As part of our redevelopment of the retirement village real-estate website villages.com.au we have sourced the coordinates of all 16K+ postcode locations in Australia. As a small exercise (and to test if the coordinates are realistic), I’ve created a quick and dirty map of Australia based on those coordinates. It’s interesting to notice how densely populated the east coast and south-east coast of Australia are as opposed to Western Australia.

The next steps will be the implementation of an ajax-driven metaphone place-name search and the sourcing the actual driving distances between places, so as to get the most accurate location finder possible.