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Australian Postcodes....

Posted by JohnSmith on 31 August 2009 in English.

I'm slowly going through the Australian postcodes uploaded so far and comparing them with OSM files Franc converted from shape files.

However there is still plenty of work reviewing and importing missing delivery areas.

To make it easier to find out which postcodes have been imported and which have been reviewed I setup the following page:

http://map-data.bigtincan.com/postcodes.php

AusPost lists 2,877 postcodes in a downloadable CSV file on their website. However not all postcodes are "Delivery Areas", some are for post office boxes and some are Large Volume Recipients (LVR) such as Universities and Military bases/ships.

There is actually 2,623 Delivery Area postcodes, unfortunately we only have 2,507 osm files in total, and so far only 948 delivery areas have been imported into the OSM DB. Out of the 948 only 133 have been reviewed to have been imported correctly.

For the curious the 116 Delivery Areas that we don't have shape/OSM files for, are:

0829, 0846, 0853, 2308, 2309, 2398, 2649, 2661, 2678, 2769, 2899,
3063, 3237, 3254, 3267, 3273, 3309, 3329, 3374, 3378, 3385, 3415,
3430, 3432, 3488, 3489, 3506, 3565, 3572, 3576, 3583, 3596, 3607,
3617, 3663, 3704, 3708, 3715, 3718, 3751, 3755, 3760, 3762, 3864,
3873, 3893, 3903, 3957, 3967, 3979, 3990, 4353, 4372, 4375, 4376,
4378, 4384, 4406, 4461, 4471, 4479, 4611, 4697, 4704, 5139, 5150,
5220, 5263, 5273, 5310, 5414, 5455, 5493, 5630, 5651, 5660, 6077,
6078, 6079, 6180, 6181, 6182, 6209, 6211, 6223, 6240, 6243, 6252,
6313, 6327, 6351, 6357, 6384, 6393, 6403, 6412, 6413, 6414, 6419,
6422, 6424, 6428, 6446, 6447, 6452, 6466, 6467, 6480, 6504, 6506,
6509, 6512, 6564, 6571, 6574, 6605, 6613, 6614, 6625, 6628, 6631,
6632, 6639, 6712, 6733, 6762, 7119, 7139, 7151, 7174, 7175, 7176,
7183, 7187, 7257

Discussion

Comment from Circeus on 31 August 2009 at 17:03

Having a free half-hour, I have compiled a list of placenames corresponding to these DAs if that's any use.

Comment from JohnSmith on 1 September 2009 at 01:23

Circeus: The only problem might be legal issues using information derived from AusPost copyrighted information.

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