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Determining which US zipcodes map to more than one state or more than one city?
There are 13 multi-state US Census' ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs): 02861, 42223, 59221, 63673, 71749, 73949, 81137, 84536, 86044, 86515, 88063, 89439 & 97635.
As others have mentioned, there ...
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Are there duplicate Zip codes in the US?
There are no duplicate ZIP Codes. There are some ZIP Codes that are multi-part polygons, but those polygons are usually adjacent.
Source: I manage/update ZIP Codes for the USPS
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Complete list of UK postcodes plus their city, county, uk country
OS Code-Point Open is probably the best you will get for free, and should provide you with all the data you need.
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Looking for postal areas for Germany
A more recent shapefile can be found here:
Postleitzahlen Deutschland (http://www.suche-postleitzahl.org/downloads)
Licensing same as OpenStreetMap Copyright and License, where the data comes from.
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US ZIP Codes +4 By State or County- Shapefile (or table/dbf)
Some background: The USPS maintains zip codes as sets of delivery zones(5 digit) and routes(+4 digits), usually along streets with address boundaries. USPS does not maintain zip codes in any shape ...
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Determining which US zipcodes map to more than one state or more than one city?
2016 TIGER Data with PostGIS
As a special caveat, ZCTA data isn't USPS Zip Codes. It's an approximation of it. USPS Zip Codes are really horrible and not useful except to approximate. Everyone, ...
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Postcodes mapping
You can download Code-point Open from https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/code-point-open.html to get a coordinate of each postcode unit that you can join to your ...
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UK Post Code Location References
Ordnance Survey provides some free open data on postcodes called 'Code-Point Open'. It is a csv of the post-code with a lat long attribute. I'd suggest getting hold of this data then extracting just ...
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Variations in postal codes: canonical forms?
All of the world's postal code formats are tabulated here: http://www.grcdi.nl/gsb/world%20postal%20code%20formats.html
Some countries may precede their postal codes with a country code, as you ...
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Seeking shapefile for postal codes/zip codes of India?
This is probabaly not the answer you are looking for, but here it is:
You won't find them, since no one (not even the Postal Department) has Authentic Boundaries.
Pin codes in India are a way of ...
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Location of UK Town to Postal Sector database or .csv
Try the Ordnance Survey Code Point Open. It has administrative district code and administrative ward code attributes you can join to ons codes to get the relevant information.
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Complete list of UK postcodes plus their city, county, uk country
I would recommend the National Statistics Postcode Lookup. It seems to be the official source.
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Map of Russia's administrative divisions
Try here: https://mydata.biz/ru/catalog/databases/borders_ru ; there are 9 levels to choose from, the most detailed of which is level 8.
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Shapefile for post codes in Portugal?
I agree you are best asking this on the Open Data stack exchange. But there is this great search tool called Google, type anything like "free portugal postcode data" and first thing it throws up is ...
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Location of UK Town to Postal Sector database or .csv
Ordnance Survey Open Names (open data) gives you postcode and populated place, where populated place is a city, town, village, or some other place where people live.
For example:
SW1A 1AA -> City of ...
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Looking for a shapefile for Europe on 4-digit postal code
You (incorrectly) assume that all postal codes in Europe have the same format.
Although 4-digit postal codes are common, there are also a lot of countries that use 5 (Germany, France, Italy, etc.). ...
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Eurostat - postcodes & LAU
May be too late for your needs but this is now published with a match to LAU/Degree of Urbanisation
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Seeking Postcode Shapefiles for UK?
https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2597
This website has the recently updated UK Postcode Area, Postcode District and Postcode Sector shapefiles in the 'GB_Postcodes.zip' file.
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Producing map of higher level regions using postal codes in SAS only?
If PROC GMAP can do this then I would expect the operation to have a name of something like Dissolve, which in other GIS packages merges polygons based on a common attribute values.
My Google ...
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Where can I find a global geocoding dataset based on postal code?
like the previous answer this is also a commercial provider:
DDS digital data services GmbH, based in Karlsruhe, Germany offers postcode data for most of the world. Much of their data targets at ...
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Where can I find a global geocoding dataset based on postal code?
You will find these data here: www.geopostcodes.com
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Looking for London postcode to area mapping data
OpenData
BoundaryLine (Ordnance Survey)
ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) May 2014 edition. This includes full UK (including Northern Ireland)
Code-POINT
Code-Point Open (May 2014)
This is a mirror ...
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Looking for London postcode to area mapping data
Start by considering synonyms for what you're calling "colloquial area", other than district or ward:
neighborhood, region, zone, etc. See if there are already maps of such areas.
Real estate agents ...
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USPS Zip Code Zone Information
Here is the code that I use to fetch the JSON data that populates http://postcalc.usps.gov/Zonecharts/.
private String getZoneJSON(String zip3Digit) {
URL url;
HttpURLConnection con;
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The number of residential addresses/houses per zip code for Toronto, Canada
I believe you can purchase it from Teranet but this kind of information is extremely expensive and possibly confidential in Ontario.
Alternatively, you could download free data from Land Information ...
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Seeking data for urban and rural areas of United Kingdom?
Have a look at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/products/area-classifications/rural-urban-definition-and-la/rural-urban-definition--england-and-wales-/index.html for the official ...
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Seeking postcode shapefiles & census data for Netherlands
Things have changed since 2015 I guess, currently there are multiple free methods to obtain data and geometry of postal codes. It is unfortunately slightly harder to find when one cannot read Dutch.
I'...
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Postal code shapefile for france?
This seems to be what you're looking for.
https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/fond-de-carte-des-codes-postaux/
The translated help file from the ZIP file is below:
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How can I get one neighbourhood name using address and/or postal code?
You might try the International Address Verification API from SmartyStreets.com. Having never been to Argentina I'm not very familiar with their neighborhood system but here is some output from the ...
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Complete list of UK postcodes plus their city, county, uk country
OS Open Names might be a better option as it has postcode, populated place (could be a city, town, village etc), unitary county, and country.
Note that these fields will not always be what you might ...
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