From rhoskins@home.com Mon Jun 21 10:48:42 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA28856 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:48:41 -0700 Received: from ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.06) with ESMTP id KAA11085 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:48:40 -0700 Received: from c501552a ([24.5.121.123]) by ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA14801 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:48:01 -0700 Message-ID: <00c001bebc0e$3173f6c0$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: Subject: Fw: ZIP CODES Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:47:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 5:49 AM Subject: ZIP CODES Although I am spending part of my summer AS an ER physician in a developing country, I have managed (with difficulty) to establish a tenuous link with the outside world. I may be slow to receive stuff (and even slower to respond) but I'm still here. Could you have someone update my listserve subscription from the tscnet ISP to the above address through Aug 13? I'v followed the discussion thread on ZIP codes with interest. It's really an interesting problem and one that I have played around with for some time. A bigger problem is the issue of precise global positioning data that will be needed for future GIS applications. Here are some sites I'v visited - each provides a bit more insight into this problem (some are technical but the biggest insights are in psychology, including both the arrogance and the stupidity of some proprietary organizations.) http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html http://emory.com/progress/pzd.htm http://www.usps.gov/cgi-bin/zip4/ctystzip http://www.zipcodedatabases.net/ http://www.quickthinking.com/qtsqzip.html http://www.usps.com/ncsc http://www.zip/data.com/ http://www.plu.edu/~libr/references/zip.html http://link-usa.com/zipcode/ I agree that we need to forget ZIPs but we must replace them with something. The GIS community may need to take a look at pioneering some work in this area - might be a good paper to present at a meeting sometime - what do you think? An interesting recreational subject in the world of mapping is the interesting concept of mapping time itself. This is a topic that is relativey unexplored by public health GISers (at least as far as I can tell.) A couple of really fun sites in this area follow. I believe these potentially have both importance and relevance to public health GIS. http://www.activeearth.com/onlinetour/ http://www.timepalette.com/timepalette.html Still looking forward to returning to WA and getting together for some fun conversations on these and other ideas. Tom .