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Canadian Postal Code Database
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:00 pm
by s.dot
Finding a Free US Zip Code => city/state/longitude/latitude database was not a problem, they were everywhere.
However I'm having troubles finding a Canadian one. Does anyone know where I can download a FREE Canadian Postal Code database?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:17 am
by anjanesh
And Im looking for India's. I guess only US has provided their db to the public.
Is there a way to get the lats and longs of zipcodes using google earth ?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:59 am
by s.dot
anjanesh wrote:And Im looking for India's. I guess only US has provided their db to the public.
Is there a way to get the lats and longs of zipcodes using google earth ?
I googled extensively when I was looking for Canada's and I saw databases of hundreds of countries (surely India was included) available for subscription.
I am just too cheap to pay for one

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:48 am
by anjanesh
Can you pl name the link - I doubt if all countries are covered - this has to be done by the govt's satellite or something like that isnt.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:39 pm
by s.dot
Err I can't seem to find the page I was looking for, but this page seems quite similar.
http://www.embassyworld.com/data/Zip_Codes.html
I'm not sure if databases are available there.
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:10 pm
by m3mn0n
I think Canada Post is selling a db.
http://www.canadapost.ca
If the info is not on the site, give them a ring.
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:06 pm
by PCSpectraRetired
Just to reconfirm...
You cannot download a freely available database of Postal Codes for Canada. It doesn't exist - i've looked and contacted CPost about it.
I'm not sure if you could create your own - which I thought of doing, using their postal code maps and a lat/long plotter, but that's probably copyright infringment.
Your basically stuck having to pay the $$$ for their database

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:29 am
by m3mn0n
Yeah. You'd be hard-pressed to find a free anything nowadays in regards to large databases.
Your best bet would be to buy it, I think.
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:52 am
by John Cartwright
Geo-Databases don't come cheap.. my university is buying such databases all the times for tens of thousands of dollars.