Hi there,
I've recently had to change a function that validates UK postcodes
(via pattern matching) because we found it was not accurate with a lot
of crazy London postcodes. I changed the function to be a little more
leniant in the hope that if it APPEARS like a UK postcode then Google
Maps would slap us and tell us it was incorrect when we sent it off to
get the coordinates.

However something interesting is happening, when I decided to test
some made-up postcodes (which follow the pattern but aren't real)
Google Maps returned the coordinates 18.5544, 73.9057
The strange thing is that ALL of the made up postcodes I tried come
back with these coordinates.

Are they some kind of default "I have no idea" response? If so why
does Google Maps still return a code 200?

The postcodes I tried are as follows:
ZZ8 4DT
FF2 8DD
FF4 0DD

The only connection I can draw is that the first two alpha characters
are the same.

Any ideas would be appreciated!
Kind regards,
Graeme

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