On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jeff Barlow <j...@wb6csv.net> wrote: > > Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > > > >>No. Zip codes do not represent geographic regions. They should not be > in a > >>the map data, but in a separate database. > > > > Please explain your reasoning. This claim seems quite > > counterintuitive to me. > > A Zip Code is a routing code. It doesn't represent geography any more > than you can do a 1:1 mapping of iP address to physical location. > > You can do a "Pretty good" job by simplifying the data, but zip codes > are attributes of addresses, not regions. > > If you want to add these zip codes to objects with addr fields, that > would be accurate, but you can't accurately represent a zip code as a > region. > > - Serge > > I don't understand why you wouldn't want ZIP Codes in OSM. Do they not represent a geographic area in some parts of the country? In my area, each ZIP Code represents a specific geographic area. One can easily figure out what town someone is from based on their ZIP Code. Is this not the case everywhere? -Jeremy
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