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zauberware / postal-codes-json-xml-csv

Collection of postal codes in different formats, ready for importing.
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ZIP-Code does not match international ZIP format of DHL #8

Open RWD-PK opened 1 year ago

RWD-PK commented 1 year ago

Hi

first of all: you made a fantastic job on collectiong and providing all these postal-codes from so many different countries. It is an incredible relief for me in my current task of checking addresses for their quality! With the help of your list, I can check whether the towns used match the countries and postcodes. For the postcodes, I also have a check that verifies the format of the postcodes. For this I use a list from DHL (see dhl-express-internationale-plz-formate-012017.pdf). I noticed that the postcodes from your list of Great Britain, for example, do not match the DHL list. If you look at GB you'll find, it should (simplified) contain two to four chars than a space and ends with an other three chars. What is your opinion? Is the DHL list wrong, can I not check correctly or do these postcodes in your list have the wrong format?

Thank you for your tremendous work Ralf

simonfranzen commented 1 month ago

Hey, thanks for your request. After 2 years I given you a response. Sorry for the delay :D Are you still working on the project? The provided data is from the collection here https://www.geonames.org/export/ Please have a look there if you can find any kind of information regarding UK standards. Maybe we could include them into the final export