Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Postal Code Extract

2013-08-30 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/30/13 6:12 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: You may want to double-check with the Post Office, to find out whether there is the possibility that there may legitimately be outliers in some cases. I don't think the US Post Office guarantees that zip codes will always define a single polygon with

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Postal Code Extract

2013-08-30 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Eric Fischer e...@pobox.com wrote: Or if you just want the US zip code polygons and don't care if you get them from OSM or somewhere else, you could just download the shapefile of Census Zip Code Tabulation Areas from

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Postal Code Extract

2013-08-30 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote: You may want to double-check with the Post Office, to find out whether there is the possibility that there may legitimately be outliers in some cases. I don't think the US Post Office guarantees that zip codes will

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: Postal Code Extract

2013-08-30 Thread Carl Anderson
If you are looking for the correct ZIP code by address you should acquire the USPS ZIP4 product https://ribbs.usps.gov/addressing/documents/tech_guides/pubs/AIS.PDF The Census ZCTA5 data is pretty good to help determine the predominant ZIP code in areas. It misses singleton addresses but you can