[OSM-talk] Too subjective & problematic Re: no-go-areas

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Tue Jan 14 00:39:36 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 6:34 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the USA a postal code is not actually an area, but a set of
> addresses. Often they are all in one area, but sometimes the area is
> not clearly defined. This is partially why postal codes are usually
> just added to the POI directly in the USA. Trying to make a sensible
> set of areas or boundaries will not work for all USPS postal codes.
>

For mailing addresses, yes.  For street addresses, maybe.  The Census does
have areas for their ZIP codes.  Whether a particular area uses Census or
Postal zips depends on whether or not they're served by the USPS directly
(and there's decent chunks that don't).  Edge case is super edge, though,
and the de-facto way of dealing with this is to just use the ZIP observed
on the address marker or ask someone who lives/works there what the ZIP is
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