The problem every Qatar delivery has
Qatar does not use street names the way most geocoding services expect. The national addressing system assigns every building a zone number, a street number, and a building number, printed on the blue plate mounted at the property. That triple is the address. It is what a customer reads out over the phone, and it is what appears on a utility bill.
Feed "Zone 55, Street 850, Building 12" into a general-purpose geocoder built around "12 Oak Avenue" and you get an approximation, a zone centroid, or nothing at all. The result is the familiar Qatar delivery experience: a driver calling the customer, a customer sending a pin over WhatsApp, and an order that takes twenty minutes longer than it should.
The address data exists. It is published by Qatar government sources. It is simply not in a form an online store can call at checkout.
What QNA-Locator does
One HTTP request in, coordinates out.
Send a zone, street, and building number. Receive latitude and longitude for that specific building, plus ready-made Google Maps and Waze links you can drop straight into a driver's dispatch message.
That is the entire surface area, and deliberately so. It is not a mapping platform, a routing engine, or a fleet product. It answers one question that no general geocoder answers well in Qatar, and it answers it in a single call that any platform capable of an HTTP request can make.
Where the data comes from
The dataset is compiled from two independent Qatar government sources and cross-checked against each other, covering more than 163,000 verified addresses nationwide.
Cross-checking matters more than raw record count. A single government export will contain transcription errors, superseded records, and buildings that were renumbered. Two sources that agree on a coordinate give a far stronger signal than one source asserting it. Where they disagree, that record is flagged rather than silently averaged into a plausible-looking wrong answer.
The gap we are not hiding
Coverage is not one hundred percent, and no honest provider will claim it is. New construction, recently renumbered plots, and compounds with internal addressing schemes can return no match or a building-level coordinate that lands at the plot rather than the gate.
Our position is that a clear miss is more useful than a confident approximation. An API that returns "no match" lets your checkout fall back to asking the customer for a pin. An API that quietly returns the zone centroid sends a driver to the wrong end of a neighbourhood while everyone believes the address was resolved.
Where it fits in a Qatar business
The obvious integration is e-commerce checkout: validate the address as the customer types it, store the coordinates with the order, and hand the driver a working map link instead of three numbers to interpret.
Beyond that:
- Dispatch and last-mile: convert a batch of orders to coordinates for route planning.
- Field service: send a technician a pin rather than a plate reading.
- CRM cleanup: geocode a historic customer table to find which records are actually deliverable.
- Logistics quoting: compute distance-based delivery pricing from a real coordinate rather than a zone guess.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Daily limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | QAR 0 | 500 requests |
| Pro | QAR 199/month | 5,000 requests |
| Done For You | QAR 299 one-time | Integration service |
The free tier is a real tier, not a trial: 500 lookups a day covers a small store indefinitely. Requests beyond your plan's limit return HTTP 429 with your current usage and limit, so your application can handle the ceiling explicitly rather than discovering it as a silent failure. Pro can be cancelled at any time and the account returns to Free at the end of the billing period.
The Done For You option exists because most store owners do not want to touch code. We integrate the API into your WooCommerce, Shopify, Wix, or Magento store, completed within three business days of payment confirmation.
Frequently asked questions
QWhat is the Qatar Address Blue Plate system? A: Qatar's national addressing system assigns every building a zone number, street number, and building number, printed on a blue plate at the property. QNA-Locator converts that combination into real GPS coordinates.
QHow accurate is the data? A: It is built from two independent Qatar government sources, cross-checked against each other, covering over 163,000 verified addresses nationwide.
QWhat happens if I exceed my daily limit? A: Requests past the limit return HTTP 429 along with your current usage and your plan limit, so the condition is explicit in your code. Upgrading to Pro raises the ceiling to 5,000 per day.
QDo you have plugins for WooCommerce, Shopify, Wix, or Magento? A: Official plugins are in development. In the meantime the REST API works with any platform that can make an HTTP request, and the Done For You service handles the integration for you.
QCan I cancel Pro? A: Yes, at any time. The account returns to the Free tier of 500 requests per day at the end of the current billing period.
QDoes it return a Google Maps link, or just coordinates? A: Both. Each response includes latitude and longitude plus prepared Google Maps and Waze links, which is usually what you actually want to send a driver.
QIs there a free tier? A: Yes, 500 requests per day at no cost, with zone, street, and building lookup and the map links included.
Who this is for
QNA-Locator suits any Qatar business where a wrong address costs money: online stores, restaurants and grocery delivery, courier and logistics operators, field service companies, and anyone maintaining a customer database that needs to be deliverable rather than merely complete.
It is built by Abtikarat Louis Trading and Services (CR No. 173808) in Doha, alongside our other software products such as FalconMail and ForeThought. QNA-Locator runs at qna.louis-innovations.com, and you can reach us at info@louis-innovations.com.