So the ZCTA5 file <http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2013-2010-nation-u-s-2010-census-5-digit-zip-code-tabulation-> from the US Census seems to be not available, but I do have a TIGER shapefile containing the shapes of some cities. There aren't any zipcodes in the file, and it only seems to contain incorporated cities. Any suggestions?
Saikrishna Arcot On 01/14/2014 02:22 PM, Saikrishna Arcot wrote: > In this case, I'll work on matching up the addresses with the postal > city names. > Saikrishna Arcot > On 01/13/2014 01:28 PM, Richard Welty wrote: >> On 1/13/14 11:05 AM, Carl Anderson wrote: >>> Looking at the wiki for addresses >>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address), addr:city is intended to >>> hold the postal community and not the legal municipal name. >>> >>> 911 and 311 call centers struggle with this problem all the time in >>> that frequently, multiple locale names are in use and valid for a >>> location. The authoritativeness or correctness of a name has to be >>> judged in the context in which it is used. >>> >> this is a big can which contains many worms. >> >> as far as i know, when e911 was set up in NY, the enhanced 911 >> addresses were conformed to the postal addresses (and new postal >> addresses were assigned as the old RR system was retired.) >> >> so from my perspective, i favor conforming our addressing to the >> postal/e911 standard as i understand it. >> >> this is potentially very confusing. for example, the Schenectady post >> office (city of schenectady in the county of schenectady) delivers >> mail to a number of addresses in the town of colonie (in albany >> county NY.) first responders will come from the appropriate >> department in Albany County (unless something really bad is going >> on.) >> >> and for a given post office, they may accept mail for more than >> one community name, reflecting historical communities for which >> there is no legal standing but some cultural standing. for >> example, in my old neighborhood in Troy NY, mail could be >> addressed to me both for Troy and for Lansingburgh, even >> though the independent city of Lansingburgh ceased to exist >> about 100 years ago. >> >> richard >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Imports mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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