zipcodeworld.com has US, Canada and Mexico. But there is no such thing as a worldwide sort of standard for postal codes. Just look at the worldwide extended area surcharge tables from UPS (you can get comma-delimited versions if you look around some) . You'll see numeric, alphanumeric and pure alpha strings, along with many countries with no codes at all.
When I wrote my US-only dealer locator I used zipcodeworld data ($30 I think) and picked apart another guy's tag and rewrote it. A lot of the commercial stuff out there does zip code search with horrible inefficiency. You're looking at 30 seconds to execute sometimes. What I came up with eventually wound up to be 10-100 times faster than the commercial stuff I bought. I put out this tag for free as ZipMonger (properly crediting the original author) and I have since heard from one guy who took the zipcodeworld data, which has lat/lon, and made it work with the tag. So it can be done. -- --mattRobertson-- Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:213602 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
