[Talk-us] importing zip codes
Mike Thompson
miketho16 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 19:19:02 UTC 2014
Charles,
Thanks for starting the dialog and being willing to work on a project like
this.
Those are not exactly the same as postal zip codes, they are specific for
census purposes, so the community may want to keep that in mind.
Mike
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:11 PM, <osm at charles.derkarl.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a shape file from census.gov which contains the boundaries for all
> zip
> codes in the US. This data should not need licensing in that it comes from
> the
> us federal census.
>
> I would also like the community to answer this technical question: Each
> boundary obviously shares a border with another zip code. Should those
> shared
> boundaries have the same way, and then each zip code becomes a relation?
>
> Failing any negative replies, I will cook up an implementation and provide
> some .osm files for review before importing.
>
> Charles
> Boulder Creek, CA, USA
>
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