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What data is expected?

A database of postcodes/zipcodes and the corresponding spatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar coordinates in an openly published national coordinate system). If a postcode/zipcode system does not exist in the country, please submit a dataset of administrative borders. Data submitted in this category must satisfy the following minimum conditions

• Zipcodes
• Address
• Coordinate (latitude longitude)
• national level

• updated once a year

• Administrative boundaries

• Boarders poligone
• name of poligone (city, neighborhood)
• national level
• updated once a year

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? No
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV, PDF)
•   Available in bulk? No
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? No published by Australian Post)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? No (No URL given)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

Australian Post provides postcode data as a free PDF that enables you to look up postcodes for non-commercial use only.

You need a license to use the Australian postcode data for commercial or business purposes. Standard and complementary CSV data files can be purchased at http://auspost.com.au/business-solutions/postcode-data.html

Data is updated monthly.

Postal Areas, the Australian Bureau of Statistics approximation of Australia Post postcodes, are described here and the data is available in a zip file.

This has the areas of postal areas (and shapefiles for their boundaries). This data is machine-readable, available in bulk, openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics data is only updated every 5 years.

Reviewer comments

The Australian Post free non-commercial use PDF does not provide any lat-long info. On the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the Postal Codes page it is stated:"Allocations have been determined using the best available information on postcode boundaries. Unfortunately, official postcode boundaries have not been updated since the early 1990s and none of the more recent interpretations have been endorsed by Australia Post."