Australian Geocoded national address data to be made openly available
This is amazing. I was astonished that even zip code data is proprietary data of the USPS in the United States. It's possible to "reverse engineer" the data from publicly available census data (zip code tabulation areas) which is what I do and publish for free on ZipLocate[0]. Comparable datasets cost $499.<p>Canada's situation is even worse. Geocoder.ca has been sued by Canada Post[1] to take down their data (which Canada Post was selling for $5000).<p>The whole address data situation is really terrible. Glad to see Australia opening up the data.<p>[0] <a href="http://ziplocate.us/" rel="nofollow">http://ziplocate.us/</a><p>[1] <a href="http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1" rel="nofollow">http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</a>