Get postal code in /search or /place API endpoint about pelias

[missinglink]

I guess it's not possible easily ?

It would be trivial to implement using something like PostGIS but difficult to implement with Elasticsearch.

It's been requested before but unfortunately I don't think we would consider adding it, we don't want to be offering general GIS query functionality better suited to a RDBMS.

[missinglink]

Hi @stouch, postal codes are assigned to addresses, not localities.

In the case of Lille, it has many postcodes such as 59000, 59350, 59130 etc.

If you search for an address within Lille you will get the postcode if we have it, for instance:
https://pelias.github.io/compare/#/v1/place?ids=openaddresses%3Aaddress%3Afr%2Fcountrywide%3A3e9871c9baaee154

[missinglink]

If you're interested in having a look at the postalcode coverage in France, we offer free downloads of the boundary data in Shapefile format which you can open in a desktop software GIS program such as QGIS:

https://geocode.earth/data/whosonfirst#FR

[stouch]

Hi @stouch, postal codes are assigned to addresses, not localities.

In the case of Lille, it has many postcodes such as 59000, 59350, 59130 etc.

If you search for an address within Lille you will get the postcode if we have it, for instance: https://pelias.github.io/compare/#/v1/place?ids=openaddresses%3Aaddress%3Afr%2Fcountrywide%3A3e9871c9baaee154

I'd love to get any trick to list all the postal codes of a locality, using only whosonfirst (and/or geonames) only.

I guess it's not possible easily ?

[stouch]

#887 #856 #111 GIScience/openrouteservice#1163

[Joxit]

Hi there, sorry for the hijack, we did a special API some time ago for this special use case in France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. It was supposed to be a temporary solution until an integration in pelias.

GET https://api.jawg.io/postalcode/api/postalcode?city=lille&access-token=

[
  {
    "postalcode": "2275",
    "country": "BE"
  },
  {
    "postalcode": "59160",
    "country": "FR"
  },
  {
    "postalcode": "59000",
    "country": "FR"
  },
  {
    "postalcode": "59777",
    "country": "FR"
  },
  {
    "postalcode": "59260",
    "country": "FR"
  },
  {
    "postalcode": "59800",
    "country": "FR"
  }
]

The other solution, is by using two calls, one with search/autocomplete with your city and the second one a reverse geocoding (postalcode are available in reverse geocoding in Jawg APIs), this is the best solution IMO.