On 5/3/06, Anthony DiPierro <slug@inbox.org> wrote:
> On 5/3/06, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:56, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> > > By the way, is your software going to be free? Any chance I can get a
> > > free copy if not? I do tax preparation and wind up looking up about
> > > 10-20 counties a year manually by searching through the internet. Not
> > > enough to pay for a solution, but a free tool wouldn't be so bad :).
> >
> > You're welcome to the code related to the above. It's designed as part of a
> > particular web solution. You'll need a web server with php and a sql db. (I
> > could host it but I don't know if I want to, as others can easily tune in and
> > eact up my bandwidth. I have had some thought about setting up a page with a
> > number of custom solutions, and google ads. So we'll see.)
> >
> > I'll make an announcement when it's ready. It's very easy to throw together a
> > simple web lookup so I'll probably make one specifically that you can use. If
> > I only have FL that will limit the load...
> >
> Heh, it's the small portion of clients *outside* Florida that are the
> hard ones to look up :). Anyway, I guess if I get a copy of the data
> I could just throw it into a spreadsheet file. Still easier than
> putting the address into the USPS form to find the county, finding thefindu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KP4DJT-6
> website of whatever state's government, and looking it up there, I
> guess.
>
> Hope the links I gave you are enough. Let me know if not. I think I
> have some other stuff around here somewhere, I used to be into all
> that GIS stuff.
This popped up on the advert bar in gmail while following this thread:
http://www.zipcodeworld.com/
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