Just keep in mind that some ZIPs cover multiple cities. The one I'm standing in now is found in parts of at least 3 different cities that I know of. Others cover both (parts of) cities and unincorporated areas outside of the city whose name they are associated with.
-Nathan On November 9, 2014 11:00:42 AM EST, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: >actually, it wouldn't be terribly hard for me to knock together a >simple web page for looking up/entering zip code to city mappings, >so i think i'll look into doing that. anyone who wants to save up >shopping/credit card receipts so that they can enter the data should >feel encouraged to do so. it may not happen right away because i'm >pretty busy with other admin boundary stuff, but i'll try to have it >in a week or two. > >if i include existing OSM zip->city mappings, it would need to be ODbL. >some geocoder projects insist on public domain data (will CC0 do for >these geocoders?) this is a detail that would need to be worked out. > >richard > >-- >rwe...@averillpark.net > Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting > OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux > Java - Web Applications - Search > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
