Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz

where does it offer that? When i look at the free version it has city code and city and thats all. If you want lat and lon you have to get the gold version which is $350 for 1 month. On 8/17/06, Reene Fierk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try on this sites. Hope it helps:

RE: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz

PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Turetsky, Seth wrote: I don't know much about ESRI, but Microsoft allows to get driving directions and distance in their JS API(definitely free), google and yahoo(I believe) do

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Turetsky, Seth wrote: So with esri, can you do the routing without showing a map, ie for backend systems? I would like to get the estimated distance between two zip codes, store it in a table. And potentially do that for x number of records. for that you don't need esri's ws, well at least

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Yeah that's true, but I just wanted it open in case someday I use the whole address, as this is car service related. -Original Message- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz

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9:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Cool stuff. So with esri, can you do the routing without showing a map, ie for backend systems? I would like to get the estimated distance between two zip codes, store it in a table. And potentially do that for x number

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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Why not just calculate it yourself? Get a table with lat and long, and use a function to calculate the distance. I found one fairly easy when I build something like

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PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Cool stuff. So with esri, can you do the routing without showing a map, ie for backend systems? I would like to get the estimated distance between two zip codes, store

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Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Why not just calculate it yourself? Get a table with lat and long, and use a function to calculate the distance. I found one fairly easy when I

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- From: Richard Dillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz So to clean up the addresses would you build an address form with: Number [ six digit textbox numeric only] Dir [ E.N.S.W. Dropdown] Street [ 30

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Turetsky, Seth wrote: Yeah that's true, but I just wanted it open in case someday I use the whole address, as this is car service related. you have to request the map so yeah i guess you can simply make the routing request save the results w/out the map image.

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Turetsky, Seth wrote: What would a table of worldwide postal/zip codes and lat/long cost? i'm not sure one exists for *all* countries, definitely not one suitable for routing between addresses or postal codes. here's a free one for many countries: http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/ which

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Richard Dillman wrote: What a nightmare for your data entry people. they already complain about my dropdowns for MR/Mrs Jr/Sr lol. where's the happy medium? a 3rd party tool to clean up the data. ~| Introducing the Fusion

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I posted a CURRENT $5 usa zipcode db with lat/lon earlier, beware of the free ones because they are usually old. Also remember for finding distance between zipcodes isnt tricky just not accurrate in all cases. Here is a situation i just went through. i bought the database which gave me

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Message- From: Richard Dillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz So to clean up the addresses would you build an address form with: Number [ six digit textbox numeric only] Dir [ E.N.S.W

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Try on this sites. Hope it helps: http://www.geodatasource.com . It provides Free Edition for Worldwide City Names, Latitude/Longitude, as well as distance calculation. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80

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How do you want to verify the address? Display a map, then the user would verify it? I've been playing with Microsoft's Mappoint stuff lately, they offer a lot of stuff that Google does not. See http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ shows some examples and the source of each. -Original

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Turetsky, Seth wrote: I've been playing with Microsoft's Mappoint stuff lately, they offer a lot of stuff that Google does not. See http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ shows some examples and the source of each. so does esri's webservices but you don't have to sell any of your children to

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I think it's free now -Original Message- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Turetsky, Seth wrote: I've been playing with Microsoft's Mappoint stuff lately, they offer

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Check out my blog entry here: http://www.fergusonhouse.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/27/coldfusion-geocode This actually uses geocoder.us to get the lat/lon for a given address. What you could easily do is to mark an address as suspect if no lat/lon is returned. However, whether you use geocoder or

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we dont need a map, the Dataentry / Receptionist just needs some coaxing... to put in correct stuff like street direction sufix... If i got back a list of possible matches: I could wrap a link around it to repopulate the form. On 8/16/06, Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turetsky,

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Another option: You can create a link to MapQuest with your variables... http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=UScountryid=USaddtohistor y=searchtype=addresscat=address=#address#city=#city#state=#state#z ipcode=#zipcode#search=Searchsearchtab=address Shelley Browning

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: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Zipcodes addresses and all that jazz Turetsky, Seth wrote: I think it's free now the mappoint/whatever stuff was insanely expensive compared to the redlands folks. not to mention that these days esri's doing a lot of work in flex. ms's

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I just did a dealer finder based on zipcode that returns a google map, it also fetches their address and brings back lat long and puts in db for accurate showing on map. But here is the problem(s) you will run into. The first is that if you try and use a geoservice or in my case i go right at

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Turetsky, Seth wrote: I don't know much about ESRI, but Microsoft allows to get driving directions and distance in their JS API(definitely free), google and yahoo(I believe) do not. M$'s other web service API(not sure about price), which I have not used and not sure if CF can use it, is also

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Dave Lyons wrote: but the following addresses with come back with an error: 123 s elm st ste #14, denver, co pretty much all geocoding engines work on normalized addresses. the better ones have tools to clean them up before you pass them thru the engine.