Just a note - I wouldn't assume "most PO Box Holders" live within
walking distance. Some may be very rural and not have local mail
delivery, or just choose not to use their public street address for
mail. Also, some clubs/businesses use a PO box if they don't want mail
delivered to the primary building (someone not always there, or the
owner doesn't trust the employees there :)
In my experience, PO Box holders can be anywhere. That doesn't make
your job any easier, but I would think it may make trying to geocode a
PO Box not really worth it, since it may be very wrong.
Andrew
On 4/29/06, Bryce Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm working on a project to map home addresses, for a pedestrian/walking
purpose. This works great until I run into a Post Office box. My
choices are to give up, punt to the zip code centroid, or guess. And my
guess is that most PO Box holders live close to the Post Office
(possibly even within walking distance).
So: how can I get a list of post office addresses? It's getting a bit
tedious to enter them all by hand:
my %po_box_locations = (
"94702" => "2900 Sacramento St, Berkeley, CA 94702",
"94703" => "3175 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703",
"94704" => "2070 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704",
"94705" => "2705 Webster St, Berkeley, CA 94705",
"94709" => "1521 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709",
"94608" => "1585 62nd St, Emeryville, CA 94608",
"94609" => "4900 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609",
);
I've searched on the USPS site and called them, but come up dry. Any
idea where I can find such a database,
short of a screen scrape of the USPS site?
-Bryce Nesbitt
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