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Elaboración de un mapa de códigos postales de España con recursos libres. Cómo evitar pagar a Correos 6.000 € por información de referencia

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  • Francisco José Goerlich Gisbert

    (Ivie (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas))

Abstract

A (vector) map of Spain’s Postal Codes can only be obtained if it is purchased from Spain’s National Postal Service (Correos) at an abusive price given the fact that it is reference information generated with public resources.This paper makes up for this lack of free resources, by means of the information on geocoded address-es published by Cartociudad, available at the Down-load Center of the National Center for Geographic information (CNIG).The paper describes the algorithm to elaborate the vector layer of Postal Codes, implemented in the free software, R. Additionally, it describes the availa-bility of information on Spain’s Postal Codes and reports some anomalies found in the base infor-mation used. Un mapa (vectorial) de Códigos Postales de España solo se puede conseguir si se le compra a Correos a un precio totalmente abusivo para tratarse de in-formación de referencia generada con recursos públicos.Este trabajo suple esta carencia a partir de recursos libres –gratuitos–, fundamentalmente información sobre direcciones geocodificadas publicadas por Cartociudad, y disponibles en el Centro de Descar-gas del Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG).El trabajo describe el algoritmo de elaboración de la capa vectorial de Códigos Postales, implementa-do en software libre, R. Como producto colateral se narra la disponibilidad de información sobre Códi-gos Postales en España y se reportan algunas ano-malías encontradas en la información de base utili-zadas.

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  • Francisco José Goerlich Gisbert, 2022. "Elaboración de un mapa de códigos postales de España con recursos libres. Cómo evitar pagar a Correos 6.000 € por información de referencia," Working Papers Ivie 2022-03, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
    • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpivie:2022-03
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    Keywords

    Códigos Postales; Sistemas de Información Geográ-fica (SIG); Direcciones geocodificadas; Bases de datos geográficas; Teselación de Voronoi. Postal Codes; Geographical Information Systems (GIS); Geocoded addresses; Geographical Data-bases; Voronoi Tesselation.;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General

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