Re: RFC Postal Routing Package

Hi, Did you check this very long discussion we had recently on pear-dev? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&w=2&r=1&s=UPS&q=b It's a few links there on other postal products. Indeed, the discussion stopped at once, I don't know what's going on now. Does somebody have some news about it ? -- bertrand Gugger (toggg) Daniel Khan wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently implementing a postal package routing system for > Germany and Austria. > > Background: > The "Deutsche Post" and the "Oesterreichische Post" along with most > postal companies are using barcodes to route packets. > The numeric codes for those barcodes are pulled together from rather > big databases (.de has ~ 1.500 000 rows total) > > I use SQLite as DBMS as it exactly fits for this purpose. > My package would handle the import of the data provided by the postal > companies using shell scripts. > It will provide methods to pull the data out of sqlite. > It will try to do some extended lookup methods inlcuding phonetic > search to also process typos and/or different writings. > In the end it will spit out the information needed to create a barcode > (e.g. using FPDF). > > It will use a factory pattern to allow other maintainers to implement > routing classes for other countries. > Other countries and postal companies may follow. > > So ... I have to do this job for .at and .de anyways. > If there is a general interest I will add some abstraction stuff to > make it PEAR'able. > > BTW: The routing databases are property of the postal companies. AFAIK > the are freely available to it's customers. > > I really don't know if this fits into PEAR and it's no problem for me > if it doesn't. > > Comments anyone? > > Greetings >