[Script] WME US Government Boundaries

[jm6087]

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).

I know there was/is a Wiki discussion regarding Alt City Names. Not sure if it has ever become official via Wiki or not.

The basic discussion, as I recall, is to add Alt City Name for segments that are not within the city limits to allow for better routing to addresses.

[jm6087]

Thanks, I never saw the Wiki

[jm6087]

Doesn't seem to be working today for me. Just checking to see if anyone else is having trouble as well or if it is just me....

There has been reports in Discord Scripts Server that the script is currently not working

[JoshJMM]

I have wanted something like this for a long time. It's a PITA trying to find the "Alt" name for roads in the middle of nowhere.

[juliansean]

Loving the time zones! Thank you.

Sean

[juliansean]

That's a pretty neat addition there. Would the "other cities" be an opportunity (if the region allows) to add an alt city in case someone searches for an address with that city? Or is it just good to know? In Texas we have a few pseudo cities where everyone calls the town one thing, but the post office uses another name. We've been adding the primary or alt city depending and I believe what you're giving us will now back up what locals already know. Is that the idea?

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Sean

[kodi75]

the Gov't source layers are still operational
https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/PUMA_TAD_TAZ_UGA_ZCTA/MapServer/4/ and the script is working for me

[LennyNRPD]

Thanks for this very useful script!!!!

[MapOMatic]

WME US Government Boundaries
Plots US boundaries (federal / state / local) as a layer on the map.
(not compatible with Firefox / Greasemonkey)

Currently supports:

• ZIP codes

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/25631 ... boundaries

Version 0.3.3
Displays the ZIP code located at the center point of the map view in the black header bar. Click the ZIP code there to open the USPS's "ZIP code to city" conversion web page.

Planned Features

• Add polygon preferences (color, fill, line thickness, opacity, etc)
• Display "default" city name along with ZIP code in header bar
• Add other boundary types (only if requested by users, so please comment here if you want to see more boundary types added).

[MapOMatic]

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.

mapomatic.000webhostapp.com

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.