midwire / free_zipcode_data

Free US and world-wide postal codes in SQLite and CSV format
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Deprecate the legacy *.csv files. #4

Closed midwire closed 1 week ago

midwire commented 6 years ago

We have to time this carefully and coordinate with my_zipcode_gem because it currently depends on these 3 files:

Once we get a stable solution in place here using the GeoNames data, we can update the my_zipcode_gem rake tasks to use that solution and remove these files.

midwire commented 6 years ago

Since my_zipcode_gem currently uses these .csv files which are being deprecated, we need to replace these .csv files with something else, there are 2 likely strategies:

  1. Generate the data files .sqlite3 and/or .csv at a given point in time, and check those into the repository here for importing into that gem. my_zipcode_gem will need some work to directly pull that data from this repository for importing there.
  2. Allow the my_zipcode_gem’s users to generate their own up-to-date data using the tools/rake tasks provided by this gem, and import the resulting data directly.