Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/12/10 7:18 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Would it be possible to get the boundaries of the areas where a certain place name is accepted by the USPS in addresses? For example, any places not within the Orlando city limits have Orlando, FL addresses, and someone searching for said place is

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Carl Anderson
For an authoritative list of USPS valid combinations of community names and ZIP Codes look at the USPS City State product http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressinfo/citystate.htm Mixed with the ZCTA5 dataset from the US Census Bureau you can make an approximation of where names apply. The ZCTA5

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/12/10 8:55 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Richard Weltyrwe...@averillpark.net wrote: zip codes don't properly correspond to geographic areas, that they do is a common misconception. the USPS does not provide such maps. i have seen maps which claim to show

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Carl Anderson carl.ander...@vadose.org wrote: For an authoritative list of USPS valid combinations of community names and ZIP Codes look at the USPS City State product http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressinfo/citystate.htm Mixed with the ZCTA5 dataset from the US

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: i guess it's like any other admin boundary, it's subject to change. who is going to maintain it, or will it be allowed to slowly deteriorate and become obsolete? if the rate of change is low, maybe that's not an

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Lord-Castillo, Brett
Bluffs Crossing Drive Chesterfield, MO 63017 Office: 314-628-5400 Fax: 314-628-5508 Direct: 314-628-5407 -Original Message- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:18:57 -0500 From: Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com To: Talk Openstreetmap talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities

Re: [Talk-us] Boundaries of cities used in postal addresses?

2010-11-12 Thread Carl Anderson
As far as I can tell from the USPS point of view the name is an attribute of a ZIP Code. When you change ZIP Codes the list of valid names also changes. Form my experience the rate of change of valid names for a single ZIP Code is very low, less than 0.5% per year. On the other hand newly added