If ZIP Codes are enabled, it displays the ZIP Code and USPS “recommended city” for the center point of the map view (displayed in the black header bar at the top of the map). Click the ZIP Code there to open the USPS’s “ZIP Code to city” conversion web page.
IMPORTANT NOTE: ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTA) are only approximate representations of USPS Zip Codes. Actual USPS ZIP Codes can be a single point or a single street. See this article for more information: Zip Code Tabulation Areas
Can someone elaborate a little on the application of alt city names, or point me towards associated documentation? The only place I’ve seen them used so far, for the most part, is for border streets that have HNs in different cities on each side (or one in city, one not).
From the “Done!” link in one of Pesach’s latest posts in that thread, it looks like it made it to the US Wiki but somehow didn’t get included in Wazeopedia.
But based on some past and recent search result URs that were like pulling teeth to figure out, this is a welcome development - both the guidance and this script.
Hi all,
I’ve gotten a couple reports of antivirus apps blocking the following site (used in this script), and at least one person even being flagged at work for suspicious network activity.
I set this up on a free web hosting service so we could use a USPS service to lookup city names from the zip code. It couldn’t be done directly from each person’s PC, so this site acts as the middle man, receiving a zip code from us, looking it up at USPS, and returning the city name.
Apparently (unknown to me at the time) the domain 000webhostapp.com has been reported as suspicious by some antivirus services and is either completely blocked, or treated as a potential threat. I believe my site is not a threat, but that these services are being cautious because of the domain name itself.
In response, I’ve removed the section of code that performs the zip -> city name lookup in v0.4.5. I’ll look for a more reputable free web hosting service so we can get it going again.
I apologize if this has caused trouble for anyone else.
The USPS zip code city function has been restored in v0.4.6. You should see USPS city name next to the zip code in the black header bar again.
Thanks to XanderB for hosting the zip -> city lookup script on his site, and thanks to others for offering to do the same. Hopefully this time it won’t get flagged as a suspicious site by antivirus services.
Adds a settings tab (USGB) where you can toggle dynamic positioning of labels (attempts to keep the labels centered on the visible portion of each boundary).
This script has stopped working for me again. I have disabled all scripts except this one, deleted and reinstalled it (2018.08.18.001), disabled and re-enabled all of its options, bypassing the corporate network, and yet it is still not functioning and the error console is blank except for a recaptcha timeout.
