This is a simple library, app and importer to handle geocoded Australian postcode data written in Go. It is very much a work in progress so feel free to fork and submit pull requests for both the code and the raw data.
The data is provided by Datalicious:
http://blog.datalicious.com/free-download-all-australian-postcodes-geocod/
Please note, this data originally comes from Auspost and is free for non-commercial use but in commercial applications it requires a licence.
http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data
To include the library in your projects, go get it:
$ go get github.com/tomjowitt/ozdata
And import it:
import (
"github.com/tomjowitt/ozdata/lib"
)
To use the data within your code:
suburbs, err := ozdata.NewSuburbs()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
var postcode int64 = 2042
suburb, err := suburbs.Suburb(postcode)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Println(suburb)
// prints: {Enmore 2042 {-33.899362 151.171098} {New South Wales NSW Sydney {Australia AU} [{2000 2999}]}}
// do something with suburb
The response is a Suburb type with the following data structure:
type Suburb struct {
Name string
Postcode int64
Coordinate struct {
Lat float64
Long float64
}
State struct {
Name string
Code string
Capital string
Country struct {
Name string
Code string
}
PostcodeRange [] struct {
Low int64
High int64
}
}
}
To query the data using the built-in app simply pass a p (postcode) flag to the application:
$ go run app/main.go -p 2041
To run the importer:
$ go run import/main.go
This will read data from the data/import.csv spreadsheet and load it into json objects. This only needs to be run if updates to the raw csv data have occurred.
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