NYCPHP Meetup

[Rolan Yang]

Heh, for 3500, I would just go ahead and scrape it.

Once I wrote an app which, when given a street address, would fetch and 
scrape zip+4 results from the usps.gov website.
It worked without a hitch until google and yahoo linked it from their 
front page.. around noon, the app stopped working..
and so did the entire usps.gov website. A minute later my client was on 
the phone informing me that the postmaster general called and was going 
to shut them down for DOS'ing the servers.

~Rolan


John Corry wrote:

>Attn: cross posted to ATLPHP
>
>I am working on a project that will require running about 3500 street
>addresses through a geocoder application to return lat/long pairs.
>
>My first idea was to use cURL to post the address to the http://geocoder.us/
>site...once for each address, parsing the returned result to get lat/long
>and store those with the address record in my db.
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