Re: zip codes

2009-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-17, Sjoerd Mullender sjo...@acm.org wrote: Also in The Netherlands, ZIP codes are much more fine-grained than in some other countries: ZIP code plus house number together are sufficient to uniquely identify an address. I.e. you don't need the street name. E.g., my work address has

Re: zip codes

2009-08-17 Thread Aahz
In article 35833d36-2fdc-4ed8-8142-604af3c88...@k6g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, Shailen shailen.t...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any Python module that helps with US and foreign zip-code lookups? I'm thinking of something that provides basic mappings of zip to cities, city to zips, etc. Since this

Re: zip codes

2009-08-17 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Shailen wrote: Is there any Python module that helps with US and foreign zip-code lookups? I'm thinking of something that provides basic mappings of zip to cities, city to zips, etc. Since this kind of information is so often used for basic user-registration, I'm assuming functionality of this

Re: zip codes

2009-08-17 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Shailen wrote: Is there any Python module that helps with US and foreign zip-code lookups? I'm thinking of something that provides basic mappings of zip to cities, city to zips, etc. Since this kind of information is so often used for basic user-registration, I'm

Re: zip codes

2009-08-17 Thread MRAB
Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Shailen wrote: Is there any Python module that helps with US and foreign zip-code lookups? I'm thinking of something that provides basic mappings of zip to cities, city to zips, etc. Since this kind of information is so often used for basic

Re: zip codes

2009-08-17 Thread steven.oldner
On Aug 17, 5:21 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Shailen wrote: Is there any Python module that helps with US and foreign zip-code lookups? I'm thinking of something that provides basic mappings of zip to cities, city to zips,

Re: zip codes

2009-08-17 Thread Nigel Rantor
MRAB wrote: Sjoerd Mullender wrote: Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Shailen wrote: Is there any Python module that helps with US and foreign zip-code lookups? I'm thinking of something that provides basic mappings of zip to cities, city to zips, etc. Since this kind of information is so often used

Re: zip codes

2009-08-16 Thread Shailen
Thanks Martin and Aahz. Anyone know if zip code information is copyrighted for the US? Anyone can look up zip codes on usps.gov (and other locations),so the information is readily available. I need zip codes for a handful of cities and could map those myself (or write a script to scrape them for

Re: zip codes

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Rubin
Shailen shailen.t...@gmail.com writes: Thanks Martin and Aahz. Anyone know if zip code information is copyrighted for the US? Anyone can look up zip codes on usps.gov (and other locations),so the information is readily available. I need zip codes for a handful of cities and could map those

Re: zip codes

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Rubin
It was a long time ago, I don't remember specifics, and the contents are surely out of date by now, but I extracted a bunch of the TIGER geographic coordinates for zip codes here: http://www.nightsong.com/phr/chess/zipcodes.zip That file may have actually come from here:

Re: zip codes

2009-08-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-16, Shailen shailen.t...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Martin and Aahz. Anyone know if zip code information is copyrighted for the US? You can't copyright information as such. Only concrete expressions of information. A particular publication containing zip code information can be