missing lat and lng also missing results for radius after using "zipcode_type=None"

MacHu-GWU / uszipcode-project

USA zipcode programmable database, includes up-to-date census and geometry information.

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missing lat and lng also missing results for radius after using "zipcode_type=None" #24

Closed vinnieyao closed 3 years ago

vinnieyao commented 5 years ago

I used "zipcode_type=None" in by _zipcode, but I am still missing lat and lng data, like 01655. I also used "zipcode_type=None" in by _coordinates, but I am still missing some zipcodes around the input zipcode. For example, 00715 should be the result of 00716 but it didn't.

Anyway, thank you for all of your work!

MacHu-GWU-Machine commented 5 years ago

@vinnieyao For non standard zipcode, currently I don't have the lat lng information ready. But I do see that information in my source website. I will update my crawler for more information about non-standard zipcode

jawinn commented 5 years ago

@MacHu-GWU What about running the Google Maps API or some other lookup to update entries that are missing latitude and longitude in the dataset? It makes it hard to use this package for a zipcode search that compares distances when so many are missing (several hundred).

Example of some that are missing: 29402 - Charleston, SC - PO Box only zip 94203 - Sacramento, CA - PO Box only zip

MacHu-GWU commented 3 years ago

@jawinn I ran a google map api for all the zipcode when I made the release, but I didn't run it everytime in new release. I do need some automation to build this database. But unfortunately, it is not available yet.