RE: [CFTALKTor] Postal Codes

[Blake Crosby]

Ahh yeah..   There is also a pdf document on the canadapost website thats about 150 pages or so, with maps of the postal code boundries. They use physical objects, along with streets for their borders. For example, the "X1X" boundry might be "east side of hydro corridor, north side of black river, west side of Charles St. south side of CN railway tracks".     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cheryl Hill Sent: January 17, 2002 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] Postal Codes 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