[thesite] evolt map

Judith Taylor judi at frognet.net
Tue Jul 17 14:33:26 CDT 2001


Here's a wierd idea....check with some of the online astrology sites. They 
have something in place that allows people to find their lat & long simply 
by putting in the town and state or country of their birth. You might be 
able to find something like that somewhere.....

Just a thought

~judi

Bruce Heerssen put into words:

> From a Flash standpoint, this wouldn't be too hard. The hard part is 
> getting the data in usable format, like longitude and latitude 
> coordinates. Does anyone know of a way to find the lat&lon of any 
> location in the world given a valid postal address? A cgi, or better yet, 
> an online service would be ideal.
>
>Once that is known, it shouldn't be too hard to pass that info to flash.
>
>-Bruce

Judith Taylor
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