[Talk-us] [Imports] Zipcode Import

[Jeff Barlow]

Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>  wrote:

>A Zip Code is a routing code. It doesn't represent geography any more
>than you can do a 1:1 mapping of iP address to physical location.
>
>You can do a "Pretty good" job by simplifying the data, but zip codes
>are attributes of addresses, not regions.
>
>If you want to add these zip codes to objects with addr fields, that
>would be accurate, but you can't accurately represent a zip code as a
>region.

Huh... Well, if all that's true then how do you account for the
fact that many very good commercial printed maps, including the
wonderful Thomas Guides, have for many years included outlines of
Zip codes? 

Are we aiming for academic correctness or practical utility?

-- 
Later,
Jeff

-- 
Later,
Jeff