Re: Re: Looking for good ZIP Code / Latitude / Longitude table
| From: | Michael Zornek | Date: | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:11:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Looking for good ZIP Code / Latitude / Longitude table | ||
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On 10/30/02 2:31 PM, Manuel Lemos said:
> On 10/30/2002 04:03 PM, Michael Zornek wrote:
>> I've written a nice php/mysql site that let's you search for hospitals and
>> community colleges by zip code. The search is built upon some math that
>> figures out distances by a zip's lat and lon cords.
>>
>> My problem is that my current ZIP table (bout 42,000 rows) seems to be
>> flawed. There are a ton of zip codes round california that have all the same
>> lat and lons. There are other dups as well. So I'm looking for some new
>> data.
>>
>> Does anyone know a good source for this type of info?
>
> This class may be used to figure the coordinates of a location given the
> IP address of a computer (the user computer):
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/netgeoclass
I can't really use that class. I'm looking for a table of zip codes, with
relating lat and lon cords. I already wrote the calculation code. That PHP
class is reliant on a web service which I'm not interested in.
Thanks anyways,
~ Mike
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