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May want to verify how you're parsing the data set, am finding several ZIP codes which are close, but not quite. For example 12590 is drawn accurately (as I re
by epc 16y ago
May want to verify how you're parsing the data set, am finding several ZIP codes which are close, but not quite. For example 12590 is drawn accurately (as I recall, haven't lived there in a decade), but when I enter 12603 I get the same map for 12590, when 12603 should be farther north as it's poughkeepsie. I tried this in two separate browsers so it wasn't a caching thing unless you're caching by client IP.
Another example: 11202 shouldn't have a map at all, it's reserved for the central PO in Brooklyn (Cadman Plaza GPO), instead it's being drawn as a region in North Brooklyn.
Another example from outside Brooklyn: 60515 (Downers Grove, IL) looks accurate, but 60516 (southern Downers Grove) appears to be drawn using the 60517 (Woodridge, IL) boundaries, and when I punch in 60517 it gets drawn using the boundaries for 60561 (Darien, IL).
I haven't played with GIS data for several years but remember than there was a set of ZIP code data sets around 2005 which had accurate latitude/longitude points but the ZIP codes were frequently off by one (I ended up having to manually massage the data because I couldn't find a pattern to the way the ZIP code was appearing in the data).