Product Sheets

1. Product Introduction

Product Name: Postal Database
Version: 2025.07
Coverage: 240+ countries & territories (full global coverage)
Update Frequency: Continuous synchronization (avg. 3 updates/week)

Description: Comprehensive global postal dataset containing postal codes, localities, administrative divisions (up to 4 levels), and geographic coordinates.

The dataset is standardized across all countries and georeferenced in WGS84, enabling seamless integration into logistics systems, ERP platforms, validation engines, GIS tools, and analytics pipelines.

The database also includes business/administrative postal codes, ISO/FIPS/NUTS/HASC codes, time zones, and multilingual place names.

2. Data Delivery

File Formats: CSV (UTF-8, semicolon-delimited), ASC (ASCII), DAT (UTF-16), GML, GeoJSON, KML, Shapefile

Encoding: UTF-8 (CSV default)
Delimiter: Semicolon (;)
Header Row: Yes

Access Methods

• GeoPostcodes Customer Portal

• Download API

• Snowflake Data Share*
  
  

3. Data Model (Postal Database)

Denormalized Tables

The dataset is delivered in a denormalized structure with the following main tables:

• Places - postal codes and localities (core table)

• Regions – administrative hierarchy (levels 0–4)

• Business – business reserved and non-geographic postal codes (Not POI)

Model Characteristics

• Hierarchical structure:
  - Administrative Levels 0–4 (Region1–Region4)

  - Locality
  - Postcodes (in all countries with an active ZIP/postcode system)
  - Suburbs (if applicable)

• CRS: WGS84 (EPSG:4326)

• Geocoordinates: Center points

• Standardization:
  ISO 3166-1 (countries)

  ISO 3166-2 (subdivisions)
  IANA Timezone alignment

• Stable IDs for tracking changes across updates
• Available in:
  

  Denormalized format
  Normalized relational model