european post codes

leugim

hi all

we are searching for a list (or several lists) containing the zip/post codes of EU countries.
has anyone of you got some list like this??

thanks

kine

I am afraid that in most cases the DB will cost you something... see e.g. http://www.geopostcodes.com
Or some countries have free copy, but you will need to search for them one by one (country by country).

David_Singleton

leugim wrote:

hi all

we are searching for a list (or several lists) containing the zip/post codes of EU countries.
has anyone of you got some list like this??

thanks

Be careful with this. Every country has its own laws, so the data may be copyrighted in one country but not in another. So just make sure that before you share this that its legally obtained.

But if you do find it, then I think its somethign that many client s would like to buy.

David_Singleton

Hey Kamil,

do you ever leave your computer?

tompynation

well, for belgium you can download the list for free:

http://www.post.be/site/nl/postal_codes.html

And the one for the Netherlands you can get from the wikipedia page:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_Nederland

mart1n0

Well isn't it your lucky day.

I just posted an article on my blog with some links to daily dumps of postal codes for free!
http://noisyvan.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/perfect-source-for-postal-codes-info-and-downloads/

I just started blogging a few weeks ago entering all stuff I have lying around in word files etc. for myself. I guess it might be usefull for other people too after all.

So you can go to the site trough the article on my blog :oops: or just go straight to the site of with the postal codes: http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/

David_Singleton

mart1n0 wrote:

... or just go straight to the site of with the postal codes: http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/

the link http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ is great, and it seems to be created under the creative commons framework:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License,
see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The Data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness

Thanks Martin.

David_Singleton

David Singleton wrote:

mart1n0 wrote:

... or just go straight to the site of with the postal codes: http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/

the link http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ is great, and it seems to be created under the creative commons framework:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License,
see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The Data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness

Thanks Martin.

Ah no. Just looked closer, and these are not post codes. So no luck there.

It did seem odd that someone could give out all Europeans post codes without legal issues.

mart1n0

Hi David, thanks for pointing me out I gave the wrong link, I corrected it know :-).
It should be ZIP not dump at the end of the URL.

Please don't start copying the link all over the place, there is a reason why it's not easy to see this link on their website. They want to prevent mass downloads of the files by everyone every day. It is still a free project after all.

David_Singleton

That's the one. \:D/