Postal Code Lookup Service

The Postal Code Lookup Service finds geographic regions based on Canadian postal codes.

This gazetteer uses the “Forward Sorting Area” (FSA: the first three characters) of Canadian postal codes for input. It then returns the latitude-longitude coordinates of the central postal station of the forward sorting area.

To implement the Postal Code Lookup Service in your application, you will need to consider the following elements:

1. The output format is XML/GML with place name, latitude-longitude point location.
   
   
2. The output encoding is OGC GML 3.0.0.
   
   
3. To view a sample interface click Postal Code Lookup Service sample interface.
   
   
4. To learn about its capabilities, click Postal Code Lookup Service capabilities.
   
   
5. The base URL is http://geoservices.cgdi.ca/cgi-bin/postalcode/postalcode.cgi?
   
   
6. For an example of the results of a Postal Code Lookup service, click Postal Code Lookup results.
   
   
7. To download a table of parameter specifications for the Postal Code Lookup Service, click Postal Code Lookup Parameters.
   
   
8. For more further documentation, click More Postal Code Lookup information.