
Solving the Delivery Address Accuracy Problem
I built a WooCommerce checkout plugin to solve a boring but expensive problem: customers often enter addresses that are technically valid, but useless for delivery teams. Apartment blocks, rural roads, gated communities, and missing unit numbers all create failed deliveries and support overhead. The plugin adds a map-based location picker directly to checkout, so customers can search, autocomplete, or drop a pin on the exact delivery spot. Instead of relying only on free text, the order stores coordinates alongside the address. That gives merchants something precise enough to use for routing, driver handoff, and order verification. Under the hood, I used OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps, which avoids API keys, billing setup, and quota issues. The map is embedded in the WooCommerce checkout flow and can auto-detect the customer's current location when the browser allows it. I also added address search with local prioritization, so results are biased toward the area the user is curre
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