[Developers] mapping Zip codes to other location info?

[Karell Ste-Marie]

What about adding the long/lat to the zip code?

I have all of this information for most of the US/CAN postal codes, nothing
would make me happier than to batch upload this information to the system.

There are many applications to this information.


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-----Original Message-----
From: developers-bounces at freebase.com
[mailto:developers-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jamie Taylor
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 1:12 PM
To: Rich Morin
Cc: developers at freebase.com
Subject: Re: [Developers] mapping Zip codes to other location info?

Rich -

Postal Code now has an included co-type of /location/location (a  
recent change!)

This gives you the contains/contained_by properties so you can make  
the association between Postal Codes and the cities/neighborhoods  
they are associated with.  The /location/location co-type also gives  
you the geolocation property so you can include the centroid for the  
Postal Code area (or ZCTA bounding region since US Postal Codes are  
carrier line routes.)

We have an open gardening task to co-type existing Postal Code  
instances and provide as many of the /location/location properties as  
we can get our hands on.  That said, please fill in the details you  
know, as I don't think our data will get us to the neighborhood  
level, which is where it gets really useful.

J

On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:47 AM, Rich Morin wrote:

> Although Freebase recognizes 94066 as a postal code, I
> don't see any relations that would link this to "San
> Bruno", Latitude: 37.63 / Longitude: -122.43, etc.  Am
> I simply looking in the wrong places?
>
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