Tag Archives: Geographic Names Information System

Anybody know of the online service (RPC, HTTP, anything free and instantaneous) that offers you the latitude and also longitude given a precise city and condition (US) http: //www. zipinfo. com/search/zipcode. htm Monsterous, but it works (remember to check on the " latitude along with longitude" box. ) http: //www. arrl. org/locate/locate. html A lot easier within the eyes and you will not click a checkbox. Sure is clumsy but will check into it. Look at that second you. It’s a ton easier both within the eyes and at a user standpoint. The USGS apparently incorporates a massive list that one could even download. Find " Geographic Names Information System" on the search engines. I wrote a PHP script that will parse the USGS data that’s formatted in variety form. Here it truly is: PHP: < phperror_reporting(E_ALL  &   E_NOTICE); ob_implicit_flush(true); set_time_limit(60  *  60); echo  “< pre> “; $filename  =  $_GET’filename’; if  (empty($filename)  or ! is_readable($filename))         die(“File  & quot; ”  .   htmlspecialchars($filename) .   “& quot;   not  readable”); echo  “Connecting  to  and  selecting  db… \n”; mysql_connect(“foo”,   “bar”,   “baz”); mysql_select_db(“vst”); echo  “Loading  file  into  plethora… “; $contents  =  file($filename); echo  “Done\n”; echo  “Parsing  ”  . … Continue reading →