Query NDC Bad Postal Code

We cross-check the postal codes we collect as part of Postal code collection against a list of known-good postal codes.

Template:CFE Data Integrity Checks Steps

Comparison

Main office weekly data check. data vetting process.

Comparisons are done as part of vetting via NDC query NDC_Bad_Postal_Code in CFE. Steps will be: <we need to fill these in when we have completed the first-time updates, we deferred decision on the steps today to when we have done partial cleaning and know how much is left.>

• booked to do with Pagasa on Monday. Ttenbergen 16:50, 2014 October 2 (CDT)>
  • Pagasa, I think we never followed up on this. Are those checks being done regularly? Where in vetting process do they fit? Ttenbergen 16:06, 2016 July 25 (CDT)

RHA lists

updating the codes

Codes are stored in Table Postal Code Master. Codes can be manually added to or imported into this table when a new master set becomes available.

File Locations

old master imports can be found at X:\CCMDB\z_archive\PostalCode

Where was it obtained

• From Randy Martens to Julie Mojica

integrated with

• http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1

Wikipedia Postal codes listings across Canada

Wikipedia, Postal codes in Canada

• at the top of the article shows the the first letter that a postal code starts with for a province.

Map showing first letter used in postal codes across Canada

Start Date

2014-09-29