From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2005-12-16T07:45:40+09:00
Subject: Re: US Zipcode API for Ruby?

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* Steve Litt (slitt@earthlink.net) wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 10:46 pm, Paul Duncan wrote:
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> >   pabs@halcyon:~/proj/zip> ./find.rb zipcode.db 22003 3
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> So where does one find zipcode.db?

It's generated from the zipcode CSV pasted in a previous email.

That's what the "./import.rb zipcode.{csv,db}" line does; imports the
contents of the CSV into the database.

Incidentally, I also wrote a quick script to calculate the distance
between two zip codes.  It works the same as the others:

  pabs@halcyon:~/proj/zip/zipfind> ./len.rb ./zipcode.db 22003 97405
  3187.72 miles

I packaged all of them up at the following URL:
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  http://pablotron.org/files/zipfind-0.2.tar.gz

Here's the OpenPGP signature for that tarball:

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Hope that helps.

> SteveT
>=20
> Steve Litt
> http://www.troubleshooters.com
> slitt@troubleshooters.com

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