Is anybody aware of any existing world-wide data-collection effort of postal codes in relation to geogrpahical coordinates (long/lat)? Not unlike the commercial data sets only: A) Open Source, Open Content (Commons Content? Whatever.) B) World-wide. At the granularity of *JUST* postal code <-> long/lat I'm *not* interested in niche database engines for geo-data on the scale and scope of MapQuest et al, thank you very much. Just: country_code + postal_code <====> (long, lat) in a one-to-one relationship, as crude as that might be. K.I.S.S. You put in your home-town, and I'll put in mine, and we'll all share, okay? Assuming the answer is "No" is anybody interested in collaborating on such a project with me and a colleague? We're looking at a VERY simple distributed data network model, with all source and content being OpenSource/CommonContent, and very simplistic "access rules" for how you can build/share content with others. It's 2005. Shouldn't any web-site anywhere be able to plug in [a subset of] this data and just run with it already? Aren't there enough developers who have re-invented this wheel, and have sufficient data they collected themselves (or could collect) to just build an OPEN data set? If a Little Guy like me needs world-wide data set, surely others also do. Duh. Did I mention we're coding this in PHP, so it *is* (somewhat) on-topic to this list? That said, just contact me off-list if you're interested. Please include specific skills/areas of development, and outline the scope of any dataset for which YOU own copyrights. No, we do *NOT* want to steal copyrighted data. Can you do CVS? Write PHP code? Have a server with some bandwidth to spare? Thanks. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
