[Talk-us] Announcement: Address Improvement project

[Carl Anderson]

Census faces are areas.


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/2011 10:08 PM, Carl Anderson wrote:
>>
>> Although there is only 1 edge on the TIGER 2010 edges dataset having
>> zipl = '32830' or zipr = '32830'  (TLID = 94368893)
>> there are 539 faces in the TIGER 2010 faces dataset having ZCTA5CE10 =
>> '32830' or ZCTA5CE00 = '32830'
>
> Are these based on roads or areas? To be sure about which zip code a
> property near the line is in, you would need an area. (Yes, I know the
> method of assigning zip codes doesn't make areas easy to generate, but the
> same seems true for segments of roads.)
>
>
> As for 32830 specifically, it may have been added since the 2002 files you
> linked here:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-November/004800.html
>



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Carl Anderson, GISP

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