Shoot! I somehow didn't respond to the list. My bad.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:40 PM, M Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, the easiest way is definitely out, sorry. But, that's why I mentioned > the proximity search. You can make a table of citysearch cities to a > geopoint. Then you search based on the closest proximity. It's actually not > that hard to do. But there is still the fee for the zip database and so on. > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Stuart Whitmore <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Coding a solution based on ZIP Codes would require mapping ZIP Codes to >> the (proprietary) region name used by CitySearch. Their assigned region >> name is not just the city for a specific ZIP; for example, 98373 maps to >> Tacoma, WA even though it is a Puyallup, WA ZIP Code. >> >> -- >> Stuart Whitmore >> [email protected] >> >> Check out my books: http://www.just-stuart.com/bookshelf >> >> >> On 04/08/2011 03:17 PM, M Metzger wrote: >> >> >> If you are coding a solution, you can get a zipcode database and use it >> to find the city names from zips and so on. You can also geo search zip code >> data to find cities within a certain proximity. >> >> If this is an option for you, let me know and I will dig up some >> distance queries and so on. >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Stuart Whitmore <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> It looks like the RSS feeds from CitySearch (which fail RSS >>> validation, btw) are based on names of regions rather than ZIP Code >>> -- but, you can search by ZIP Code on the site to find a name of a >>> region, and the RSS feeds for it. >>> >>> For example, when I used the search form at the top of the site and >>> left the "What are you looking for?" field blank and put 98225 as the >>> ZIP, that field showed "Bellingham, WA Metro" -- and by scrolling to >>> the bottom of the page, I found a link to a page with three different >>> RSS feeds for the Bellingham area, such as: >>> http://national.citysearch.com/rss/reviews.xml?region=bellingham-wa-metro >>> (note the region name at the end) >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> -- >>> Stuart Whitmore >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Check out my books: http://www.just-stuart.com/bookshelf >>> >>> >>> >>> On 04/08/2011 08:40 AM, tomisspeaking wrote: >>> > Is there CitySearch local content I can pull on RSS to a local site by >>> zip? >>> > >>> > Tom >>> > >>> > >>> >>> > -- - <http://cognimotion.com>- <http://digitalworldnews.com> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [email protected] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
