Postleitzahlen

This repository contains the shapes of german postcode areas (Postleitzahlengebiete) in compressed geojson and topojson format.

Data

• GeoJSON, Brotli Compressed (30.22MB)
• TopoJSON, Brotli Compressed (20.75MB)

Source

Extracted from OpenStreetMap via Overpass

Overpass Query:

[out:json];
area[wikidata="Q183"]->.searchArea;
(
	relation["type"="boundary"]["boundary"="postal_code"](area.searchArea);
);
out body geom;

Importer

Included in this repository is the import script used to generate the data files: sh bin/import.sh

Alternatives

• Postleitzahlen-Scraper - A program that downloads non-free postcode geometries from the german postal service.