[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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