{"id":2747,"date":"2013-06-15T18:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T23:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2013-06-15T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T23:14:48","slug":"malaysian-postcode-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/15\/malaysian-postcode-database","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian postcode database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about simplifying e-commerce checkouts in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>At bare minimum you need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Email address<\/li>\n<li>Phone<\/li>\n<li>Street address<\/li>\n<li>Postcode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>State can be derived from Postcode. Country can be set as default, with the option to change it to something else (so a pull-down).<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiapostcode.com\/\">MalaysiaPostcode<\/a> as a useful database. It looks like scraped data from POS Malaysia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pos.com.my\/pos\/appl\/location-finder.asp\">Location Finder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Malaysian%20postcode%20database&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F06%2F15%2Fmalaysian-postcode-database&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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At bare minimum you need: Name Email address Phone Street address Postcode State can be derived from Postcode. Country can be set as default, with the option to change it to something else (so a pull-down). I found MalaysiaPostcode as a useful database. 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