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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > IP Address Geolocation > http://www.ip2location.com > > ZIP Code Geolocation > http://www.zipcodeworld.com > > GIS Geolocation > http://www.geodatasource.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [from the http://groups.google.com/group/get-theinfo mailing list] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
