Comments on: New Zealand Postcode Database

By: Lara Dutta

Lara Dutta — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:59:18 +0000

i would like to appreciate ur efforts….gr8 job….cheers!

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:00:37 +0000

Hi
I just saw this blog and wondered if you could help me.
I am looking to check distances between NZ postcodes so that I can check how many business are in one area ( and within certain distance from each postcode )

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks John

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:27:35 +0000

Any progress on the districts (esp councils) correlation with postcodes? It would be very useful. . .

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:39:30 +0000

Hi, we are looking for a system to identify the general area of the country the post code is from and calculate the distance between NZ post codes. Will your info do this or can you suggest where we might be able to get this?

By: noodles

noodles — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:06 +0000

It contains every region, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to list the regions in the database as regions change depending on what source you look at.

It’s on the list of things to do.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:21:25 +0000

Hi,

Thanks so much for this. Does it actually contain every region and it’s associate suburbs for NZ??

Thanks so much – > how do I make a donation?
Eric

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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:36:32 +0000

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By: gerard

gerard — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:25:41 +0000

Our company, hscr, is a survey research company which specialises in surveying hospital and GP patients about the quality of care they have recently received. Each fortnight we send out 500+ letters to Auckland patients and in addition when we have special projects we may need to send thousands of questionnaires to people all over NZ.
The new postcode system is great except that even when we have an Excel file of all the postcodes (Thanks a million noodles!!! I am happy to pay a small contribution to your efforts!) we still need a macro that looks at the columns of addresses that we have and assigns the correct postcode – of course our addresses have all kinds of different formats and abbreviations (“ave”,”rd”, etc.) Is there such a macro available somewhere?

By: xurizaemon

xurizaemon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:21 +0000

We’ve identified some inaccuracies in the NZ Post web lookup tool.

Here’s hoping their PDF was a better data source than their online version!

See http://tinyurl.com/46dsav OR http://glob.bushi.net.nz/glob/2006/09/25/seaview-road-piha-or-paihia-but-not-waitakere-thanks-nz-post/

Moral: some addresses as supplied by locals just won’t work, even if 100% accurate – take care with user supplied data, I guess.

By: Vivienne

Vivienne — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:58:54 +0000

Hi there
Where would I get this data? I am interested in suburb, postcode, latitude and longitude.

Thanks so much – great thread!
Vivien

By: Walter Scheer

Walter Scheer — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:07:18 +0000

Looking to do bulk mail outs …do you know how i can do this price effective…what changes are at hand in that department of NZ Post ?
Give me a low down please, there must be a better way…Walter

By: Badcop666

Badcop666 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:59:21 +0000

Hi Noodles,
this has been well received, thanks for your efforts, endlessly massaging data is a time honoured and poorly paid activity.

I’ll be using this for an Ajax postcode lookup tool in Zen Cart during signup and/or general address entry.

If you’ve any working php/javascript code you’ré happy to share that would be appreciated, I’ll certainly flick you a copy of anything I come up with.

thanks again
Andy

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:40:34 +0000

Ok… that’s weird. My inquiry was deleted. It was an honest question because I don’t know much about the postcode system in New Zealand and wanted to make sure whatever data set I use is accurate. I suppose I have to assume that something sneaky and underhanded is going on here since my question was simply censored and deleted with no response whatsoever. Though I find this really odd and strange that somebody would want to do that??

By: JayJay

JayJay — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:40:43 +0000

YOU R THE MAN Noodles…..Thank you so much. This will help with our intranet project.

Thanks again….and again….and again….and again….and….

By: David Wharekura

David Wharekura — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:12:59 +0000

I had been doing the same thing by extracting the post office’s PDF via an OCR program which then dumped it into a Microsoft SQL Server database in which I then attempted to create a matching process (via MS SQL Server Stored Procs) to update addresses with the new post codes.

However, this was some time ago in my spare time. If people are interested I can re kinder the light and might revisit my work.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:19:40 +0000

Hi Noodles,
First, congrats for all your work on the postcodes. I downloaded your version 1 a few weeks ago (just before version 2) and also noticed the odd error and gap, so decided to see if I might produce the same data directly from NZ Post’s own PDF file. After a combination of “Perl and Perspiration”, I’m not too far off, although I still notice more errors every time I have another look. There are some *really* odd street names and synonyms around!

Your Version 2, with the lats and longs, is obviously even more handy but I see you’ve omitted the suburbs and regions on the grounds that NZ Post’s suburb/district/region tables are different from everyone else’s! Even so, I think I’ll use the above to put them back.

Not sure what I really need all this for but it annoys me that the government could easily make these SQL scripts freely available from its own databases which public money has already paid for.

Thanks again, keep up the good work and I’ll keep you posted (pun intended)!

Wayne

By: josh

josh — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:12:22 +0000

Hi, nice site! Please tell me how I can get the region associated with a suburb, street, or town.
Thank You

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:33:55 +0000

First of all – Thanks for all your trouble!

Second – I’m not sure exactly how to interpret/use the ‘matchedaddress’ column. It looks to me as if it can be used as an extra validation if a match on just columns ‘street’;'suburb’;'postcode’ failed?

Cheers
Louise

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New Zealand Postcode Database (V2) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:48:13 +0000

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By: AlanMc

AlanMc — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:58:27 +0000

Hi, can you send me a copy of the database in CSV file format please? Did you ever get a chance to include PO Boxes?

Cheers

-Alan

By: David Harrop, New Plymouth

David Harrop, New Plymouth — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:31:42 +0000

Have been referred to this site by NZ Post!
Our voluntary organisation has some 1500 post codes to alter, and I asked them for help.

I am not very computer literate, what program should I use to open your data?

Thanks

David

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:44:46 +0000

Thanks for the database, very much appreciated. There are a couple of errors where long names from other rows have overrun into the one listed. These are at:
[streetid] [street]
11151 Pasteur Street
11393 Argyll Street
15196 McCarthy Crescent
15715 Tamaki Street
18446 Matai Street
22451 Stout Street
23295 Banks Place
23300 Baring Terrace
23322 Blackwell St

Andrew

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:12:49 +0000

Hi there, is it possible for us to obtain a copy of the data in a csv file. We also need this to get geographical distances between member. Has anyone done this yet. Also if it hasnt been done, is there somewhere we can send members to look up their latitudes and longitudes which maybe we can get them to enter at the time of registration?

City
State / Province
Latitude
Longitude

By: sydneyshan

sydneyshan — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:39:22 +0000

For anyone interested, I’ve launched a product written in PHP that allows you to search for nearby postcodes (based on a kilometer radius) and calculate the approximate distance between postcodes using an accurate NZ postcode database. An Australian version is also available.

See http://www.dreamscapemedia.com.au/products/nz_postcode_locator/

-Shannon

By: Blurb

Blurb — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:18:24 +0000

Hey Noodles and other fantastic people here on your blog.

I’ve been looking for postcodes for a while (to use in my getting back into work project) and another member on the ACCFORUM.org website pointed me here. Great stuff. Yes, I’m a disabled person (from work injury) who is fighting the ACC. Is anyone here able to help with the tech stuff on my project? Once up and running it is open for other acc claimants to jump in and possibly create some sort of job for themselves. Anyway, bthanks.

Fran