[Developers] mapping Zip codes to other location info?

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Karell Ste-Marie (karell.stemarie at gmail.com):
> What about adding the long/lat to the zip code?

It's unfortunate that there isn't any way to model a polygon
in Freebase, because a geographic boundary for the zip code region makes a
lot more sense than a single lat/long[1].  Especially since all the
physical objects in the zip code have their own lat/long which probably
doesn't correspond to whatever lat/long you assign to the zip code?


[1] And can I just say for the record that whoever decided that
Geolocation should have the longitude first and that the latitude and
longitude should be separated by a dash should be taken out and shot?
First of all, I know of no single application in the geographic world that
puts the longitude first.  Second of all, since there is a whole
hemisphere where the second number is negative, so separating the numbers
by a dash is visually confusing.

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