Use Zip/Postal code to organize distribution & routes
I’ve been witness for the second time how people like to be creative on the wrong way. Instead of inventing a new fragmentation, why don’t use existing one? What I have on my mind is to copy country post office route organization. It’s very simple, since all what we need is available to everyone. You do not need anything else but ZIP/Postal code of the cities!
If you take a look at the codes itself you can noticed some coding rules was applied. It is not like for every new office post assign next availabladee number (autoincrement). At least in Serbia and I believe in other countries is the same since distribution of letters and packages existed long before computers and SQL databases. If you take a look at postal code structure it looks more or less similar to
11000 Belgrade
11070 New Belgrade (5km from Belgrade)
19000 Zajecar (250km from Belgrade)
19210 Bor (30km from Zajecar)
18000 Nish (260km from Belgrade)
…
It become quite obvious that first 2 digits can be used to group geographically closest location/cities. It can be possible to create geographical zones to organize distribution in country in relatively simple and error proof way.
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