Location datasets / 2013 39% open (avg.)

On the occasion of the 2013 OGP Summit, Romanian Government has finally launched the national open data repository. One of the first datasets published was the postcodes.

First link provided contains maps of postal areas Postal codes can also be found at: http://www.postdanmark.dk/da/Privat/Kundeservice/postnummerkort/Sider/home.aspx QA question: Please explain how to obtain the data required for this item of the census according to the definition above. The file at www.postdanmark.dk contains postcodes and town/commune names, without geolocations in lat/long or equivalent. The link is to an inventory of maps, in shape files: how would these be used to obtain a table of postcodes and their lat/long please? Answer: The postcode information is available in multiple formats for different purposes. For polygons on maps (incl. lat/long), see here http://www.gst.dk/Emner/Frie_data/Hvilke+data+er+omfattet/Hvilke+data+er+frie/Landinddelinger/DAGI/DAGI-download.htm and here http://www.adresse-info.dk/Default.aspx?tabid=220 (text in Danish, maps in shape, mapinfo and geomedia). There's also a webservice from which you can enter an address and obtain the postcode. I'm not an expert in geodata myself so in order to answer the postcode-related questions at the Census I had help from https://twitter.com/neogeografen (who might be more helpful in order to explain how to find the data of your need). Thanks to Andrew Stott and Neografen for help on this

The US Census provide zip-code centroids as part of their 2010 Gazetteer located at: http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer2010.html. The URL in this submission is the link to the specific zip file containing these centroids (along with other information) in in tab-delimted (TSV) format.

Open postcode data which meets the specification here (postcodes and corresponding geospatial locations - lat/long or equivalent) is available via the Ordnance Survey's Code-Point Open dataset, which contains the 1.4m GB post codes each with a UK national grid reference of the postcode's location in eastings and northings (convertable to lat/long by published formulae) and with the administrative area (country/county/district/ward, plus National Health Service Region and Authority) in which it is located. This is updated quarterly. Similar Postcode data for the devolved province of Northern Ireland is not available as Open Data. The main UK address database (~24m individual addresses) is confusing called the Postcode Address File. This is a subscription-only database privately owned by the Royal Mail. The Open Data User Group have been pressing for its release too - see http://data.gov.uk/blog/dont-sell-our-postcodes-odug-on-why-we-should-have-open-addressing-in-the-uk

As part of the "BAG" data which contains all addresses and buildings in the Netherlands. The data set is most likely public domain (In this http://geodata.nationaalgeoregister.nl/inspireadressen/atom/inspireadressen.xml the description link yields an XML that specifies public domain), and the national data portal lists the BAG as public domain (although provides faulty links) https://data.overheid.nl/data/dataset/basisregistratie-adressen-en-gebouwen-bag-. The downloaded data set does not contain licensing info.

Cadastre is the data holder but they provide no direct mention of the data set on their own site, just a reference to their paid for services. They are however listed as data holder and contact info in the links above as well.

The data dump is a 1.4 GB zip file, that contains 7 other zip files, yielding over 30GB of data when unpacked, split up in 21MB xml files. This is the full BAG data set, containing all addresses and buildings for all of the Netherlands. From this dataset you need to combine several subsets to get to a full postcode list: The ‘NUM’ files give you address index numbers, its georeferences, the house number and the postcode, and a number that corresponds with a street. The ‘OPR’ files give you the corresponding street name, and the number of the place it is in. The ‘WPL’ files give you the place name, and through a separate table also the municipality it is in. (Do note that is does not include postcodes that are not connected to geolocations, such as PO Boxes) See for a detailed description of the search for the Dutch postcode data; http://www.zylstra.org/blog/2013/10/theoretically-open-post-codes-not-so-much-in-practice/

The National Land Survey of Iceland distributes the data under an adaptation of the Open Government Licence. The postcodes are defined as areas. Licence: http://www.lmi.is/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/License-for-use-of-free-NLSI-data-General-Terms.pdf

The Isle of Man Government still owns the Isle of Man Post Office. Postcode searches require a registered email address (free) and rate limited to 10 searches per day.

The government IT department sells the postcode/geolocation dataset to a very small customer base of couriers, dairy co-operative doorstep milk delivery service, Tesco, etc.

An IT services company (http://www.afd.co.uk/) also resell geolocation datasets and data cleansing services.

Only in Traditional Chinese. You can chosoe formate between xml, excel and txt file.

The Portuguese postcodes/zipcodes data is made available by CTT at http://www.ctt.pt/feapl_2/app/open/postalCodeSearch/postalCodeSearch.jspx

CTT was the Portuguese national public mail service until 9th September 2014. Since this date it became a private company and there is no other public portal where the same data is made publicly available.

