Addresses & Mapping

[Justin Leavens]

Opening a browser window to a mapped address in Mapquest is fairly 
trivial, that part I can do. The problem is that scraping the info off 
of free Mapquest pages is a dubious business practice at best, let 
alone unreliable... Mapquest business services are "starting at 
$4,400", although I'm waiting for some actual pricing.

I had hoped there was something else people were using. I'm very 
surprised at the lack of mapping software available Mac-side and that 
no one has stepped in.

> On 6/2/04 9:45 AM, "Justin Leavens" <justin_lists at lizeric.com> wrote:
>
>> We're looking for a solution to handle some mapping and address
>> handling needs.
>>
>> The first step is that we need to be able to calculate distances
>> between addresses. We've found some web services that will calculate
>> the distance between two zip codes, but this is too generic since
>> they're calculated from the center of the zip and don't represent a
>> true distance. Maybe distances between ZIP+4 is better? The second
>> eventual step will be to do mapping of the two addresses and 
>> directions
>> between them.
>>
>> Our need is to retrieve this info into our custom application either
>> via Applescript or from a SOAP web service. If anyone knows of a good
>> provider for this information, either software or service, it would be
>> very much appreciated.
>>
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Justin Leavens
Lizeric, Inc.
jleavens at lizeric.com

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