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Unlock the full potential of your ZIP code data

Unlock the full potential of your ZIP code data

👋 Hi there! In this edition of The Geodata Insider, I'm sharing two blogs to help you get more value from your zip code data—first with smarter analysis, then by choosing the right tools. I believe you'll find these useful!

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📈 Extracting actionable insights from zip codes

🛠️ Choose the right tool for your zip code analysis 

🗽 Major zip code boundaries update in the USA

⛴️ Update on the UNLOCODEs database

🔎 Monthly changes

🏔️ Norway's coast: A cartographer's nightmare 

Blog highlight

Extracting actionable insights from zip codes

Learn how to clean your zip code data, choose the right mapping approach, and leverage visualization tools for actionable business insights.

 

Read the article 

Choose the right tool for zip code analysis 

Discover how platforms like Power BI, Tableau, or CARTO can help you clean, map, and visualize your zip code data.

 

Which tool fits my needs? →

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Major zip code boundaries update in the USA

A full country update will be rolled out soon, affecting over 30,000 polygons across the USA. As usual, all shapes are perfectly matched and available in high resolution and visualization precision.

 

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Update on the UNLOCODEs database

The Enhanced UNLOCODEs database includes the latest official update of 12 core columns. We have also enriched them with recommended corrections and links to real cities and regions.

 

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Monthly changes

Monthly changes

In April, we updated 12,536 rows in our postal database.

 

Full Postal & Street updates

Sweden, South Korea

Postal database patches

(small changes)

Canada (Postcodes)
Ireland (Administrative Divisions)
Italy (Postcodes)
Kyrgyzstan (Administrative Divisions name change)
Eswatini

Postal boundary updates

United States of America

Postal boundary patches (small changes)

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Brunei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia, El Salvador, Faroe Islands, French Polynesia, Greece, Guadeloupe, Japan, Jordan, Kiribati, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, New Zealand, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia,  Saudi Arabia, South Africa

Administrative boundaries patches (small changes)

Germany, United Kingdom, Malaysia

For a detailed changelog, take a look at the CSV file.

Norway's coast: A cartographer's nightmare 

Welcome to the coastline paradox—a geographic brain teaser where the length of a coastline depends entirely on how closely you measure it.

Take Norway. If you measure its jagged coast with a 100 km ruler, you'll get around 25,000 km.
 
But switch to a 1 km ruler, and suddenly, it stretches beyond 100,000 km. That's longer than the equator!
 
Why? Norway's coast is full of nooks, crannies, and fjords. The smaller the measurement unit, the more detail you capture—and the longer the coastline becomes.
 
This occurrence isn't a math error—it's just nature being delightfully complicated.  

Source: National Geographic.

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Kind regards,

 

Jerome & the GeoPostcodes team

 

 

 

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by "Jérôme from GeoPostcodes" <jerome@geopostcodes.com> - 06:45 - 8 May 2025