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Posted by harryfmudd [AT] comcast [DOT] net on 07/29/06 00:11
John Bokma wrote:
> "Navodit" <kaushik2@uiuc.edu> wrote:
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>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have a very basic question regd retrieving information from website
>>using a scripting language:
>>
>>Basically I am working on the development of a database where a user
>>enters an address (street, city, state, zipcode). Based on the user
>>input of the address, I need to dynamically determine the latitude and
>>longitude of that address from the internet. One such website was :
>>http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php where we enter the street, city,
>>state and zipcode etc and the webpage returns the latitude and
>>longitude.
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> How often is this going to happen, and does the owner of the site allow
> you to do repeated automatic requests?
>
http://geocoder.us/ is another source. They take SOAP, and are
Perl-friendly (it's a one-liner using SOAP::Lite, once you have
instantiated the SOAP::Lite object). You need to pay them some money if
you are using it for commercail purposes. Personal use is free.
But I agree with John - if you're using Java use Java, which is
advertised as being wonderful for web apps. Of course the fine print in
the book I read said that if you were doing a "POST" you were on your own.
Tom Wyant
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