[thelist] U.S. Cities

Canfield, Joel JCanfield at PacAdvantage.org
Thu Aug 11 16:57:22 CDT 2005


Why not do what virtually all the big e-commerce sites do about cities:
trust the user to get it right? Most folks can spell the name of the
town they live in or the town they're doing business with. And,
especially if there's a reward for getting it right (they get business
or whatever) most folks are likely to dot their "T"s and cross their
"I"s.

I suspect that validating a volume of data as huge as 'all the cities in
the US' (however you define a city) is going to be a monumental task.

Although, if what you're looking for is a monumental task . . . 

joel


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