I was going to do something for MashUp Australia and then got sidetracked, and decided to apply Ben Fry’s zipdecode to Australian postcodes. (After seeing that it’s been done for Germany and Switzerland).

The data isn’t quite complete (there are about 300 missing suburbs that didn’t have matching postcodes in the data file I got from thsutton@geonames…like, postcode 3000 is missing!), but otherwise, it’s interesting!

Unlike Fry’s version, I’ve almost implemented search by suburb name, so you can search by postcode or name. Dur.

It’s buggy, I haven’t ‘designed’ anything, still have to fix a lot of stuff up, and it’s all nergh, but here it is anyway:

the Australian Postdecode.

At least I promise to keep track of the progress and process with this!

Some insights:

• The most popular starting-character is ‘B’ (1665 suburbs)
• There is a suburb starting with ‘X’ (Xantippe, 6609)