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- From: arlin@metronet.com (Arlin Collins)
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- Subject: Re: Zipcode example program?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 20:26:43 GMT
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- Edwin Walker (ewalker@tezcat.com) wrote:
- : This is kinda of easy if you have the right data. If you have access to the US
- : POSTAL database. They give you the longitude/latitude for every zip code then
- : it is very easy to compute the distance, if you have access to the TIGER/+4
- : database, also available from the US Postal service, you could compute the
- : distances from Plus+4 zips.
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- : The following company has zipzip a program that you could use to determine
- : distances between Zip codes, not Zip plus for. You have to do extra work to
- : find the distance between Zip+4. I have done it, if you like I can tell you
- : how I did it.
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- : Group Benefits Shoppers
- : 2500 Central Ave., Suite G
- : Boulder, CO. 80303
- : (303) 449-4897
- : FAX (303) 449-0797
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- : Edwin
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- : In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960117003751.22062K-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu>,
- : cookca@cs.purdue.edu says...
- : >
- : >Anyone have an example program that computes the distance between two
- : >zipcodes?
- : >
- : >Craig
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- ftp ftp.census.gov//pub/tiger/zipcodes/zip.txt
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- the ascii file (2.5Meg) contains
- zip5, city, state, lat/lon (DDDMMSSss)
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- have fun,
- arlin@metronet.com
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