Desperately need an advanced zip code database

Rails
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I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if
there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I live in
New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is
there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and
latitudes? Let’s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database
that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points?

Thanks for your help!

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On Nov 25, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Ben J. wrote:

I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if
there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I
live in
New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is
there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and
latitudes? Let’s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database
that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points?

You generally need to talk to a geo-services company like ESRI for
something like that. I don’t recall seeing databases with boundaries
coordinates (there could be dozens and dozens of coords for a given
zip code), but I think ESRI can do it, and they probably have a web
service for it.

esri.com, they have a lot of different things so you may need to talk
to someone to narrow down what you want.

– gw (www.railsdev.ws)

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Ben J. wrote:

I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if
there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I live in
New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is
there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and
latitudes? Let’s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database
that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points?

Thanks for your help!

Depending on what you want to do, please check out GeoKit. It is a rails
plugin that can do some pretty sweet things such as geocode an address
automatically into a lat/lon

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What about Google Maps?

On Nov 26, 4:54 am, Nathan E. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-