NYCPHP Meetup

[Jayesh Sheth]

Hello all,

I thought this script would be of use to some of you. I just came across it.

 It is a script that provides a SOAP interface to a freely available 
list of 43191 zip codes + latitudes and longitudes by Civicspace Labs.

You can download the software here:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/zipwebservice/?branch_id=57410&release_id=192526

You can download the zip code database here:
http://civicspacelabs.org/home/zipcodedb

You can  view a demo of it here:
http://www.cthorn.com/zipcodes/

This is so exciting for me ... there are so many uses for this. An 
entered zip code can be validated against a city name, or a city name 
can be automatically prefilled once a zip code is entered, and so on. 
Also - the associated latitudes and longitudes could be used to 
calculate things such as 'people in your area' etc.

Best regards,

- Jay Sheth