Here's a piece of information that will send a chill down the spine of anyone who's ever designed a database schema: Our new house that we just moved into... has two zip codes!
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My apartment is physically in one zip code, but the front door faces a street with a different zip code which is what you have to address mail to. This screws up many online forms.
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I too am very curious what specifically gets screwed up. Is GPS suggesting the right address but the wrong zip code or something?
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Replying to @laughinghan @simonw
If I type my address into web forms that autocomplete, they turn the address into a GPS coord, then find the zipcode of that point, which gives the wrong result. the apartment is physically in the "wrong" zipcode compared to the front door facing the "right" zipcode

Mar 31, 2021 · 1:33 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @simonw
Ugh that sucks! And an app probably doesn’t even have a practical way to fix that. That needs to be fixed at the geocoding database level