Re: [Evolution-hackers] Dynamically fetching city, state info from zip codes

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

If you read closely that isn't actually the normal 'zip code' table, it
is modified for census tabulation boundaries, and nor is it complete.
The actual zip code database from usps is a subscription based service,
and not free.

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 19:28 -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:29 -0600, Caleb Groom wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:18, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > You should probably check that the information isn't already freely
> > > available somewhere else.
> > > 
> > > At any rate, I'm pretty sure there are freely-usable SOAP services on
> > > the web that evo could use.
> > 
> > I have checked.  Try a quick google and you will find pages and pages of
> > commercial companies selling the same thing.  I'd love to find free/Free
> > access to this information.  Since I don't seem to be able to I thought
> > I'd try to rally the troops. :)
> > 
> > Re: SOAP, this data is rather static, I was thinking the gathered data
> > could be hard coded like the country listings in Evolution.
> 
> It's curious that there's such a variety of people selling this
> information, when the "horse's mouth" is free :o)
> 
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html
> 
> HTH,
>   Shaun
> 
> 
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