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[Phil Duffy]

Jay,

In an earlier system we acquired a commercial Zip Code file, which allowed
us to do some cool things, but I had wanted to extend that for geographical
coordinates.  I am really excited about your find.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Jayesh Sheth
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:28 AM
To: talk at lists.nyphp.org
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Zip webservice 0.1

Hello all,

I thought this script would be of use to some of you. I just came across it.

 It is a script that provides a SOAP interface to a freely available 
list of 43191 zip codes + latitudes and longitudes by Civicspace Labs.

You can download the software here:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/zipwebservice/?branch_id=57410&release_id=1925
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You can download the zip code database here:
http://civicspacelabs.org/home/zipcodedb

You can  view a demo of it here:
http://www.cthorn.com/zipcodes/

This is so exciting for me ... there are so many uses for this. An 
entered zip code can be validated against a city name, or a city name 
can be automatically prefilled once a zip code is entered, and so on. 
Also - the associated latitudes and longitudes could be used to 
calculate things such as 'people in your area' etc.

Best regards,

- Jay Sheth
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