Dave Turner on Sat, 8 Sep 2001 17:30:09 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Free code base of longitude and latitude for geographic locations - US


Adam Turoff wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Voris, John wrote:
> > FREE ZIPCODE DATABASE
> > CFDynamics, a Cold Fusion hosting site, has made available a free,
> > comma-delimited file that lists the following information for U.S.
> > Postal Service Zip codes: Zip code, Latitude, Longitude, City, State,
> > County, and Zip code class. Here's a sample record:
> >
> > "97401","+44.117868","-123.074193","EUGENE","OR","LANE","STANDARD"
> >
> > The file is available at
> >
> > http://www.cfdynamics.com/zipbase/ .
> 
> How magnanamous.  It looks like this file comes from the Census or
> the US Post Office -- free data already in the public domain.
> 
> Z.

All data is in the public domain.  See Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone
service for details.

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