The postal dataset referenced is from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.003July%202011?OpenDocument - actual data in zip file at http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/subscriber.nsf/log?openagent&1270055003_poa_2011_aust_shape.zip&1270.0.55.003&Data%20Cubes&71B4572D909B934ECA2578D40012FE0D&0&July%202011&22.07.2011&Previous). This has the areas of postal areas (and shapefiles for their boundaries) from which, for example, centroids can be derived. This data is machine-readable and available in bulk and as with all ABS data is openly licensed (CC-By - see http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB). However, the ABS data is only updated on a 5-yearly basis so Note the Australian Postal Service do have a fully up-to-date database but it is not open. See e.g. https://auspost.com.au/forms/postcode-data-registration.html where you can download some data extracts from their PCODE database but under license terms that include the statement: "Australia Post grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to download and use the extract file(s) and the data contained within for non-commercial use only. Non-commercial use means any use of the data by an individual or organisation for the validation of the locality name and assigned postcode for their own purposes. You are expressly forbidden to download, copy or use all or any of the extract file(s) and the data contained within for any of the following purposes: ... [and goes on to list a large number of exclusions]"

Zipcode (Street name and Jibun)

License: http://www.toposhop.admin.ch/en/shop/terms/use/finished_products

Personal use only - that is not open ("does not allow you to copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, transfer, lease, license, reproduction and re-use")

Data is available from Post of Slovenia, but is hidden in HTML format, not available in bulk and additional skills are needed to extract it. Geodetska uprava (Slovenian equivalent of UK Ordnance survey) resells bulk data with additional GIS information.

For a simpler postname<->postnumber mapping, see this HTML table: http://www.posta.si/postne-stevilke-doma

http://www.bpo.bm/postalcodes.aspx?activemenu=40&sub=28 http://www.bpo.bm/Lists/Postal%20Codes/Attachments/1/Bermuda%20Postal%20Codes%20and%20Parishes%202013.pdf

The data is available as a table inside a PDF document. It's a simple list of settlement names and postal codes. It is not geocoded.

Direct link to download the data without coordinates (ftp://ftp2.itella.com/) requires a HTTP username and password. Itella is a northern European business services and logistics firm (see www.itella.com). Coordinate data can be purchased from elsewhere.

Discussion in finnish: http://avoindata.net/185/postinumeroalueiden-avaamista-paikkatietona-edistetty

Zipcodes are sold by the public company "Correios" (Brazilian mail service).

Canada Post is a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada. Commercial use of Canada Post's Postal Code Address Data (PCAD) product has been quoted at $50,600 per year. Canada Post claims copyright in its database of postal codes. It has recently defended its claim by filing a lawsuit against Geolytica: https://cippic.ca/en/copyright/geolytica-statement-of-defence.

The data cannot be downloaded in bulk.

Saudi Post Corporation http://www.sp.com.sa/english/Saudipost/pages/default.aspx

Saudi Post Corporation http://www.sp.com.sa/english/Saudipost/pages/default.aspx

The data is still not officially available as Open Data. The site http://adressesok.posten.no/en/postal_codes/search?q=1350 allows web queries postcode lookup to get the name of the locality. This is HTML only with a restrictive licence at http://adressesok.posten.no/en/pages/usage_terms and only one postcode can be queried at a time Once the locality is known, the geospatial dataset http://data.kartverket.no/download/content/stedsnavn-ssr-wgs84-geojson could be used to obtain a rough lat/long of the postcode. However, as suggested by the original submitter, it's been gathered and made available by a private citizen, at http://www.erikbolstad.no/geo/noreg/postnummer/. However, the privately gathered data is has some quality/accuracy issues, so it's a good question as to whether it can be considered complete. (note: moved link to comments area in line with editorial instructions.)

Two sites: http://www.indiapost.gov.in/pin/ http://data.gov.in/dataset/all-india-pincode-directory The data is available in CSV format and is updated on 22-Jul-2013. The data consists of pincodes along with post office information like address and postal code but does NOT include geographic boundaries or lat long information. The data can also be searched by location or pincode on 'http://www.indiapost.gov.in/'. The data is available completely and is from official source, i.e the site managed by National Informatics Center which is a government body. It is hard to say whether the post office address which forms each result could be connected to a lat/long location with other information as per the census requirements

Postcode data are available without georeference and under licence fee here http://www.correos.es/ss/Satellite/site/pagina-1349169615030/info

No mention of licensing so not open data

No license means it's non-open.

The data is only officially available as a web service. It is provided by the China Post (owned by gov)

The Israeli Postal Service does not allow to download zipcode data in bulk, and there is no other official source for this data after the Israeli Post has been privatized.

Unfortunately, Postcode data is managed by NZ Post, a state-owned enterprise, with a commercial model. The Postcode Network File is $400-$2100/year depending on use and the license restricts reuse.

Available for a fee (approx EUR 2000 for weekly updates per year). No plans to make it available as open data. National postal company sent takedown notice to entrepreneurs that scraped and republished some of the data.

The website http://www.poste.tn/codes.php allows to map a locality to a zip code, but the data is not open (according to the Open Definition). It is also possible to map a locality with latitude/longitude in this official government web site http://interieur.gov.tn/projects/geodata/# This second website is under Creative Commons by 3.0 licence (http://interieur.gov.tn/article/licence).

