[OSM-talk] Nominatim & US places

[Richard Welty]

On 1/1/11 2:32 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> Yes, and that's something that definitely does *not* belong in OSM.
> If Nominatim wants to do this sort of lookup (and it probably should),
> the shapefiles can be downloaded here
> (http://www.census.gov/geo/ZCTA/zcta.html).
i opened up the local one and checked it out, and i don't think these
shapefiles (which date from the 2000 census) are accurate enough
in any case.

richard