<html><head></head><body>You may want to double-check with the Post Office, to find out whether there is the possibility that there may legitimately be outliers in some cases. I don't think the US Post Office guarantees that zip codes will always define a single polygon with no outliers.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Eric Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enf@pobox.com" target="_blank">enf@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Or if you just want the US zip code polygons and don't care if you get them from OSM or somewhere else, you could just download the shapefile of Census Zip Code Tabulation Areas from <a href="http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/ZCTA5/" target="_blank">http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/ZCTA5/</a></div>
</blockquote></div><br /><br />It's the OSM data I'm after. I'd like to do a test to make sure that there are no outliers. I would expect that I should be able to construct a polygon from zip codes. If not, then there it might mean an import problem. I'm going to try Mike's suggestion of increasing the timeout. I did increase it, but not as much as suggested.<br />
<br clear="all" /><div><br /></div>-- <br /><div>Clifford</div><div><br /></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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