Data is under the GPO of Nepal

Egyptian post services have notoriously worsened in the recent years. The link initially provided (http://egyptpost.org/mappost/map.html) doesn't seem to work. In addition, Egypt postal code is different from one city to another as it includes the governorate, the province, the type of service and a reference to the delivery post office in the area.

This website allows to search for a zip code, but not every such one in the country is available in its database: http://www.epcodes.com/

The Postcodes are provide by Deutsche Post AG, a formal state owned, now private Company. The Postcodes can be accessed via an online Service http://www.postdirekt.de/plzserver/ However the underling datasets are not available for download and are not free of charge. They can only be purchased as a CD rom http://www.deutschepost.de/dpag?tab=1&skin=hi&check=yes&lang=de_DE&xmlFile=1015588 The only available data is provided by an unofficial open source website ( http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/).

Unsure if the Zip Code / database is fully developed to match the last Census (2011) Unsure if there is a database to correspond with longitude and latitude

Here is an extract from the website terms of use (there is no specific licence attached to the post codes database) No part of the website may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) or for any purpose, without the express written permission of the webmaster.

http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ - unnoficial source for all Moldova postal codes + latitude and a longitude

Slovak Republic is small country, so there is only about 10^4 different postcodes altogether. License is not clearly stated and there is Copyright notice at the page providing the download so "no" is filled. Latitude and longitude information is not provided in the data source but other data source (https://zbgis.skgeodesy.sk/tkgis/default.aspx - intended for users, no API) can be used to locate towns (but not streets). Thus the data is considered as NOT available.

Data are available, but without GPS coordinates. It is available via a HTML form, which allows searches based on lat and long, but the coordinates are not a part of the search results.

There is only a possibility to search for a post code providing the address. No open datasets are available online.

A database of postcodes/zipcodes and a corresponding geospatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar co-ordinates in an openly published national co-ordinate system). DOES NOT EXIST You can only get a list of postcodes, no geospatial information. At the same time we now that by url http://www.russianpost.ru/rp/servise/ru/home/postuslug/searchops1#resultancor we could find a web form using that we could find postcode by address. So we know that address data exists but it is not publicly available

The data on postal/zip codes was easily available on the site geopostcodes.com . This site even have details on the latitude and longitude of the cities of the country.

The data on postal/zip codes was easily available on the site geopostcodes.com . This site even have details on the latitude and longitude of the cities of the country.

The site http://sejmometr.pl/kody_pocztowe provides a paged, HTML list of (groups of) postal codes and the towns to which they relate. It does not provide the "geolocation" in terms of geospatial co-ordinates of individual postal codes as required in the definition. The site has an apparently open licence, but the data is not downloadable in bulk and is not (easily) machine readable.

There is a dump available of the postal code data but that cannot be related to the lat-long coordinates: http://www.sepomex.gob.mx/ServiciosLinea/Paginas/DescargaCP.aspx (Also, the license on that data only allows for private use and is therefore not open.)

It is uncertain if the data exists.

It is uncertain if the data exists.

You can search for a postal code : http://www.elta.gr/en-us/findapostcode.aspx But that does not give you the corresponding geospatial location of that postal code. Unsure if that data exists.

There is an Excel sheet of all postal codes (http://posta.hu/ugyfelszolgalat/iranyitoszam_kereso) but it doesn't contain references to where this actually is in terms of lat/long.

The data that is available from the official postal website by search does not have geolocations nor corresponding geospatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar co-ordinates in an openly published national co-ordinate system) hence the answer is data does not exist.

there are no spatial coordinates on poste.it

The suitable response here would be NOT APPLICABLE. There is no national postal code system in Ireland at the moment. However, as per press release dated October 8th 2013: 'RABBITTE GETS GREEN LIGHT FROM CABINET FOR “NEXT GENERATION POSTCODE” SYSTEM BY 2015' (http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Press+Releases/2013/RABBITTE+GETS+GREEN+LIGHT+NEXT+GEN+POSTCODE+BY+2015.htm)

postcodes/zipcodes not used so this dataset does not apply. http://futurehandling.com/2012/11/12/why-doesnt-hong-kong-have-postal-codes/

The data does not exist as per requirements of the Open Data Census. The data does exist in the form of street name, postcode and town/village name. This information however, is in PDF form and so is unreadable.

There is a postcode dataset called HEXAPOST but it is not open data and it does not provide geospatial coordinates. You can purchase it for around 500 euros from a private provider. Furthermore, there is no other official open dataset that provide geospatial information for detailed adresses or towns. So according to the definition, postcode dataset does not exist.

The data is available via search form, but no corresponding geolocations (which must be manually referenced to another separate subdistrict geolocation databases which are non-free)

The site http://sejmometr.pl/kody_pocztowe provides a paged, HTML list of (groups of) postal codes and the towns to which they relate. It does not provide the "geolocation" in terms of geospatial co-ordinates of individual postal codes as required in the definition. The site has an apparently open licence, but the data is not downloadable in bulk and is not (easily) machine readable.

There is no geospatial link for the postcodes. All that's available is the postcodes themselves with corresponding place names (http://www.bpost.be/site/nl/residential/customerservice/search/postal_codes.html).