Global navigation?
Christopher Brannon
chris at the-brannons.com
Sun Nov 14 22:03:07 UTC 2010
"Rob Harris" <robh at apearl.net> writes:
> interesting and useful little toy to amuse with.
Hi!
Yes, that could be useful. I've needed that sort of distance info on
a few occasions.
> if I can do it. zip code would compliment the UK postcodes of course, but
Do you have the dict tool installed over there?
Here's the data for the zip code of one of my previous residences.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was available in a form that is
more condusive to programmatic manipulation. At worst, it could be
scraped from the dict server.
Script started on Sun 14 Nov 2010 09:53:44 PM UTC
[chris at bach ~]$ dict -h dict.org 74820
1 definition found
From U.S. Gazetteer Zip Code Tabulation Areas (2000) [gaz-zip]:
74820 -- U.S. ZIP code
Municipality (1990): ADA, Oklahoma
All ZIPs for this municipality (1990):
74820
Population (2000): 28430
Housing Units (2000): 12627
Land area (2000): 304.001986 sq. miles (787.361496 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.017895 sq. miles (5.226325 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 306.019881 sq. miles (792.587821 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK)
Location: 34.780243 N, 96.687615 W
[chris at bach ~]$ exit
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