[okfn-discuss] Postcodes, post offices and postboxes

Fri Jan 16 00:18:12 UTC 2009

I saw the post below on the get.theinfo list - which I thought might
be of interest here. While quite a few of these are already on CKAN -
I'll try and make sure they all get added and tagged 'postcode' (and
perhaps also 'zip', at least for US ones).

Today, I also came across this:

  http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes
  http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices

Jonathan

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Geonames has released their Postal Code DB's in bulk under CC-BY:
  http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/
Kickass.
flip

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Philip (flip) Kromer
<flip at infochimps.org> wrote:
>
> Summarizing, and adding a few more:
>
> Geonames.org -- scrapeable:
>    http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/
> ... but possibly available by request
>    http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/734.page
> US Zip codes from Census Bureau -- ZCTAs (not ZIPs):
>    http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html
> explanation of ZCTA:
>    http://www.census.gov/geo/ZCTA/zcta.html
> 1999 data; pre-ZCTA:
>    http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/zip1999.html
> Mixed commercial/free Terms of Service attached:
>    http://www.maxmind.com/app/postalcode
> UK-only, crowdsourced:
>    http://www.freethepostcode.org/
>    http://www.npemap.org.uk/
> 404'd:
>    http://civicspacelabs.org/zipcodedb
> lots here, but poor US coverage:
>   http://www.eventme.com/pc/PostalCodeHelp.aspx
> US & Canada (provenance? recency?):
>    http://www.populardata.com/downloads.html
> http://benfry.com/zipdecode/
> ... or email Aaron Swartz for (probably best) US ZIP data
>
> ... Address & Other Geocoding
>
> placenames, no postal codes (?); API or bulk download
>    http://download.geonames.org/export/
> API
>    http://geocoder.us/
> Scrapeable
>    http://www.getlatlon.com
> resources
>    http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/
> IP-Address to Geolocation or ASN:
>   http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry
> and sequelae. (mixed commercial / open licenses apply)

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:44 AM, mkwong8888 at hotmail.com
<mkwong8888 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> IP Address Geolocation
> http://www.ip2location.com
>
> ZIP Code Geolocation
> http://www.zipcodeworld.com
>
> GIS Geolocation
> http://www.geodatasource.com

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