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For example, Haskell County in Kansas is missing from the reference file, here: https://github.com/jgoodall/us-maps/blob/master/reference/zips-by_county.json

Although I see we have Haskell County is in the county-codes reference file here: https://github.com/jgoodall/us-maps/blob/master/reference/county-codes.json The FIPS code for Haskell County is 20081.

Perhaps our zip-by_county.json file needs to be updated? I'm not sure how that file was generated or where it was downloaded from, which could be helpful in updating/correcting that file.

I found this dataset and attempted to load it into an elastic search instance for doing some testing of elastic search map functionality. When I attempted to import the geojson/state.geo.json file, there were a few features that failed to load due to sequential points being identical. It looks like whatever library elastic search is using does not allow for sequential points being identical.

I was able to find the identical sequential points using a regex replace in vscode:

(\[\s-?\d+\.\d+,\s-?\d+\.\d+\s\])(,\s\1)

where the replace box contains "$1"

I see that this dataset has not been touched for a while, but I thought that I should post this issue in case someone else runs into a similar problem.

It appears that some zip codes are missing. For example, in the "zip code to FIPS file" here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jgoodall/us-maps/master/reference/zip-codes.json, I am unable to find these zip codes:

36130
40621
04333

There are many more zip codes that are not included either. This leads me to believe that the file is actually a mapping of "zip code tabulated areas" (ZCTA's), not zip codes. Therefore, I think it would be reasonable to include a mapping of zip codes to ZCTA's. Here is a source that can map ZCTA's to their corresponding zip codes:

http://udsmapper.org/zcta-crosswalk.cfm

Maybe we should include that mapping file in this repo as well?

For doing this conversion work, not everyone is a shape file master :-)

I'd love to reuse some of your data, but you don't have a license on any of it, or if this is government work product, a statement that it's in the public domain. (Some of the work I'm doing will be used by a state government agency, so it's particularly important that the information be cleared for re-use.) Would you mind applying a license? Thank you!

I found a link to the updated geojson data: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2020/ZCTA5/. If you go up a level you can find even more recent than 2020. Can somebody update this repo with more up to date zips?