Re: US ZIP CODE
| From: | Hans H. Anderson | Date: | Sun, 10 Sep 2000 05:55:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: US ZIP CODE | ||
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I think there is something in the PX code exchange. Look for the link
from the PHP Links page. I grabbed it and adapted for a client. I think
I still have my version somewhere. Let me know if you can't find the PX
version, and I'll scrounge for mine.
Hans
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Ben Weinberger
wrote:
> Hi~
> Does anyone know how to use this zip code data to determine the closest
> vendors to your location? I.E... if someone typed in their zip, it would
> query their lat/long and tell them the closest locations of a particular
> store to where they are located.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ben
>
> At 10:56 AM 9/7/2000 -0400, Thomas Deliduka wrote:
> >Free one:
> >
> >US Census Bureau.
> >http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/
> >
> >This is, however, 1990 Survey information. They say 2000 survey information
> >should be coming out fairly soon.
> >
> >This includes Lat and Long information and population at the time.
> >
> >Here's the download file:
> >ftp://ftp.census.gov/pub/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.zip
> >
> >The lat/long values are in degrees and must be converted to radians before
> >calculations can be made.
>
>
>
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