[Talk-us] Oahu, Hawaii CDP boundaries

[stevea]

I agree; this sounds correct.  I've lived in the USA for several decades (my entire life), though I do travel.

Country, state, county, city (in the USA) rather neatly map onto admin_level= 2, 4, 6 and 8 (respectively).  There are wider-area exceptions (like township=7) and in some places things like villages, wards or neighborhoods with real elected councils (sometimes 7, sometimes 8, sometimes 9 and/or 10) and various other "we do things like THIS" in particular states, but ZIP codes, as described are for routing mail (and by some companies, other deliveries), not for political administration (admin_level).

SteveA

> On Sep 6, 2019, at 11:59 PM, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ZIP Codes (US Postal Service codes) are not administrative boundaries.
> They are widely used for addressing, for routing and for deliveries by
> private companies in addition to the USPS, but they are not used for
> any official administrative purposes, at least not in the States where
> I have lived.
> 
> On 9/7/19, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 6 Sep 2019, 22:10 by steveaOSM at softworkers.com:
>> 
>>> I slightly disagree with Mateusz that we "reflect local postal"
>>> boundaries, as we don't do that in the USA with ZIP codes:  they are
>>> routing algorithms, not actual areas definable by a (multi)polygon.
>>> 
>> Note that I was asking whatever it is
>> actually administrative boundary
>> (Postal codes are not forming
>> administrative boundaries in Poland,
>> not sure is it different in USA)