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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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zip code 80023 not in database #9

Open AdnanTheExcellent opened 11 years ago

AdnanTheExcellent commented 11 years ago

Hello,

First of all, thanks for writing this gem. I launched this gem on my website last night and found an issue with the database. I have a customer who's zip code is 80023 and was getting errors on my site saying that her zip code didn't exist. I looked through the zipcode database in this gem and noticed that 80023 wasn't there. This is concerning because I don't know if this is a fluke or if there are a lot of valid zip codes that don't exist in the database csv.

Any chance you can update the list of known zip codes to a more recent one?

Adnan

jgv commented 11 years ago

The quality of the data is this gem's biggest weakness at the moment. While it isn't necessarily bad, its also not great. I will hopefully have updated to a new dataset by the end of the month.

AdnanTheExcellent commented 11 years ago

Just had another issue with the database. The zip code 38016 returns memphis, TN instead of Cordova, TN. UPS does not like this and returns nil for certain API calls :-/

AdnanTheExcellent commented 11 years ago

I forked this gem and updated the database. however, my database doesnt have GMT offset (I dont use it anyway), so I didnt make a pull request. If anyone wants to use my fork (that doesnt work with GMT offsets) its https://github.com/AdnanTheExcellent/area

ghost commented 11 years ago

@jgv, any luck with the new data set?

adrianwantsa commented 11 years ago

Area code update would be nice too. 236 BC, 657 CA are missing, likely more.

dogweather commented 11 years ago

I want to help update the raw data. But it's important to track the updates and their sources. Anyone else in favor of this? I'm guessing that the current raw data is from the 2007 tiger/line?

levity commented 11 years ago

Zip code 94158 in CA is also missing.

apolzon commented 11 years ago

10065 -- NY is missing.

skylar commented 10 years ago

@jgv thanks for creating this. I'd love to help update the zip code database. it looks like these are only added once a year on July 1 by the postal service. any tips where you derived the initial list of codes?

tastycode commented 10 years ago

Possibly this? http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_zcta.html

billr578 commented 10 years ago

I just found this:

http://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/zip-code-database/

It looks like a bunch of zip codes I've found missing plus the ones above are listed here. The data appears to still be a little old - the newest from the USPS as of 2011.

obi4589 commented 9 years ago

zip code 10075 (NYC) is also missing.. can we expect this gem to be updated?

bradpurchase commented 8 years ago

39819 (GA) also missing.