In the USA, postal-code (Zip code) boundaries don't necessarily correspond to other administrative boundaries, and are frequently adjusted by the Post Office to balance out the load on different local post offices. Also, real-estate developers sometimes get the Post Office to shift a Zip-code boundary so that a particular street or neighborhood will be in a more-prestigious Zip code.
-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:17:45 To: Frederik Ramm<frede...@remote.org> Cc: OSM<talk@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Post code areas On 1 April 2010 21:13, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 April 2010 20:54, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: >> Hm. I'm somewhat reluctant to tag a post code boundary an "administrative" >> boundary. Our postal service is on its way to being a private enterprise >> now. > > It was like that before I came along, I don't know how much this was > discussed before hand, I've just been adding missing postcodes etc. Forgot to mention that postcode boundaries share ways with suburb and even state boundaries so it can be useful in that respect... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
