I found another dataset that might qualify better for Locations in Brazil. It’s the “Cadastro Nacional de Endereços para Fins Estatísticos” (National Addresses Registry for Statistical Purposes), released by IBGE. It is open and free of charge, and has all the addresses in Brazil, which IBGE does use in order to conduct the national census. It has neither ZIP codes nor geolocation, but otherwise I think it would qualify better than the Correios one.
Links:
- Explanation about the registry
- Links to downloads of TXT files (fixed width delimited tables), separated by state
- A map with a visualization of statistics of this database
- License, considered to be open (public domain), the same as the other datasets offered by IBGE
Ease of use is not great, as the fixed width tables require more labour to work with than, say, CSV. Also, it is not available in bulk, at least not that I could find. But being free, in contrast with the Correios one, is a huge advantage.
Considering that, we might want to replace the dataset considered in the GODI survey.