From: Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com>
To: Ryan <pgsql-sql@seahat.com>
To: rudi@oasis.net.au
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Off topic : world database
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:55:21 +0000
Message-ID: <200303261655.21899.mike@nachbaur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10083.65.102.128.233.1048719399.squirrel@fordparts.com>
References: <3E824070.7070207@oasis.net.au>
<10083.65.102.128.233.1048719399.squirrel@fordparts.com>
On March 26, 2003 10:56 pm, Ryan wrote:
> Your best bet is buying a good zipcode database that has lat/long, but
> would only really help you in the USA. This kind of data tends not to be
> cheap...
Either that, or web scrape mapquest.com or some other site that provides
lat/long for returned results, but that probably violates the acceptable use
policy of those sites.
I for one would be very interested in such a web service (I'd really like a
address / street lookup to find lat/longs for addresses, but thats not likely
to happen).
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