Zip code database out of date
fersman4 - September 12, 2007 - 23:50
| Project: | Location |
| Version: | 5.x-2.7 |
| Component: | Data update |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
| Issue tags: | location Master Issues |
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Description
The US zip code database included with the latest version is from March 2006. Please look in to updating this database.
#1
Changing component to Data update.
#2
marked #159945: US zip code map as a duplicate. [edit: i corrected a typo in the issue number, previewing this time]
#3
marked #174946: Canadian MapQuest links do not support postal codes as duplicate
#4
marked
#158833: Geocoding for France. Please:)
as duplicate
I marked #40614: Implementing Support For Ireland - Updating location.ie.inc as a duplicate, but it was for 4.x so I closed it too.
This one looks like it is to be part of a batch of data updates, but is not a duplicate:
#31191: Better Support for Austria (AT)
I marked these as need more information
#21529: UK regions not showing
#154467: We want to provude zip codes for Ukraine
#5
related: I marked them as needing more information
#230421: FIPS codes in location.us.inc
#73714: Support for the Netherlands (NL) has a good overview of services and concerns that need to be addressed, might be relevant to more than just netherlands.
#245641: Zip codes for Denmark has more discussion about attribution of the source of the data, this time about Denmark.
#158101: UK Geocoding with google and search has an old patch for UK.
this is not about zip data updates, but is related. #214244: Some country have many location for 1 postcode
#132541: refactor google geocoding brings up geocoding
and #66887: Better geocoding support talks about it in general
related:
#128606: Malaysia is not supported
#6
this might be related #42901: Zipcodes are not necessarily unique WITHIN a country
#7
marked #242765: update US zipcodes database as a duplicate of this issue. (It had a comment http://drupal.org/node/242765#comment-1256637 about adding US zip code 92011).
#8
related to #383200: Zipcodes for Austria
#9
related #386058: Support for Finnish postal codes location.fi.inc (has location.fi.inc file and database dump)
#10
marked #399150: UK County list is not complete (Berkshire missing) as a duplicate
#11
related #255995: Canadian postal codes for MySQL zipcodes table
#12
related: #326665: UK cities are in state/province field (not a zip code issue, deals with counties and cities in the right fields)
#13
-The state for zip code 10004 is incorrect, it should be NY.
-Also, in order to facilitate proximity searches by City & State, rather than by zip code, additional fields or data should be added to catalog the latitude and longitude of centroids of City,ST combinations and centroids of States only. Perhaps an additional column should indicate whether the record is for a Zip Code, a City/State a State, or a Country.