From ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org Fri Dec 16 03:17:16 2005 Received: from kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.24]) by blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id jBFIHGZk030959; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:16 +0900 Received: from funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.201]) by kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4ACB5A16; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:20 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost.nagaokaut.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D837AF0484A; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:20 +0900 (JST) Received: from voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.1.100]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B2DF04847; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:19 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [210.163.138.100]) by voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A345F630031; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:19 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EB633D8A; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:18 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3744D33DFA for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:08 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20384-04 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:08 +0900 (JST) Received: from web80313.mail.yahoo.com (web80313.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.79.29]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A53833DF6 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:07 +0900 (JST) Received: (qmail 20503 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Dec 2005 18:17:02 -0000 Received: from [207.72.2.52] by web80313.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:17:01 PST Delivered-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:17:08 +0900 Posted: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:17:01 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Diebolt Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: US Zipcode API for Ruby? To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) Message-Id: <20051215181701.20497.qmail@web80313.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <237f7cfb0512150952x5b4035e3m840d7dec87ee04c4@mail.gmail.com> X-ML-Name: ruby-talk X-Mail-Count: 93 X-MLServer: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)]; post only (only members can post) X-ML-Info: If you have a question, send e-mail with the body "help" (without quotes) to the address ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org; help= X-Original-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=G3pn3xPHrMkyd8qdtX0h5L+QvgEd5Zi1NSqIi0rzLY8rl2q31jz6Ez/38XM+lM0Ly/CNjvPVddQXP0v+vQjVZeE7LYVPY1A6m6JfOeeuwGiavlVVNAQ4moPnaFO2FvXlBqJBLucc7ITRio9O7AfZaIqvFumsaKBKtll9PYmnGYA= ; X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on beryllium.ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.3 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00,BLARS00, CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT,HTML_40_50,HTML_MESSAGE,MULTIPART_ALTERNATIVE, RCVDFRMLOCALIP,RCVD_IN_BLARS,RCVD_IN_BLARS_SPAM_WEB, RCVD_IN_BLARS_SPSPRT,TOOLONGSTR autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-446491664-1134670621=:19265" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Lines: 26 List-Id: ruby-talk.ruby-lang.org List-Software: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)] List-Post: List-Owner: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 --0-446491664-1134670621=:19265 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CivicSpaceLabs have that zip code file of about 40,000 zips. Commercial packages and the USPS sell zip code programs and database that are over twice that large. I believe the CivicSpaceLabs zip code database comes out of the US Census Bureau. The 4GuysFromRolla article previously given gave a url to the Gazetterr which is broken - I think this is the correct url: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.txt http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.zip Maybe will will see a geo-tagging based ruby quiz in the future ... --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping --0-446491664-1134670621=:19265--