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jgv / area

Perform a variety of conversions between places and area codes or zip codes.
http://jonathanvingiano.com/area
MIT License
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How often is the zipcode data refreshed? #8

Closed mkirchstein closed 11 years ago

mkirchstein commented 11 years ago

I was just curious how often the source data is refreshed. I've read that the USPS updates zipcode mappings on a monthly basis, but I'd be happy a refresh just 3-4 times a year.

Also, would the gem's version get bumped if there were no code changes but new data loaded? If so, I think I'd opt to not fixing this gem's version in my Gemfile. A tad more transparency on this issue in the docs would be great.

Overall, though, thank you very much for such an easy to use gem!

jgv commented 11 years ago

Thanks Matt. I'd bump the minor version number if there was a change. I'd consider that a "catergory two change" per the RubyGems docs (http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/7).

The next change to this gem will be updating the data to be of a higher quality. Hopefully I'll be able to address this by the end of the month. If its of any interest, I'm considering modifying and using a version of the data found here http://federalgovernmentzipcodes.us/

How do you envision the docs changing? Making mention of my versioning strategy?

mkirchstein commented 11 years ago

Or even just a mention of when the source data was last updated in the readme would be great. Also, now that I know that the zip info is loaded from /data/zipcodes.csv file I can just look it's last commit date too.

Thanks again for a great gem.

jgv commented 11 years ago

Thank you!