I agree that area codes are worthless for geographic data. Not exactly sure why we use them for determining territories, other than the the dataset must have phone numbers in it.
On Dec 12, 10:10 am, bratliff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 12, 3:45 pm,MapDaData<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Don't know if area codes are necessarily 'gerrymandered,' but for the > > purpose we're using them for, I find them quite meaningless. Much > > easier to use zip codes--abundant data and it's free!! > > Well, not in a political way but area codes have very little > correlation with geographic location. Zip codes are much more useful. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
