[thelist] U.S. Cities

Luther, Ron Ron.Luther at hp.com
Fri Aug 12 08:55:11 CDT 2005


David Kaufman offered:


>>Here's a trivial example that uses AJAX and a CSV file of about 
>>43,000 U.S. zipcodes to fill out the associated city and state 
>>as soon as they enter the zipcode!
>>http://www.aprogrammersjournal.com/article.aspx?id=65

>>Pretty clever, those Ajaxians, eh?


Hi Dave,


Clever indeed!  That _is_ pretty neat!

But zipcodes can often include portions of multiple cities. 
Assigning the entire zip codes to a single city might 'clean' the 
input data pretty nicely and consistently ... but it will cost 
you a bit in accuracy, and may tick off a few users as well.


RonL.


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