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Shapefile of Malaysia Postal codes?
There is no direct source for this information that would be open data.
The Global Open Data Index says that the:
From the Department of Statistics Malaysia official portal, there datasets are ...
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Shapes of ZIP codes - polygons for each ZIP code
The GIS site also has a useful answer
Most Up-To-Date Source for US Zip Code Boundaries
One thing to keep in mind is the fact that Zip Codes are not polygons, and therefore do not have boundaries. ...
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Shapes of ZIP codes - polygons for each ZIP code
The Census provides the dataset as a shapefile. I loaded it into my CartoDB account so you can download it as a GeoJSON using the following API call:
http://eschbacher.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql?q=SELECT%...
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Legacy/obsolete UK postcodes
Postcode data is now available on the ONS website.
From that page you can download a CSV file which when uncompressed is over one gigabyte in size. One of the fields is DOTERM, which gives you the ...
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Australian post code/area shapefiles
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, exact geographic boundaries for the post codes are not well defined. Indeed, the data available from the ABS are re-released periodically. However for ...
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postcode mappings for English/England regions
The Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory contains:
Regions (Former Government Office Regions - GOR)
The 9 GORs were abolished on 1 April 2011 and are now known as 'regions' for ...
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What is the best source for up-to-date postcode locations in the UK?
Ordnance Survey is an open data site you may find helpful.
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Macro Indicators of Economic Data by ZIP Codes or Cities in the US
Wolfram Mathematica comes with curated data build in. For this answer I'll restrict the data collection to only a couple of counties but it is easily expanded to more.
We will use the ...
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Macro Indicators of Economic Data by ZIP Codes or Cities in the US
I can certainly help you with the income estimates. The Census Bureau publishes mean/average income at the ZCTA level. For cities and ZCTA's, the estimate come from a pooled 5-year sample that ranges ...
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postal code boundaries for Yukon Territory, Canada
The location datasets page for Canada on OKFN's global open data index seems to contain a pretty comprehensive yet short review on the state of postcode data:
Canada Post is a Crown corporation of ...
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Search population, zipcode by city from US census API
First a note. The US Census API provides data on zip code tabulation areas, not zip codes:
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau ...
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UK lookup table for Postal Code (explicitly)
You already have the most useful lookup table that is possible given the design of super output areas and postcodes.
The problem is that postcodes are not designed for the convenience of census or ...
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Trying to link ZIP code to core-based statistical area
I think that you can get what you want from two resources:
The R package noncensus contains a data set called zip_codes that lists the following features for each zip code:
zip. U.S. ZIP (postal) ...
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Where can one find reliable, canonical (geo) data for Germany PLZ (postal zip codes)?
try this one for postal codes: http://www.suche-postleitzahl.org/downloads?download=plz-gebiete.shp.zip
Concerning the cities, I would prefer Geofabrik: http://download.geofabrik.de/europe.html
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What is the difference between Census TIGER and Gazetteer data?
I wrote to the Census and they wrote back,
The Gazetteer file you are looking at is a Cartographic Boundary Shapefile which is for small scale (limited detail) mapping projects clipped to shorelines. ...
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What is the difference between Census TIGER and Gazetteer data?
Upon closer inspection, it seems that the TIGER line zcta summary level 510 shapefile has more detail of the boundaries and the Gazetteer shapefile has simplified vertices that if I had to guess were ...
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price of commercial real estate (office space) per zip code
I'm the head researcher for a commerical real estate brokerage firm. I don't know of a perfect source for what you are looking for, but here are some proxys you might try
Paid option: Costar
http://...
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postcode mappings for English/England regions
I think that the region boundaries can be found in the OS BoundaryLine product which is open data. However that only includes administrative areas so you will need to combine it with the postcode data ...
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mean/median age for each US zip code
I did a quick export of data from the 2014 5-year ACS of the population and median age of every ZIP code: https://www.dropbox.com/s/utnthc601i82iff/census.csv?dl=0
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UK Postcode Data by City, Town, Villiage
Check the following UK Postcodes datasets:
ONS: the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL)
The NSPL does this by allocating UK postcodes to Output Areas (OA) using the same methodology as that ...
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How to link postcode to broader geographical area in the United Kingdom
There are a number of open datasets which link a postcode to a "broader geographical unit". The best dataset for the purpose depends on which "broader geographical unit" you are after.
The below list ...
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Data dump of ZIP codes to Carrier Route IDs and the centroid (lat/long.) of the Carrier Route
I was able to complete this by generating internal boundaries for Carrier Route data using Voronoi. the endpoints to query for carrier routes exist on boundaries-io.com
here is a link to a blog where ...
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mean/median age for each US zip code
American Fact Finder includes median age in their General Population and Housing Statistics reports;
General Population and Housing Statistics for Zip Code 23662 is one such table, from the 2010 US ...
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UK lookup table for Postal Code (explicitly)
The UK Data Service has files containing every single postcode and the broader geographical boundaries to which it belongs, including the MSOA (and LSOA) you are looking for. They include plenty of ...
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Postal codes of China
They are hard to find them online but here is the list I suggest for you:
http://www.gfk-geomarketing.com/en/digital_maps/china.html
I suggest you to contact the Geography department at any ...
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What is the best source for up-to-date postcode locations in the UK?
I've recently come across another useful site giving not just postcode locations (as both LatLon and OS grid reference) but also the mappings from postcodes to all higher geography units.
The census ...
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Archive of ZIP code changes
The SAS Institute posts quarterly ZIP code files to its website (you need to create a SAS profile to view the files) and they have archived files going back a number of years. That could be helpful!
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Getting updated list of US Zip Code with latitude and longitude?
This question on GIS Stackexchange provides a good overview of why this is not as simple a request as you might think. Zip codes are created, maintained and updated frequently by the USPS (US Postal ...
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Is the most up to date data from the US Census on ZIP Codes (ZCTAs) from 2010?
ZCTAs are created every 10 years for the Decennial Census. They are not representative of current zip code boundaries. Zip codes are created for mail carriers to deliver the mail, not for data ...
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