address validation

[Alan Zhong]

when designing the address data entry webpage, i wonder...
is there an online map/direction webpage that allow us to check if an
address is validate? or auto-completes city names from the zip code?

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

al*********@yahoo.com (Alan Zhong) wrote in message news:<b0**************************@posting.google. com>...

when designing the address data entry webpage, i wonder...
is there an online map/direction webpage that allow us to check if an
address is validate? or auto-completes city names from the zip code?

Perhaps <http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm>

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[William Ahern]

Alan Zhong <al*********@yahoo.com> wrote:

when designing the address data entry webpage, i wonder...
is there an online map/direction webpage that allow us to check if an
address is validate? or auto-completes city names from the zip code?

The USPS offers a free service, which will auto-complete and canonicalize
domestic addresses. However, the process to get an approved account is
tedious. Here's their site:

http://www.usps.com/webtools/welcome.htm

The API is superficially `XML', but in reality the implementation seems to
just use lots of strcmp() ;) So, follow the examples _exactly_--letter by
letter, space by space.

If anybody manages to get an account and is interested, I can post some PHP
classes which handle everything quite nicely.

- Bill

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

William Ahern <wi*****@wilbur.25thandClement.com> wrote in message news:<qg************@wilbur.25thandClement.com>...

Alan Zhong <al*********@yahoo.com> wrote:

when designing the address data entry webpage, i wonder...
is there an online map/direction webpage that allow us to check if an
address is validate? or auto-completes city names from the zip code?

The USPS offers a free service, which will auto-complete and canonicalize
domestic addresses. However, the process to get an approved account is
tedious. Here's their site:

http://www.usps.com/webtools/welcome.htm

The API is superficially `XML', but in reality the implementation seems to
just use lots of strcmp() ;) So, follow the examples _exactly_--letter by
letter, space by space.

If anybody manages to get an account and is interested, I can post some PHP
classes which handle everything quite nicely.

I didn't signup there. But, I'm really interested in seeing your
code & style.

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"I don't believe in the God who doesn't give me food, but shows me
heaven!"--Swami Vivekanandha
If you live in USA, please support John Edwards.
Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com

[Alan Zhong]

i had signed up there, they send me an email giving me the username &
password.
but i could never pass their authoriation when i put the following in
the address bar.
http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=Verify&XML=<AddressValidat eRequest%20USERID="xxxxxxxx"%20PASSWORD="xxxxxxxx" ><Address
ID="0"><Address1></Address1><Address2>6406 Ivy
Lane</Address2><City>Greenbelt</City><State>MD</State><Zip5></Zip5><Zip4></Zip4></Address></AddressValidateRequest>
it always says the usre is not authorized.
i sent them emails, but they didn't reply for 3 days.
is it true that after this "testing" i need to send them emails and
wait for them to turn on the service for me?
sure if you are kind enough to provide the source code of handling the
address.
thankx a lot again.
from alan.