Re: Zip Codes, Long/Lat and LAMP?

From: btilly@xxxxxxxxx (Ben Tilly)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:47:13 -0800

On 2/26/06, Scott Webster Wood <treii28@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK, I think I asked something along these lines before, but I am actually
starting to code so I wanted to revise the question(s) a bit. I am looking for
a good way to keep an up-to-date database (or perhaps use an XML-RPC/SOAP based
service) to translate back-and-forth between information such as
city/state/county, zip-code, and longitude/latitude.

[...]

I am going to strongly recommend that you NOT do this yourself.
Instead enter into a business relationship with someone who already
does this, like mapquest, google, etc. They should not only maintain
the up to date data, but they have web APIs, and should have examples
of calling them in a variety of languages.

Cheers,
Ben
.

References:
- A common perl script for different database platforms
  - From: Hetal Soni
- Zip Codes, Long/Lat and LAMP?
  - From: Scott Webster Wood

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