US/Canada database?

[acctman]

anyone know of an up2date US and Canada database. that has city, state/prov, zip/post and lon/lat database (sql, excel, txt)...

[fris]

nothing thats canadian, but usa i think i have something

[MediaGuy]

Isn't that against the law/privacy protection that Canadians still have under our constitution?

:D

[Babaganoosh]

http://www.zip-codes.com/

[acctman]

nothing thats canadian, but usa i think i have something

is it recent? i have an old US/CAN db about 2yrs old and a few cities that I know of are coming up wrong as well as some new zips that I don't know of have been added.

@MediaGuy wouldn't that make it difficult to receive mail?

I remember seeing a US gov site that had all city, state, zips, lat/lon and updated almost 2-3monthly with new postal code additions. they gave a raw text download of it for free. I never bookmarked it at the time.

email: pa_misc !!<at>!! live.com

[garce]

Isn't that against the law/privacy protection that Canadians still have under our constitution?

:D

I think the Canadian Constitution was written before the internet existed - and I don't think its been updated much since then. I might have missed something, but there are privacy laws that about as effective as a Doug Flutie "Hail Mary!" pass if someone gets pissed off and snitches on you.

[acctman]

found it, this is the site I was talking about earlier
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/
has all zips, cities, states, zones, etc for free and updated regularly for free.