[thelist] Calculating distnace between two zip codes.

Andy Baio andy at kickmedia.com
Tue Jan 30 18:39:32 CST 2001


Scott Dexter wrote:
> There's a service we used that provided us with a Zip code database that
> included the long/lat pairs. That was from Mailer's Software (800-800-MAIL,
> http://mailerssoftware.com/). 

	If you don't want to shell out $495 for a
	ZIP code/latitude/longitude database, you
	could download it for free here.  It's
	from 1990, but that should be fine for
	most people.

http://ftp.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.html

	Here are some detailed instructions on
	building such a tool with Perl/MySQL.

http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/dealer_locator.html

					-- Andy.




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