[Talk-us] importing zip codes

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Sat Feb 22 19:37:58 UTC 2014


On Monday, February 17, 2014, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
>
> be aware that these are not official, these are a census bureau
> construction.
>

There's also the problem that the Census has just made stuff up for areas
that are not covered by ZIP codes at all.  One instance that came up during
last autumn's storms in California among FurryMUCK's denizens was one of
the power companies announcing that they were aware of outages in ZIP codes
that don't exist, because the Census's version of ZIP codes include areas
that get no postal service whatsoever.


> additionally, since this would be an import, i recommend bringing it
> up with the US Imports committee. you don't have to go there, but
> you do have to get it checked off in the imports mailing list in any
> case.


I would strongly advise against importing ZIP codes as polygons.  This is
really more of point data for the Karlsruhe schema to be entered as
applicable.
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