Location Data

Shipping, Navigation,

Location from:

• Zip Code
• Phone number
• IP address / domain name
• Global Positioning Systems

Normalizing Addresses

• Street Abbreviations
• fips state and county codes
   
  See also:
  • http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub28/welcome.htm Publication 28, Postal Address Standards. Documents how the USPS says addresses should be formated.+
  • http://www.semaphorecorp.com/cgi/form.html Wow! Doesn't show the County but does give the fips code. Returns usefull information no matter how little data you supply. For example, given a city and state, it shows the zip code range that could apply.
  • http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boston-pm/2003-August/001241.html
  • http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html Does a great job of correcting addresses with misspellings or other small errors. Wish the source code was available.+
  • http://w2.melissadata.com/lookups/AddressVerify.asp Pretty darn good. Requres registration after a few free lookups.
  • http://www.grcdi.nl/products.htm#data
  • http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm

See also:

• http://www.smartystreets.com Address verification service. 250 lookups per month free.
• http://www.ip2location.com IP Address Geo Location Service+
• http://geocoder.us/ Address to Latitude and Logitude
• http://www.downloadzipcode.com Free ZIP code database.+
• http://www.zip-codes.com United States Zip Codes Directory+
• http://www.zipcodesmap.com zip code maps+
• http://www.sylvanmaps.com/MapData.htm Free map data.+
• http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html For addresses inside the USA, you can enter an address, get the full ZIP+4 code back and the address reformatted exactly the way the U.S. Post office likes it. On June 17th they changed it from .gov to .com and the one at .gov still responds but with an error message that leads one to believe the request was mal-formed.

  The new Zip+4 lookup page at http://www.usps.com/zip4/welcome.htm contains a note saying "For integrating ZIP Code Lookup capabilities into your web site or application system, please visit our Web Tools (APIs) or find additional addressing products at Address Information System Products (AIS)."

  However, as far as I can see, there is no zip code lookup or address verificatoin tools in the in Web Tools and the AIS products are databases that are updated by subscription and have a starting cost around $1000.00. Just scrape the page.

  http://www.gregorpurdy.com/gregor/sw/Scrape-USPS-ZipLookup/
  http://www.apoktechnology.com/products/usps/address-standardization.cfm $250 Coldfusion interface to the USPS API's
   

• http://gonzosrun.com/zipcode.htm low cost zip code to city, state database.
• http://www.zipcodesdownload.com zip codes download+
• http://www.zipcodeworld.com zip code database+
• http://www.zipcodesdatabase.com zip code database+
• SPAMlinks at zipcodedownload.com refers to " http://www.zipcodedownload.com ZIP Code radius and lookup tools. Commercial versions available" +
• http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.html
• FIPS codes: A numerical ID number for each state and county
  • http://www.census.gov/geo/www/fips/fips.html
  • http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/by-num.htm
• http://javascript.internet.com/forms/zip-to-state.html Enter your five digit zip code and press tab to have the script display your state automatically. Also appears to VALIDATE Zip codes.
  http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm area code, county, lat/long, fips, etc...

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