Location Data

Shipping, Navigation,

Location from:

Normalizing Addresses

Street Abbreviations
fips state and county codes

See also:
- http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub28/welcome.htm Publication 28, Postal Address Standards. Documents how the USPS says addresses should be formated.
- http://www.semaphorecorp.com/cgi/form.html Wow! Doesn't show the County but does give the fips code. Returns usefull information no matter how little data you supply. For example, given a city and state, it shows the zip code range that could apply.
- http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/boston-pm/2003-August/001241.html
- http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html Does a great job of correcting addresses with misspellings or other small errors. Wish the source code was available.
- http://w2.melissadata.com/lookups/AddressVerify.asp Pretty darn good. Requres registration after a few free lookups.
- http://www.grcdi.nl/products.htm#data
- http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm

See also:

madeline@sendcom.org refers to
https://www.edq.com/demos/ I am reaching out to you to inquire about your site.
I noticed you have links to several different sites that provide people/address search tools.
A resource I've used before for similar online research is EDQ.com. Their site has tools for address, email and phone verification and loookup.

The site could be a great addition to your page and assist your readers that are looking to do these types of searches. Would you be interested in adding their link to your list?

Thanks for your time
Madeline Rogers
madeline@sendcom.org
http://www.smartystreets.com Address verification service. 250 lookups per month free.
http://www.ip2location.com IP Address Geo Location Service
http://geocoder.us/ Address to Latitude and Logitude
http://www.downloadzipcode.com Free ZIP code database.
http://www.zip-codes.com United States Zip Codes Directory
http://www.zipcodesmap.com zip code maps
http://www.sylvanmaps.com/MapData.htm Free map data.
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html For addresses inside the USA, you can enter an address, get the full ZIP+4 code back and the address reformatted exactly the way the U.S. Post office likes it. On June 17th they changed it from .gov to .com and the one at .gov still responds but with an error message that leads one to believe the request was mal-formed.
The new Zip+4 lookup page at http://www.usps.com/zip4/welcome.htm contains a note saying "For integrating ZIP Code Lookup capabilities into your web site or application system, please visit our Web Tools (APIs) or find additional addressing products at Address Information System Products (AIS)."
However, as far as I can see, there is no zip code lookup or address verificatoin tools in the in Web Tools and the AIS products are databases that are updated by subscription and have a starting cost around $1000.00. Just scrape the page.

http://www.gregorpurdy.com/gregor/sw/Scrape-USPS-ZipLookup/
http://www.apoktechnology.com/products/usps/address-standardization.cfm $250 Coldfusion interface to the USPS API's
http://gonzosrun.com/zipcode.htm low cost zip code to city, state database.
http://www.zipcodesdownload.com zip codes download
http://www.zipcodeworld.com zip code database
http://www.zipcodesdatabase.com zip code database
links@zipcodedownload.com refers to " http://www.zipcodedownload.com ZIP Code radius and lookup tools. Commercial versions available"
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places.html
FIPS codes: A numerical ID number for each state and county
- http://www.census.gov/geo/www/fips/fips.html
- http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/by-num.htm
http://javascript.internet.com/forms/zip-to-state.html Enter your five digit zip code and press tab to have the script display your state automatically. Also appears to VALIDATE Zip codes.
http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm area code, county, lat/long, fips, etc...