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April 18, 2006
Question

Finding Zip Codes

  • April 18, 2006
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I have a list of addresses that I need to find and insert the correct zip
code for. About 2000 addresses (and growing) from across the USA.

Anybody know a way to find zip codes using coldfusion code? or a tutorial
anywhere for that?

Thanks


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    dempster
    Inspiring
    April 19, 2006
    Yahoo! has a nice geocoding API. You can provide it with a street address, city/state, and get back zip code along with latitude and longitude for mapping.

    http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

    -Paul
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    Newsgroup_UserAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 19, 2006
    Thanks, but that's a dead end street. They're not going to have what I'm
    looking for.
    ... And if they did, it would cost $1000's. USPS is a government agency
    after all. They wouldn't offer anything that's easy, helpful, or
    inexpensive.

    Enough said.




    "jdeline" <jdeline@deline.com> wrote in message
    news:e2539i$5r1$1@forums.macromedia.com...
    > Go to http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp as a starting point. They
    > probably have a Web service that will do what you want.


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    Mr_Black
    Participating Frequently
    April 19, 2006
    >Thanks, but that's a dead end street. They're not going to have what I'm
    >looking for.
    >... And if they did, it would cost $1000's. USPS is a government agency
    >after all. They wouldn't offer anything that's easy, helpful, or
    >inexpensive.

    Those people actually own and set up ZIP codes (and postal addresses). Unless you want ZIP codes for some other purposes, it might be a good idea to use the origin of the data. All others just re-sell or re-distribute their data. 2000 addresses is nothing. We used USPS service to verify 50,000 addresses.
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    Anonymous
    April 19, 2006
    Go to http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp as a starting point. They probably have a Web service that will do what you want.
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    BSterner
    Inspiring
    April 19, 2006
    Google for zip codes web service.
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