Sorry for the delay in replying!

Alexander Harrowell wrote:
if you are randomly on the street, how often do you know the exact
postcode (as in X00 0XX) you're standing in, if you're not actually
on your front doorstep?

Exactly, which is why FixMyStreet accepts strings for geocoding as well, for which it uses the Google Maps API. I assume using that might be a possibility, and for postcodes too (though the API doesn't return precise results for postcodes, we use CodePoint internally).

ATB,
Matthew

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