Django Postal Codes

A simple data model for storing postal codes with placenames and location.

Installing

You can clone the repository and install from source:

python setup.py install

or use pip to install from PyPI:

pip install django-postalcodes

Note

Version 0.2+ requires a GIS backend (e.g. PostGIS). Migrating from 0.1 will not be straightforward if you have existing data decimal data or do not have a GIS backend.

If you are using South you must use South >= 1.0 to ensure compatability with the new south_migrations migrations module name.

Getting data

Postal code data is available from a number of sources. There is a built in management command to now update global postcodes from the following OpenData resource(http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/).

To install postcode data download the zip file from the above link and run the following command