Anyone here has an idea of any good database or RoR plugin for zip and
postal codes ???
Thank you…
I’m not sure of a plugin for it, but for US addresses you could try
the web services provided by the USPS:
What do you need to do with it? I asked this exact same question a while
ago because I needed a way to search for an item based on its distance
from a certain zipcode. I ended up stumbling onto GeoKit which is an
amazing rails plugin for geocoding locations and performing a variety of
related tasks.
I have a CSV file for all zip codes in the US:
Code,Latitude,Longitude,City,State,County,Type
Load all the zips in a table and use GeoKit so that I can find
distance qualifications by address (zip_code) without the expense of
hitting a geocoder. Much faster and 100% available. It’s also useful
for classifying people by county (which geocoders can not do), and for
presenting a list of cities, or auto-completing the city/state when
someone enters a zip.
Just keep in mind that the lon/lat is for the CENTER of the zip_code
area and may or may not fit your accuracy needs.
It may not be 100% correct, but it does have my home zip_code which
became active only last year, so it looks pretty good to me.
Just drop me an email if you would like a copy. Also let me know if
you would like a model and import script for importing the file.
On Feb 2, 1:55 pm, “[email protected]” [email protected] wrote:
To be honest, what I was more in need for is a db or a plugin for
country/state drop down…
But since I don’t know how my app is going to evolve, I tought it’d be
better to get
the full thing now (zip codes etc…). I’ve heard about GeoKit and
I’ve seen the API,
its nice but isn’t that a bit too much, since I don’t plan to be
making a map app???
What could you suggest me ??? thx for your time.
Well, you can use the us_states plugin to create a
us_state_options_for_select (selection list).
http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/us_states/
And rails provides country_select to select from a list of countries.
To be honest, what I was more in need for is a db or a plugin for
country/state drop down…
But since I don’t know how my app is going to evolve, I tought it’d be
better to get
the full thing now (zip codes etc…). I’ve heard about GeoKit and
I’ve seen the API,
its nice but isn’t that a bit too much, since I don’t plan to be
making a map app???
What could you suggest me ??? thx for your time.
On Feb 2, 12:22 am, Nathan E. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-