GeoJSON centroid for each postcode in Luxembourg

Published on July 11, 2016

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Guillaume Rischard

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Type: API
Topic: Others
ID: 578384b332cc222fb08879b8

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Creation date: July 11, 2016

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Description

Python program that downloads the latest addresses geojson using the data.public.lu API, and returns GeoJSON centroids for each postcode in Luxembourg.

A sample centroids.geojson.xz (from 2016-07-11) is included.

Downloads the latest addresses geojson
Average the position of all postcodes
Spit out geojson

Run like :

python3 postcode-centroid.py > centroids.geojson

There are 63 postcodes in Luxembourg that contain only one
address. Some of these are for residential addresses. You
might want to consider merging these points with the nearest
neighbour if you need to anonymise the output data of
your project.