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Free evaluation sample of the Canada Postal Code Boundaries dataset: one complete FSA (V6X, Richmond, BC) — 677 postal-code polygons — in all five production formats.
Identical schema, geometry, and packaging to the full national product, so you can test loading, schema fit, and rendering before subscribing. The full product covers all 1,643 FSAs and 881,030 postal codes.
Overview
Try before you subscribe. This free sample is one complete Forward Sortation Area — V6X (Richmond, British Columbia) — extracted directly from the validated national Canada Postal Code Boundaries dataset. Nothing is simplified or altered: the geometry, attributes, field names, coordinate systems, and packaging are exactly what you get in the full product, so a successful load here means a successful load at national scale.
V6X is a useful test case. It mixes dense residential blocks where a postal code covers a single building, commercial corridors along No. 3 Road, and industrial and agricultural land toward the Fraser River, so you'll see cells ranging from a few hundred square metres to over a square kilometre. Every polygon carries its evidence counts, letting you try the same quality filters you would use in production.
What's in the sample
- 678 features for FSA V6X: 677 addressable POSTAL_CODE polygons plus 1 UNASSIGNED_NO_POINT_COMPONENT feature preserving a disconnected portion of the official FSA boundary
- Derived from 6,476 geocoded address points (6,278 used, 198 rejected as spatial outliers); FSA-level confidence-weighted fit of 80%
- 100% valid, single-part polygons; zero gaps and zero overlaps against the Statistics Canada 2021 V6X boundary
- Full attribute schema: POSTALCODE, FSA, FEATURE_TYPE, POINTS_IN, POINTS_USED, CLUSTER_OUT, POINTS_OUT, CONF_W_IN, CONF_W_FIT, PARTS
Five formats, one FSA
- FlatGeobuf — V6X.fgb, EPSG:3347, spatially indexed
- GeoParquet — V6X.parquet, EPSG:3347, WKB geometry
- ESRI Shapefile — V6X.shp + sidecars, EPSG:3347 (10-character field names; mapping file included)
- GeoJSON — V6X.geojson, EPSG:4326, RFC 7946
- CSV + WKT — V6X.csv.gz with WKT geometry and WGS84 centroid columns
Plus README.md, SHAPEFILE_FIELD_MAPPING.csv, and a MANIFEST.csv with SHA-256 checksums for every file. Total download under 2 MB.
What the full product adds
The national dataset covers all 1,643 Statistics Canada 2021 FSAs — 881,030 postal-code polygons and 1,057,110 total features — in the same five formats, packaged as national and per-FSA bundles, with the complete documentation set (data dictionary, format guide, load examples for GDAL / GeoPandas / DuckDB / PostGIS / MySQL, per-FSA index, and validation report). Monthly revisions.
See the sample area: V6X3P3 .
Published by Geolytica Inc., operator of geocoder.ca (Canadian geocoding since 2005) and geocode.xyz.
Highlights
- One complete FSA — V6X, Richmond BC — with 677 postal-code polygons, extracted unchanged from the validated national dataset. Same schema, same geometry, same packaging as the full product, so what loads here loads at scale.
- All five production formats in one 2 MB download: FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV+WKT. Test your GIS, warehouse, or database pipeline against real data before subscribing.
- Every polygon ships with its evidence — address points used, outliers rejected, confidence-weighted containment — so you can prototype quality filters on the sample exactly as you would on the national product's 1,643 FSAs.
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This listing has one pricing option, offered at no charge. It provides a free sample of Canada postal code boundary data for the V6X area in Richmond, BC. There are no tiers, usage add-ons, or scaling levels to choose from. You get the single sample dataset without a commitment or metered usage. The unit is a flat, free download rather than per-call or per-record billing.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
You get postal code boundary data for the V6X area in Richmond, British Columbia. This is a single sample covering one postal region, not the full country. It lets you evaluate the data format and quality before deciding on broader coverage.
No. This is a flat, no-charge download rather than metered billing. Your cost stays at zero regardless of how many times you access or use the sample. There are no per-call, per-record, or per-user charges tied to this listing.
The seller provides geospatial output in several formats, including GeoJSON, CSV, XML, and JSON. You can also export map views as vector graphics or raster images. This lets you load the boundary data into common mapping and analysis tools.
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You will receive access to the following data sets.
Data set name | Type | Historical revisions | Future revisions | Sensitive information | Data dictionaries | Data samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canadian Postal Code Polygons Sample TrialV3S | All historical revisions | All future revisions | Not included | Not included | ||
Canadian Postal Code Polygons Sample TrialM4G | All historical revisions | All future revisions | Not included | Not included | ||
Sample Canadian Postal Code Polygon File | All historical revisions | All future revisions | Not included | Not included |
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