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Fetch all Swedish zipcodes and metadata such as their closest city, county, municipality and geo-coordinates. The data is fetched from geonames.org which in turns fetch data from the swedish authorities.

Original data sources:

• scb Statistics Sweden http://www.scb.se/
• bebyggelseregistret Data Base of Built Heritage http://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se
• lantmateriet Swedish National Land Survey http://www.lantmateriet.se/ CCBY
• valmyndigheten Swedish Election Authority

Reference: http://www.geonames.org/countries/SE/kingdom-of-sweden.html

Usage

No dependencies required. To fetch all ~16000 zipcodes and associated metadata and write it to zipcodes.json:

npm run start

Example

Print zipcode 111 23 and its metadata

cat zipcodes.json | grep '111 23' -B 1 -A 6

Output:

  {
    "zipcode": "111 23",
    "city": "Stockholm",
    "county": "Stockholm",
    "municipality": "Stockholm",
    "lat": "59.3326",
    "lng": "18.0649"
  },