A "How would you do this"-type of question. not Java-specific.

Imagine you are writing a program that will display a map of the United
States. Your program will ask a user to input their ZIP code. Once
they do, a dot will appear on the map to indicate where that ZIP code
is located.

My question is, how would you go about doing something like this?
Would you have a file of all ZIP codes and their longitude, latitude
coords and extrapolate those to x,y coords on your graphic map? Or, is
there an easier way?

Not really a Java question, just something that I was thinking about
today and I have no idea what mechanism anyone would use to accomplish
it.

Right now, I'm thinking the easiest way is using the file set-up I
mentioned above. Does anyone else have a different mechansim that
would be better?

Thanks,

Korto

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