Shailen <shailen.t...@gmail.com> writes: > Thanks Martin and Aahz. Anyone know if zip code information is > copyrighted for the US? Anyone can look up zip codes on usps.gov (and > other locations),so the information is readily available. I need zip > codes for a handful of cities and could map those myself (or write a > script to scrape them for me), but am not sure if they *MUST* be > purchased for copyright reasons. Anyone know?
I don't think US zip code info is copyrighted. There is a lot of it in the TIGER database: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua_tgr2k.html There are also some API's operated by usps.com if you want just a few lookups now and then. It was a long time ago, I don't remember specifics, and the contents are surely out of date by now, but I extracted a bunch of the TIGER geographic coordinates for zip codes here: http://www.nightsong.com/phr/chess/zipcodes.zip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
