I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I live in New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and latitudes? Let''s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points? Thanks for your help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On Nov 25, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Ben Johnson wrote:> I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if > there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I > live in > New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is > there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and > latitudes? Let''s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database > that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points?You generally need to talk to a geo-services company like ESRI for something like that. I don''t recall seeing databases with boundaries coordinates (there could be dozens and dozens of coords for a given zip code), but I _think_ ESRI can do it, and they probably have a web service for it. esri.com, they have a lot of different things so you may need to talk to someone to narrow down what you want. -- gw (www.railsdev.ws) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Nathan Esquenazi
2007-Nov-26 06:54 UTC
Re: Desperately need an advanced zip code database....
Ben Johnson wrote:> I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if > there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I live in > New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is > there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and > latitudes? Let''s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database > that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points? > > Thanks for your help!Depending on what you want to do, please check out GeoKit. It is a rails plugin that can do some pretty sweet things such as geocode an address automatically into a lat/lon -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
What about Google Maps? On Nov 26, 4:54 am, Nathan Esquenazi <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote:> Ben Johnson wrote: > > I found a million zip code databases on the internet. I was curious if > > there were other database that have more than just zip codes. I live in > > New York City and there are different areas here, soho, noho, etc. Is > > there a database that draws out these areas with longitude and > > latitudes? Let''s pretend soho is a perfect square, is there a database > > that would contain the longitude and latitudes for these 4 points? > > > Thanks for your help! > > Depending on what you want to do, please check out GeoKit. It is a rails > plugin that can do some pretty sweet things such as geocode an address > automatically into a lat/lon > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---