From lmor461@ECY.WA.GOV Fri Mar 14 16:45:08 2003 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h2F0j7CK063268 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:45:07 -0800 Received: from ecy-hqbmsg03.ecy.wa.gov (ecy-hqbmsg03.ecy.wa.gov [165.151.25.251]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h2F0j67W021992 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:45:07 -0800 Received: by ecy-hqbmsg03.ecy.wa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:44:24 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Morgan, Laurie" To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: zip to county conversions Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:44:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: text/plain X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report="EXCHANGE_SERVER, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, __HAS_X_MAILER" Well, one way would be to address match the addresses to get a point cover of the locations, and then overlay the county gis cover to add the county field to the location point cover in ArcView or ArcGis...don't know if there is a simpler way. Good luck, Laurie -----Original Message----- From: Orians, Carlyn E [mailto:orians@BATTELLE.ORG] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:39 PM To: 'waphgis@u.washington.edu' Subject: RE: zip to county conversions Hi, A colleague of mine has a need to identify which county a given address is located in. What he has to work with is standard mailing address data, including zip code. Has anybody discovered a useful way to convert these to county locations? Any words of advice would be welcome. Thanks, Carlyn Orians Senior Health Research Scientist Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation 4500 Sand Point Way NE, Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98105-3949 phone:(206)528-3320 fax: (206)528-3550 orians@battelle.org .