Calvin, getting back to your original comment, what exactly do you mean "use
ZIP codes"?  They are currently tagged with the key addr:postcode.  Are you
proposing an import or some other way to use the Census ZCTA data?  Brad

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) <
calvin.metc...@state.ma.us> wrote:

> census is bad for places that DON'T have people but especialy when you
> build your data set off the block layer the shapes will include all the
> addresses they need to but will miss some strange ones (like theme parks)
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> From: "Nathan Edgars II" <nerou...@gmail.com>
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> On 10/5/2011 9:15 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote:
> > In MA they are good in they are precise
> How have you tested this?
>
>  > don't know about the rest of the country but say wht you will about
> the census they tend to get the areas right in the sense of getting all
> the houses.
> In Florida, they omit 32830, which has been Walt Disney World's zip code
> since it opened in 1971.
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