RE: [CFTALKTor] Postal Codes

[Cheryl Hill]

In a recent contract we had to be very specific.  We ended up creating a postal code lookup table with longitudes and latitudes. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blake Crosby Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] Postal Codes I was trying to do the same thing... except I resorted to just matching up the first two characters.   You might want to check out the following url: http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/b02-e.asp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Mason Sent: January 17, 2002 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CFTALKTor] Postal Codes I'm looking for suggestions on how to go about finding postal codes close to a users postal code.    Basically I need to find the closest location of a building to the postal code a user submits.  It needs to be more accurate than just looking for similar characters in the first 3 characters of the postal code.  This is only moderately accurate for metropolitan areas.  An example of where it doesn't work would be a rural code in Ont. starting with L0 where the closest location to this is somewhere in Toronto and the postal code starts with M.   Rick Mason Pangaea NewMedia, Inc. http://www.pangaeanewmedia.ca 416-922-1600