Matching your address format to other standards e.g OS Place

Hi,

We want to use your api to bring back a registered company details and then store the address and companies reg number in our database. The address format you return doesn’t match the format used by the Post Office/ Royal Mail which use for example:

Sub-building namne
Building name
Building number
Street name
Town
etc etc

Is there a reason you use a different format? Do you know any easy ways to map your fields to the more standard ones?

Thanks!

We have to accept the data submitted to us and cannot change it.
We have millions of addresses stored, (many of them are not even UK addresses) and some of this data is over 150 years old.
How you store/process/format the address data is obviously up to your systems designers.