[thelist] U.S. Cities

[Anthony]

I personally would ask for zip code, and then lookup
the city/state for the user, with a confirmation
screen:

http://www.usps.com/webtools/address.htm

Option #3.





--- 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dena
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Anthony
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