse existing house stock to provide insights for new housing developments.

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UCD

GeoDirectory's data has enriched research for UCD staff, researchers, academics, and PhD students since February 2020.

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Ireland Emergency Service

GeoDirectory is used by Ireland’s emergency services to respond rapidly to 999 calls. You need to know exactly where you’re going – and the fastest route to get there

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SIRO

SIRO are a new player in the broadband market who aim to provide fibre broadband to the Irish market. See how they have used GeoDirectory to do this

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The Property Registration Authority

GeoDirectory is integral to the Property Registration Authority’s new state-of-the art, digital map of Ireland’s land holdings.

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Tesco

The supermarket giant, Tesco, is rapidly growing its sales across Ireland using the unique power of the GeoDirectory database

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Daft

Founded in 1997 by two brothers who were still in their teens and early twenties, the Daft.ie website transformed the way people bought and rented houses in Ireland.

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Irish Life Health

Irish Life Health is one of Ireland’s leading health insurers with over 100,000 customers across the Republic of Ireland.

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Domino's Pizza

Setting up an online delivery service capable of delivering fast food to customers is a complex operation requiring a system of storing millions of pieces of accurate information which can be sorted and retrieved in a micro-second.

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Waterford County Council

By optimising the routes using GeoDirectory, the council was able to reduce the number of bin lorries on the road from three to two – a 33% reduction. This meant significant savings on fuel and other running costs.

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The Cork Taxi Co-Op

Customers are impressed that even before they’ve finished telling us the full address, we know the name of the house.

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Aviva

By combining custom-built GIS software with GeoDirectory’s electronic register of unique addresses and precise locations, Aviva was able to systematically analyse claims patterns.

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ESB Networks

GeoDirectory helped ESB Networks to embark on a detailed customer referencing project. This extensive project covered 1.9 million households and businesses throughout Ireland.

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Bord Gáis

Customers are the lifeblood of any business and one of the key business uses that Bord Gáis Networks has for GeoDirectory is in identifying new potential customers and also categorising those potential customers.

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Central Statistics Office

The CSO, which provides the State with its figures relating to population and population change, has used GeoDirectory for the last three censuses.

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11890 Directory Inquiries

Phone any ‘ordinary’ directory service and they’ll send you a number. Phone 11890 and they’ll send you the number and detailed directions and a map to the venue or destination you’ve requested.

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MyPlan.ie

The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government website, Myplan.ie, is the national resource for those seeking free open data sets regarding planning information.

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