Peter,
I have also found this ability to feed addresses to Google Maps
useful, but I normally do this in FileMaker. (I do a lot of database
work around election time for local candidates. The Google maps come
particularly handy in composing Walking Lists for volunteers.)
Using the template from Richard I have been able to work up a stack
that allows one to batch process a list of addresses to obtain the 9
digit zip codes. This is critical if one is doing bulk mailing--where
the 9 digit zip is required. Parsing out the zip code is very easy.
These lists can be purchased but they are very expensive, running into
the hundreds and thousands of dollars.
I have still been unable (even with Richard's help) to construct for
myself the template that is to be POSTed to the US Postal Service web
site. Pity--I'm sure this would be a useful thing to know for future
applications.
I have placed the stack on Rev Online under the title:
"Get 9 digit zip codes."
So now I have two stacks focusing on the digit nine; "Nine ball pool"
and "Get 9 digit zip code." My next foray into the digit nine will be
a stack to retrieve 9 digit social security numbers. Now that will be
particularly interesting. :-)
Jim
Message: 23
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:06:26 -0500
From: Peter Brigham MD <pmb...@gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Subject: Re: Nine digit zip codes
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FWIW, I have a handler that feeds the address to Google Maps and then
parses the HTML to extract the 5-digit zip code. Takes less than a
second unless the traffic is high. I'm pretty good at text parsing but
know very little about XML and GET/POST commands -- I had to look
around to find a webpage that I could post the address using straight
HTML rather than Java or SQL or whatever, and Google Maps was it. Only
a 5-digit zip, though.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:53 PM, James Hurley wrote:
I sent this message a while back, but I suspect it got lost in the
RunRev-LiveCode changeover.
At the USPS web site (http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/) it is possible by
entering the street address, the city and the state to obtain the 9
digit zip code for that address.
This may be naive, but is it possible to do this from within
LiveCode by script?
Jim
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