buddyeorl/zipcode-city-distance-api

Airport Zip Codes Missing

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maverick915 commented

Airport Zip Codes don't show up. Examples I've found are:
20041
30320
60666
30320
75261
55111
21240
20229
55605
96913
15231

Is there any way to get an updated list of zip codes?

buddyeorl commented

I haven't had time to update this package, but will take a look at it this weekend or so, if you need an updated list, here is the US Census site including a list of files with updated data. https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/relationship-files.html, alternatively you could PR any updates and I'll gladly accept them.

maverick915 commented

It looks like the ZCTA's that are used by the US census are slightly different than actual Zip Codes and only include locations where people live (which makes sense since why would they do a census of Airports where people don't actually have a residence).

So other places like Airports won't be included in the ZCTA data. I did find another datasource at http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ which has data focused more on actual zip codes. Of course it's in a different format and would require more changes.