Finding Zip Codes

[Newsgroup_User]

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

[BSterner]

Google for zip codes web service.

[Guest]

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.

[Newsgroup_User]

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.

[Mr_Black]

>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.

[dempster]

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