Custom Area Maps

Create your custom delivery area, service area or sales territory map link from ZIP Codes*:

Note: If you include a map screenshot from this tool on your website, please include a small source attribution link pointing to this page.

* The above tool supports either 5-digit ZIP Codes OR 3-digit ZIP Codes, which are often used in defining sales territories

Use the easy form above to create your own custom map using ZIP Codes, or if you want to build the map link the hard way, keep reading…

To zoom to one or multiple ZIP Codes, and optionally show their boundary (e.g. for a service territory, sales territory or delivery area), create a link such as this:

https://www.randymajors.org/customgmap?zips=10023,10024,10025,10026&title=My+Service+Territory

TIP: copy/paste the link above and customize to suit your needs

The parameters you can use to build your custom link are:

• zips – expects a comma-separated list of one or multiple 5-digit U.S. ZIP Code(s) (do not use spaces between the commas), for example: ?zips=10023,10024
• loc – show customer/user location by using the word true, as in: &loc=true
• counties – optionally shows county lines by using the word show, as in: &counties=show
• cities – optionally shows U.S. city limits by using the word show, as in: &cities=show
• title – optionally give your map a title (use the + character to represent spaces), for example: &title=My+Sales+Territory
• color – optionally choose the color used for the Map Title and the ZIP boundary, expects a 6-character hex color code without the leading # character, for example, &color=00FF00 would create a green map title and ZIP boundary (free tools are widely available on the internet to find your hex color)
• zipcodes – optionally shows ZIP Code boundaries within your custom area by using the word show, as in: &zipcodes=show
• labels – optionally shows ZIP Code labels within your custom area by using the word show, as in: &labels=show
• showoutside – optionally overrides the zipcodes and labels parameters to also show them outside of your custom area by using the word show, as in: &showoutside=show
• zipboundary – optionally HIDE the merged overall boundary by using the word hide, as in: &zipboundary=hide

A few important things to make this work:

1. You must use the question mark ( ? ) right after , as shown above and below
2. Do NOT use spaces anywhere in the URL or query parameters
3. You must separate query parameters using the ampersand ( & ), as shown above and below
4. User the + character to represent spaces in the title parameter
5. If you use loc=true the map will center on the customer/user’s location; leave this parameter out if you always want the map centered on your overall ZIP Code boundary

TIP: For simplicity, you can drop the https://www from the front and just create the link as:

• randymajors.org/customgmap?zips=64701
• randymajors.org/customgmap?zips=10023,10024,10025,10026&title=My+Service+Territory
• randymajors.org/customgmap?zips=29588&cities=show&labels=show&title=ZIP+Code+29588

With this functionality, you can feel free to create links on your own website that open a window to the Custom Area Maps tool, zoomed into your area of interest and showing a ZIP Code based sales territory, service territory or delivery area!

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COVERAGE NOTES:

• US coverage includes Counties in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa
  “Also show US city limits” draws all incorporated cities and towns in the United States and its territories and possessions
• Within the UK, England displays Counties and Unitary Authorities, Scotland displays Council Areas, Wales displays Principal Areas, and Northern Ireland displays Districts. Explanation of Unitary Authorities, Council Areas, Principal Areas and Districts.
• Australia displays Local Government Areas (LGAs)
• New Zealand displays Territorial Authorities
• Canada displays Census Divisions, which are Counties in some provinces but may include other geographies
• Mexico displays Municipalities, which are the next level administrative divisions below State
• Switzerland displays Districts

OTHER NOTES:

• The Search places box uses a standard Google Maps geocoding engine, therefore you can type street addresses, road names, points of interest, and GPS coordinates (see * above) to see what county that location is part of
• Many of the map layers from which this information is extracted are very large, so it may take several seconds for all of the map layers to finish drawing
• Because the map layers are large, boundaries will not be shown if you are zoomed out too far
• Note that typing an address will zoom in the map very close, whereas typing a city or county by itself will show you a map with a wider view
• Disclaimer: While the number of decimals in the latitude and longitude displayed for the map marker imply a positional accuracy of within a few feet, note that Google Maps is not inherently that accurate, and therefore this tool should not be used for legal purposes or anything beyond entertainment value.

SOURCES:
– US: Census Bureau
– UK: Open Government License – Contains Office of National Statistics data, Ordnance Survey data ©Crown copyright and database right 2017. Open Data Lincese – Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
– Ireland: Open Data and Creative Commons License – Ordnance Survey Ireland
– Australia: Incorporates Administrative Boundaries ©PSMA Australia Limited licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
– New Zealand: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 – Stats NZ
– Canada: Open License – Boundary Files, 2016 Census; Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 92-160-X
– Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)
– Switzerland: Swiss Federal Office of Topography

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