How to get a city from a Canadian postcode?

Question

Do you have any experience getting a City from a Canadian postcode?

Is there a free web service for retrieving a city name by passing in a Canadian zip code, or can regular expression be useful?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the Google Maps API for this .

Answer 2

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address='.$Zip.'@&sensor=true

use this API. You can get the city name from the zip code.

Answer 3

http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1

Answer 4

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If this is not for a mission-critical business application, there are some cheap places to get data in Canada. Just make sure you know what you get and how clean they are.

Answer 5

Canadian authorities sell their data at http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/business/productsservices/atoz/postalcodeproducts.jsf