Thanks
to everyone for the ideas.
Steve
Fogelson
Internet Commerce Solutions
-Original Message-From: Steve Smith
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 11:44
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Witango-Talk:
Zip code Validator
Canada Post
It's not a code issue, it's a data issue. There's no magic checksum like credit card number.
Postal/zipcode databases can be quite expensive. I spent hours searching and managed to get:
Canada for $45, US for $15http://www.zipsearcher.com/cancredit.htm
Warning -- Canada have 700,000 + codes.
Canada Post (www.canadapost.ca) has a monthly subscription service available. I drilled down through the Business Products section to this page:
http://www.canadapost.ca/business/offerings/address_management/can/other_data-e.asp
where it provides more information. I think that Radio Shack is
Check with the USPS about their National Change of Address (NCOA) database
for address validation. They also supply databases of just zip codes with
city, county, and states. Some are free and some have subscription fees.
-Original Message-
From: Fogelson, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL
Almost forgot...
A company called Global Data sells a CD with Zip Codes, State, City, FIPS
Code (a combination City/County code) and Longitude and Latitude for
GeoCoding.
$29.00
www.gencd.com
-Original Message-
From: Fogelson, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July
I have a quarterly subscription to this company:
http://www.zipinfo.com/
I have been using this for over a year, works well.
Robert.
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:
Hi,
Looking for some simple US or Canada zip code validation. Either a
snippet
of code or a
