Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: zip code proximity search

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Posted by Alfred Werner on
The USPS does provide this feature - http://www.uspswebtools.com ..
which allows you to do just about anything mail related you could want to. I think USPS would argue that it's not their business to provide geocoding databases - they are charged with delivering mail. That's why the previous dataset was actually from census (as is the one used for the google contest).

I've seen several posts recently about people wanting web services - maybe we as a community should tackle coding for this, Bundespost and a few others ...