I agree with you, Rich. Naturally our Post Codes (equivalent to Zip) are used by us for posting mail and maps will find places from them, but for use in a gazeteer of locations, which after all is what the location list is, it is pretty useless. Although it will identify a place down to a few houses when used in a city, the geographic area can be quite large in rural areas. Even worse the first part of the code, which specifies the post office area, can even cover more than one county. For example the prefix "SK" is Stockport, Cheshire, but it covers quite a bit of the High Peak District of Derbyshire.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: > I would not put a zip code in the address at all. The zip code (5 > digits)is not organized that way. Many large cities have fifty to > sixty zip codes. The number actually ties into the post office. The > nine digit numbers are normally each building set/part. The way they > work is each set of numbers (first three) refer to an area that tries > to be kind of square, with from 20 to 70 towns/villages. Tne first > number xxx00 goes to the biggest city in the 'shape' then from xxx10 > to xxx99 the other places are numbered in alphabetical order. If > needed, other parts of the city might get xxx01 to xxx09. For > instance, in Chicago, 60600 is the downtown post office, 60601 to > 60650 were assigned to the 1-50th wards at that time. When the wards > changed the zip codes didn't. That was how it was set up originally. > In other countries the system may be more sensible/organized, but I > wouldn't use it for those purposes. > If you want to, attach it to the city (Chicago 60625) which is a > neighborhood (or 2). > Rich in LA CA > > --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Toni Sano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Toni Sano <[email protected]> >> Subject: [LegacyUG] locations -usa >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3:58 PM >> For more recent events a zip >> code/post code is often provided. I am >> wondering where to put this. At first I was going to >> put it in the location >> field after state and before country ( I am doing some work >> on USA data at >> the moment). But then the reverse location list does not >> sort accurately. >> Thanks, >> Toni Sano, Dundas, Ontario >> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
