Why doesn't Saipan zip code 96950 show up in Azure maps?

Brandy Lapthorne 0 Reputation points
2024-11-21T21:37:36.58+00:00

Why doesn't Saipan zip code 96950 show up in Azure maps? When entering the name of the island or physical address zip code, it produces no results.

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  1. rbrundritt 18,791 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-11-22T18:31:56.5433333+00:00

    I'm able to find this in Azure Maps, as well as it's boundary polygon. If you search just for "96950" the "Saipan" (Northern Mariana Islands) location isn't the first result. Zip codes on their own are not unique and many of the same ones are used in different countries (for example; 90210, one of the most well-known US zip codes due to the same names 90's TV show, is also a zip code in Poland). By the looks of it, there are at least 3 countries/regions that use the zip code "96950".

    Here are a couple of samples you can test this out on:

    If I search for "Saipan", both the v1 Search service and the newer geocoding service in Azure Maps find it as the first result. I'm not finding any boundaries that match, but that's not unexpected as boundary data of certain entity types, like cities, is not well defined everywhere.

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