What data is expected?
A database of postcodes/zipcodes and the corresponding geospatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar co-ordinates in an openly published national co-ordinate system). A database which gives a location in terms of the name of a town or a street without lat/long co-ordinates is not considered acceptable unless the name of the town or street can be further converted to a latitude and longitude by means of other open data (eg an open gazetteer with latitude and longitude attributes).
What data is available
- Does the data exist? No
- Is data in digital form? No
- Publicly available? No(as Postal Code Search - Jamaica published by Postal Codes Database)
- Is the data available for free? No
- Is the data available online? No (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? No (HTML)
- Available in bulk? No
- Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
Details
As per Wikipedia: There was a plan to introduce postal codes in Jamaica, first announced on June 6, 2005. On February 12, 2007 it was announced that the postcode project had been suspended indefinitely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Jamaica
The legacy postcodes are available from a third party service: http://postalcodedb.com/AlphabeticSearch.aspx?country=Jamaica
Site description: Based from the Postcode/Zipcode dataset, the cities are in alphabetical order. In order to find the city, you will have to click the letter. Then it will direct you to a list of cities. When you select the city name, you will find its postcode there. Then clicking the postcode will lead you to a map and while zooming in the map, you will find the city in its parish location.
Contributors
Reviewers
- Jenny Molloy
Submitters
- Bruce HooFung