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Milsat built mapping infrastructure for Nigeria’s digital postcode system
Nigeria launched a digital postcode system on October 1, 2026 to help identify individual buildings or delivery units.
Traditional postcodes cover broad areas, and finding a specific doorway has often depended on directions and local landmarks.
Milsat developed geospatial infrastructure for the system, building on its work collecting and managing location data.
The company says its tools are intended to make data easier to update and reuse, rather than leaving it on paper or in systems that cannot be shared.
More precise location data could help deliveries and public services, including mapping communities for vaccination programmes.
Milsat says its wider goal is to improve access to location data in Nigeria and other developing African countries.
Nigeria launched a digital postcode system on October 1, 2026, assigning codes to individual buildings or delivery units.
Milsat built the geospatial infrastructure behind the system.
The system aims to help identify buildings more precisely across cities, suburbs and rural communities.
Milsat says its broader work is to make location data easier to collect, update and use.
The company was established in 2017 and has also worked on census mapping and mapping children in rural areas for vaccine delivery.
- Who
- Milsat built the geospatial infrastructure behind Nigeria’s digital postcode system.
- What
- The system assigns codes to individual buildings or delivery units.
- When
- It launched on October 1, 2026.
- Where
- Nigeria.
- Why
- It is designed to identify specific buildings more precisely and help make location data useful to government agencies, businesses and the public.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Milsat was established to address problems with collecting and reusing location data.
Nigeria launched its digital postcode system.
TechCabal published its article about Milsat’s role in the system.
- Company
- Milsat
- Chief executive and co-founder
- Taslim Salaudeen
- Established
- 2017
- System launch
- October 1, 2026
- Postcode coverage
- Individual buildings or delivery units
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What people are saying
The clear answer is that we are not another addressing company. We are a location-data infrastructure company
Our job, or our holistic mission, is to unlock the location-data gap that exists in African developing countries like Nigeria.
Location address is just one type of location service