Re: Zip codes and Electoral districts

Posted by Daniel Haran on Feb 09, 2007; 3:59am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Zip-codes-and-Electoral-districts-tp865p877.html

Maybe there's an algorithm to minimize the number of points you'd have to check?

On 2/8/07, Stéphane Zagar <[hidden email]> wrote:

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>  I know but I'm not a magician :)
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>  I don't see any way to get that.
>  My question is to know whether it's useful to be that precise. Maybe my
> view is biaised because I take my examples in Montreal, but a 6 digit postal
> code is a very small polygon. If I just want to match a postal code (a
> point) within a district (an area), it should be possible. No ? Is it an
> ugly way to do it ?
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>  Steph
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>  Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>  the lat long you get is a point, while the 6 digit postal code is a
> polygon! So for the data to be useful you also need the coordinates of
> intersecting lines.
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> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
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>  Stéphane Zagar wrote:
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