Wow. Bizarre, but good to know. Yes, I _always_ have thought that
zipcodes partition land areas.
Now I have to wonder if ZCTAs are still around and if they are mapped. I
expect not.
much thanx - ray
On 6/24/20 2:39 PM, Spencer Alves wrote:
Zip Codes are Not Areas
http://www.georeference.org/doc/zip_codes_are_not_areas.htm
Specifically for Zip codes, the best you could do is query for addr:postcode.
On Jun 24, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Ray Kiddy <r...@ganymede.org> wrote:
Hello -
I am interested in where people in the US lack internet connectivity and I keep
thinking that I should be able to use OSM for some part of this.
I am recalling (perhaps not accurately) that connectivity information is
published by the FCC and I think that at least some of the information is per
zipcode.
This led me into a bit of a rat hole as I sought to find out if there are
relations for zipcodes in the US. Does anyone know? I know that TIGER data
defines lines that bound zipcodes. But can one craft a query that maps just the
edges of a zipcode area? Are there then relations defined for those edges?
I can keep thematic data on my own database but, so far, I do it by linking
directly to a relation or way. If it had to be a set of relations, that would
be unfortunate, but possible. But I am not seeing how to make the queries.
Any ideas?
cheers - ray
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