It was in sept,2001 FPA...

It is very highly priced. Last I knew that they charge $5800 for unlimited calls into their webservice. This price includes calls to all of their webservice including Address Verification. I am sure you can get it for cheaper if you only want to use GeoCoder....


>Please tell me which issue your article appears in.
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>Very interesting web service - do you know how it's priced?
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>>Check out http://www.melissadata.com. They have COM components and web service too.
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>>I had an article on this in FPA. Send me an email if you have more questions.
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>>>I have a web application to which I need to add automatic scheduling - which entails mapping the shortest route between service calls.
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>>>I thought that perhaps the web service that plots the distance between the geographical center of each zip code might be the way to go, even though it may be flawed when dealing with addresses near the boundaries.
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>>>I also seem to remember an article in FPA from many moons ago that discussed this kind of thing, but I can't seem to find a reference at their web site.
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>>>Any thoughts or suggestions?