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[Post New]25/01/2009 20:27:23
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sleidia



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terryh wrote:
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I thought you were going to get the separate postal codes data and use that?
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The separate postal codes aren't the one common people use here.
The postal codes we use are the ones stored in alternate_names which means that the column for postal codes become useless for France.

Anyway, thanks again for your help
[Post New]26/01/2009 11:22:29
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terryh



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It's easy enough to extract just the postcode from the alternate_names field, for France.

It looks like the postcode always pre-ceeds any text and it's always 5 digits long.
There's a few ways you could extract the code easily.

Read off the first 5 chars from' alternate_name's and use a regular expression to match it against the postcode format. The regular expression is even given in the country_info data.
[Post New]26/01/2009 11:25:44
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terryh



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What is the data in the admin4 field?
That looks like postcodes too, but not the same numbers as in the alternate names field.
[Post New]26/01/2009 11:42:01
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sleidia



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After some research, the codes in admin4 are in fact INSEE codes.
The real postal codes that everyone use in their daily lives are stored in alternate_names.

For example, the postal code for Creteil is 94000 but admin4 is set to 94028 which is the INSEE code.

http://www.geneawiki.com/index.php/94028_-_Cr%C3%A9teil
http://www.lescommunes.com/commune-creteil-94028.en.html

[Post New]29/01/2009 05:46:10
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MichaelDBang



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Is there a way that I can get the postal code regular expression from a web service call?
 
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