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I wonder what database they are using for the ZIP codes. I tried googling around a bit and only found a bunch of "pay X$ to get all US ZIP codes". I'm pretty su
by kriro 13y ago
I wonder what database they are using for the ZIP codes. I tried googling around a bit and only found a bunch of "pay X$ to get all US ZIP codes". I'm pretty sure I've found these before for an ERP project I worked for...maybe the CIA? database (I distinctly remember they had some pretty good stuff)
- GFischer 13y agoI thought there were plenty of those available freely. Are these good enough? : http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1 http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1 US Zip Codes File of all US 5-digit ZIP codes. Includes zip, city, state, latitude, longitude, and county (Last Updated: March 30th 2010): US Zip Codes (41,755) or http://sourceforge.net/projects/zips/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/zips/ Edit: MaxMind recommends this one http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ There's also Google's geocoding API. Still, let's hope the project owners answer you :)
- FootballMuse 13y agoNot exactly. "ZIP Codes are commercially sensitive... proprietary information"[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6685917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6685917
- frik 13y agoYou can download the database that is used to update Wikipedia (bots do that job): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georefere... 3.54 million entries in 273 languages with Cities, GPS coordinates, ZIP codes, and a lot of more - all free and up-to-date. It's a project of German Wikipedia, but the website is in English and the data is used by all Wikipedia instances.