Actually, you can use the GMaps geocoding service to get postal code information. Check out the documentation here:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ And an example of the JSON response (look for the PostalCode portion near the top) here: http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&output=json&oe=utf8&sensor=true_or_false&key=your_api_key Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com http://jgeerdes.blogspot.com http://jgeerdes.wordpress.com [email protected] Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this communication are given in US dollars. If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! And check out my blog, Adventures in Web Development, at http://jgeerdes.blogspot.com ! On Aug 20, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Artem Sav wrote: > > Hi, > I haven't found anything on google or in this group. > > I am using limited local search to find businesses around particular > coordinate. > LocalSearch returns pretty good results in the GsearchResultClass > structure - name of business, address, city, state and phone. > Anything missing? Well, yes, the zip code. Why is it not included? > > Same issue with Google Maps geocoder obviously - it doesn't include > postal code if you do geocoding of an address, see xml data > transmitted here for example: > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/geocoding-simple.html > > It does make some degree of sense in case of Maps (zip being an > artificial thing), but in case of Local Search it makes very little > sense - these addresses come from yellow pages and as such do carry > that info in the original data source. > > I guess my question is if there is any web service API from Google > which i could use to find postal code of an address/coordinate. I can > already do the reverse (just put the zip in the above geocoding > example) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
