What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order?

January 7, 2007 8:15 PM

The US ZIPScribble map.
posted by Kwantsar (11 comments total)

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posted by Kwantsar at 8:22 PM on January 7, 2007

Neat!
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 8:38 PM on January 7, 2007

What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order?

How about bike said path? And mail, like, a cancelled postcard from each post office to prove it?

Probably been done.
posted by hal9k at 8:43 PM on January 7, 2007

The lower 48 (via ZS) vs. Big Cluck (via Saul Steinberg)

You be the judge!
posted by rob511 at 8:43 PM on January 7, 2007

Interesting. Then I got derailed into the utah cum morman debate and lost interest
posted by subaruwrx at 9:32 PM on January 7, 2007

Very cool - I'd love to see a version with more organic (less jaggy, less digital) lines, a truly scribbled map (but still preserving the data and intent).
posted by OverlappingElvis at 10:28 PM on January 7, 2007

It's very cool as a visualization, but I was lost on why he was so coy about the state lines. It's very obviously part of the Zone Improvement Plan's organizing principle.
posted by dhartung at 3:59 AM on January 8, 2007

So what do the boundaries within states represent? They don't appear to be county lines — there's too few of them — although they may be the lines between groups of counties. Anyone know?
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:18 AM on January 8, 2007

Those are between three-digit zipcode groups, or clumps of them. Twin Cities, Minnesota has a clump for 550-551-553-554.
posted by gimonca at 5:29 AM on January 8, 2007

What can I do with this?
posted by poppo at 7:22 AM on January 8, 2007

Wow, does nobody live in northeastern Nevada?
posted by etoile at 10:26 AM on January 11, 2007