Likewise, not everywhere in America has a postal zipcode, but the Census invented ones for their own purposes.
On Mar 9, 2018 16:13, "Kevin Kenny" <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops, sent an earlier attempt from the wrong place: > > TIGER:zip_left and zip_right were intended to be ZIP codes, because > they were there to help census workers find the houses who hadn't > returned census forms (which were sent out to postal addresses). > They were never entirely correct, though, and were based on an > incorrect mental model of "ZIP code as an area feature" rather than > "a set of discrete points where the truck delivers the mail". So > the whole idea was pretty screwy right from the start. (For instance, > my workplace has a unique five-digit ZIP code. When I started > here back in the day, it didn't have a building number, because > it was the only address in its ZIP code. Eventually the fire > brigade insisted that it have one, and it acquired a vanity > address: One Research Circle.) > > When I'm entering a building address, I fill in number and street, > city, state and ZIP code - the entire tuple. I see very little value > to tiger:zip at this point. > > If I'm moving down a street, entering address after address, JOSM > does handle things quite conveniently, with most of the fields > pre-filled. (I wish it had a custom increment value. A lot of the > streets in my community have building numbers that increment > by 4 instead of 1 or 2, so that there's a little room for expansion > if someone subdivides a building lot.) > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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