Re:Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis (2019)
by killjoywashere on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:37PM
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Same! My wife ran a business from home during the pandemic and we actually went through the effort to work with Google Maps (they called us) to get it on the map. And of course USPS has no problem. But our address was originally a federal building with a letter, still only has a letter, no number, and there are now all sorts of work-arounds floating around on how resolve addresses in our neighborhood. What's wild is the Post Office is literally down the street from our house, and our house predates the founding of most of the big delivery services, which all manage to deliver to us, given their preferred incantation. If I can't get the shipper to pass the right incantation to their shipping service, shenanigans ensue. My (least?) favorite was an item that went across the Pacific Ocean 3 times over the course of 3 months.
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Re:Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis (2019)
by jonathanoliver on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:38PM
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I just replied to an earlier message on this thread with the same offer:
Iād love to have you email your mailing address to [email protected] with a link to this HN thread. We may be able to help fix some of this.