On 8/11/05, Dena Marchant <dmarchand at verizon.net> wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions on how to ensure that cities entered > into a database through a web form will be: > > 1. spelled correctly > 2. valid > 3. not duplicates > > I'm wondering if there is a service that can take a string that is the name of > a city and tell you whether it is valid? > > These will only be cities in the United States. Like Sebastopol, Moscow / Idaho, Berlin or Amsterdam? :-) You can check ZIP Codes, but I doubt that there is a Thesaurus for city names. -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/