Postcode map
A postcode map is a special thematic map whose primary content is the representation of the spatial distribution of postcodes in one or more countries. The individual postcodes are shown as postcode areas. Supplementary topographical content - such as streets or place names - are only used for orientation and are therefore depicted in restrained colors.
construction
Depending on the level of detail in the system, the map shows postcode areas as geographically coherent areas. The subject of the illustration is in particular the geographical-hierarchical structure of the postcodes, which is coded in individual digits or pairs of digits: All postcode systems worldwide are characterized by the fact that the first one, two or three digits describe a geographically coarser, supra-regional division. The exact classification remains different from country to country (or from postal organization to postal organization).
Use and commitment
Postal code maps have gained great importance beyond postal organizations. In the form of “organization wall maps” or in geographic information systems (GIS), they form the basis for geographical planning for companies, organizations and associations, for example for field service, franchise or delivery areas and geomarketing .
Exceptions and special cases
In almost every postcode system there are a number of special cases in which a postcode or a whole series cannot be assigned to an area, for example in the case of company or post office box postcodes. These are either not shown in postcode cards at all, as a point (for example at the post office) or within the range of numbers in which Swiss Post hands over its mail items to major customers.
Publishers
There are a few cartographic publishers who are known for their self-made postcode maps:
- Kastanea
- RITZ maps
- Schuh Verlag
Austria
The postal traffic map Austria was issued in paper form by Freytag & Berndt in several new editions until around 1988 and was also available at some main post offices in large cities. It was typically available as a blackboard in sales or delivery offices of many companies, as delivery areas and routes were often based on it.
Postal code zones (different pastel colors, less than 90, as a subset of the natural numbers from 10 to 99, with around 15 to 19 not occurring) and postal routing routes (generally three-digit numbers) were defined on them. Each postcode of every post office (about 4609 for Thalheim near Wels , irrelevant for addressing, since postcode 4600 ( Wels ) was also used here for delivery ) was displayed locally. Also special ones like those from UNO-City in Vienna, Schwechat Airport and those of the then major mail order company Quelle in Linz, Hafenstrasse. Detailed maps of the nine provincial capitals and zone 23 south of Vienna (and its 23rd district) are shown on a larger scale.
On the paper format 84 × 121.5 cm (landscape) (approximately DIN A0 ) Austria is shown on a scale of 1: 500,000 and next to it ten urban areas on various larger scales.
Postal routes by rail are shown in red - including the Böckstein-Mallnitz Tauern tunnel , those via road (bus, truck) in green. The curiosity of the only postal rate by ship that still existed at the time of publication is marked in blue: From Hallstatt train station on the east bank over Lake Hallstatt to the city on the left steep bank opposite. In general, the map theme showed bodies of water, railways (through which a lot of postal traffic ran back then), streets and places.
About a dozen postal routes in and / or through foreign countries are marked. For example to Passau (D); from Ehrwald via Garmisch-Partenkirchen (D) to Seefeld, from Lienz-Sillian via South Tyrol (I) to Brenner; from Mattersburg (red: by train) via Sopron (H) to Deutschkreutz; "Deutsches Eck" from Salzburg city (green: via road) via Bayrisch Gmain (D) and Steinpass to Lofer.
From the 1990s onwards, postal traffic was increasingly handled by trucks and new letter distribution centers also resulted in new zones served by these. However, the previous postcodes were retained.
Postal code areas are also used to plan travel routes for travel agents and delivery services.
Postal code postage stamp
A mini version of a postcode map showing only the nine key areas appeared on January 14, 1966 on the special postage stamp “POSTLEITZAHLEN!” With an exceptionally large circulation of 30 million for the introduction of postcodes on January 1, 1966 in Austria. Thematically, it does not show federal state borders (but the border of Vienna), but the waters, mountains (through hilltop), the provincial capitals (Vienna, Graz and Linz as areas, the smaller ones as Ringerl) and further the other important cities of Lienz, Villach, St Pölten and Wiener Neustadt. Red like the brand title, the map shows as the only text content "1 ..." to "6 ..." from Vienna north of the main Alpine ridge westwards to Tyrol / Vorarlberg and "7 ..." to "9 ..." south of the ridge from Burgenland southwest to Carinthia with East Tyrol. This roughly indicates the location of the routing areas, in particular “2” for (essentially :) Lower Austria's part north of the Danube and “3” for the southern part, and through the three ellipses that postcodes have four digits.
See also
Web links
- Postcode map in Open Street Map by user: Wambacher
- Current postcode map data of Germany for download , based on Open Street Map data, from search-postcodes.org
- Detailed postcode map of Germany at postcodesindex.de
- Postcode map of Switzerland , layer "Official list of localities with postcode and perimeter" at map.geo.admin.ch
- Postcodes with geospatial data in XML, CSV, JSON format github.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kastanea. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ RITZ maps. Retrieved October 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Stiefel Verlag - Postcode Maps. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
- ^ Austria postcode map 1: 500 000, detailed view , Bacher Verlag, bacher.de, accessed on August 14, 2018.
- ↑ Note. The Atterseeschifffahrt (from 1869, most recently by Stern & Hafferl) handled postal traffic along the lake until the end of 1964. This is no longer recorded on the map.
- ↑ Development of an instrument for estimating transport costs when delivering to small customers - Shown using the example of Gourmet Menu Service GmbH & Co KG, August 2003, diploma thesis by Klaus Priller, successfully submitted to an Austrian university on September 27, 2002, ISBN 978- 3-8324-6848-4 , accessed August 14, 2018; P. 24 shows a postcode area map of Austria with "Source: Schwarzer 2002". ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ↑ Special postage stamp: introduction of postcodes , austria-forum.org, September 16, 2009, updated January 28, 2014 by Ziegler Katharina, accessed on August 14, 2018.
- ↑ Stamp catalog: Briefmarke ‹Introduction Postcode , colnect.com, 2003–2015, accessed on August 14, 2018.