ZIPList Canada Geocode TM (July 2008)
Canadian postal code ASCII data file with latitude, longitude, city, province, area code, time zone and daylight saving time information for all of Canada!
Description
This comma-delimited ASCII data file lists every city and postal code for all of Canada. Includes latitude, longitude, area code, time zone and daylight saving time. Use this data file with popular commercial database programs such as MS Access, dBase, Paradox, FoxPro, etc. Available for immediate download in native MS Access, dBase, and Paradox formats. You can incorporate this data into your own dealer/store locator applications to find all stores within a radius or to find the closest store. (We include the distance calculation equations.)
- More than 780,000 records
- Covers all thirteen provinces, including Nunavut
- Updated quarterly
Note: Canadian postal codes and US ZIP codes are also available in one combined file, ZIPList Can-USA Geocode.
Record Layout
The data records of the ZIPList Canada Geocode file consist of nine quote-delimited, comma-separated, ASCII text fields, arranged as follows:
"City Name","Province Code","Postal Code","Preferred flag","Area Code","Time zone","DST","Latitude","Longitude" CRLF
The fields are defined as follows:
| Field | Type | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Name | Variable length ASCII | 30 maximum | ||
| Province Code | Fixed length ASCII | 2 | ||
| Postal Code | Fixed length ASCII | 6 alphanumeric characters, plus embedded space | ||
| Preferred? | Fixed length ASCII | 1 ("P", or "A") | ||
| Area Code | Fixed length ASCII | 3 numeric characters | ||
| Time zone | Fixed length ASCII | 5 ("NST", "EST", "EST+1", "CST", "MST", "PST") | ||
| DST | Fixed length ASCII | 1 ("Y" or "N") | ||
| Latitude | Fixed length ASCII | 7 characters: nn.nnnn | ||
| Longitude | Variable length ASCII | 7 or 8 characters: nnn.nnnn |
The City Name field identifies the city associated with that postal code. There may be several different city names associated with a particular postal code. If so, the same postal code will appear in several different records, each with a different city name. You can use the Preferred? field to find the best city name to use with the postal code in this case. City names include special French characters where appropriate.
The postal code field contains only valid 6-character Canadian postal codes currently defined by Canada Post Corporation (CPC). Obsolete postal codes which have been "retired" from service by CPC are not included in this database. A particular postal code may appear in more than one record if the postal code crosses the boundary between two cities.
The Preferred? flag can have one of two states, which indicate whether or not the postal code exists in more than one city (very few do), and which of those city names is the best to use with this postal code. The two states are:
- P - This record contains the primary city name for this postal code
- A - This record contains an alternate city name for this postal code
The area code is the "most prevalent" area code for that one postal code. If multiple area codes apply to that one postal code, only the primary area code is listed. Overlay area codes are not listed.
The time zone field always contains the standard time zone designation for a particular postal code. If that postal code falls within a political entity which participates in daylight saving time (DST) during the summer months, the DST field is set to "Y". Otherwise the DST field is set to "N".
The latitude and longitude fields contain the geographic coordinates in degrees to four decimal places, providing a general level of accuracy of under 100 feet. Latitude and longitude are measured north from the equator or west from the prime meridian. Longitude for all Canadian postal codes is presented as a positive number to minimize the file size.
For larger Canadian cities, we resolve the latitude and longitude based on the first three characters of the postal code (known as the "Forward Sortation Area", or FSA), which corresponds to the 5-digit ZIP code level in the US. The larger Canadian cities often have more than 50 FSAs. This keeps the cost of the product within reason, yet provides a level of resolution perfect for dealer locator and store locator applications.
For rural areas, in most cases, the database contains the latitude and longitude of the center of the city or town. For villages and very small towns in close proximity the database contains the latitude and longitude of the general geographic area. In general, the latitude and longitude values relate to the geographic centroid of the area, not the population centroid.
The latitude/longitude resolution of ZIPList Canada Geocode is equivalent to that of our sister product ZIPList5 Geocode. The two products can readily be combined, since they provide equivalent levels of resolution.
Sample Records
"Scotch Lake","NS","B1Y 3X1","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.1800","60.3700"
"Barrachois","NS","B1Y 3X2","P","902","EST+1","Y","45.7300","63.2700"
"Millville","NS","B1Y 3X3","P","902","EST+1","Y","45.0000","64.8200"
"Little Bras d'Or","NS","B1Y 3X4","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.2300","60.2800"
"Hillside Boularderie","NS","B1Y 3X5","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.2300","60.3800"
"Florence","NS","B1Y 3X6","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.2700","60.2700"
"Mill Creek","NS","B1Y 3X7","P","902","EST+1","Y","45.7679","64.3645"
"Point Aconi","NS","B1Y 3X8","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.3300","60.3000"
"Bras d'Or","NS","B1Y 3X9","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.2500","60.2800"
"Hillside Boularderie","NS","B1Y 3Y1","P","902","EST+1","Y","46.2300","60.3800"
Click here to download a self-extracting file containing sample records in Access 97 format (about 31 KB).
Click here to download a self-extracting file containing sample records in comma-delimited ASCII format (about 24 KB).
Available File Formats
| Format | Compression | Download Size | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comma-delimited ASCII | self-extracting | 2.4 MB | ||
| Microsoft Access 2000 | self-extracting | 6.4 MB | ||
| Microsoft Access 97 | self-extracting | 6.2 MB | ||
| Paradox 8 | self-extracting | 2.4 MB | ||
| dBase | self-extracting | 2.4 MB | ||
| Comma-delimited ASCII | PKZip | 2.4 MB |
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