Can you please suggest me a good provider for "City, State, Country, Zip code/postal code and geocode" Database. We have a requirement in our project for location search autocomplete. So, we need a database with complete locations list for US and Canada on priority and other countries in future.
Please suggest a location database provider with above mentioned fields, which has accurate data.
For Canada and the US see: https://geocoder.ca/?register=1&capostal=1
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The Canadian Postal Code Dataset, last updated on 2018-07-01 00:15:15, with 5371 new records, has a total of 995676 unique postal codes.)
For your task you will most likely need: 2. Complete File - Canada Postal Address Database (20363095 records as of 2018-06-26 16:28:27)
As for the USA, fro the same source: the US Zip+4 Database Containing over 30Million Records
For USA you can populate data from the link below :
http://gomashup.com/cms/usa_zipcode_json
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I'm decent when it comes to working with Access, and can usually figure things out but am currently stumped on this query process.
I only have 2 shipment tables. One contains historical data (tblBookedLoads), while the second table (RMCData) contains current orders.
What I need to do, is for each row in RMCData, figure out who has driven the same route recently (Origin to Destination) and send them an email with the details of the matching shipments... and any others that match, IE, if I have 50 shipments from Atlanta to Memphis tomorrow, I don't want to send them 50 emails.
I'm just not sure about how to go about retrieving the information since it it stored in different formats, or how to create a query based on row by row data from fields in another table... Let me know what you think. I'm guessing it has something to do with looping in vba, but not sure.
Both tables are read only.
tblRMCData 'Contains details for new orders (approx. 1000 rows)
' has fields 'ReferenceNum','Ship Date','Origin City', 'Origin State','Origin Zip','destination', 'Weight','Comments","Comments2"
'Origin/Destination City, State and Zip are separated
tblBookedLoads 'contains history of orders (approx. 20000 rows). CONTAINS DUPLICATES
' has fields 'Carrier', 'Ship Date", 'Order','Origin', 'Destination','Weight','Bill Amount",'email address'
' Origin/Destination is populated as "LITTLE ROCK, AR 12345"
Any advise is appreciated.
(revised) I have a web app where information will be entered for a user. First and last name as well as 3 Affiliations (primary, secondary, and tertiary) associated with the person. Each affiliation has 3 components (title, department, and university). So for example one record could be for:
User: Bob, Robertson
Affiliation1: Professor, Chemistry, U. Florida
Affiliation2: Director, Amazing Chemistry Institute, U. Florida
Affiliation3: Affiliated Faculty, BioChemistry, Florida Tech.
Also, Title and Department are text input fields but Univ. refers to a specific list of about 3000 university names 'univ_name' which is why it has it's own table. also affiliationOrdinal would be something like (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Users Affiliation Univ.
======= ============ =========
id_user id_affiliation id_univ
FirstName id_user univ_name
LastName affiliationOrdinal
title
department
id_univ
Thanks Sean for your feedback, I started thinking of this more as a user with multiple addresess type of problem and that has been solved many times over it seems. I picked this one as a reference. Mysql database design for customer multiple addresses and default address. So the above should be a bit closer to workable right?
I'm using USPS IntlRateV2 API to retrieve shipping rates for international customers.
The problem I'm facing is that USPS requires to fill in a country name (not the 2 characters code for it, but the full name) that causes me troubles getting rates for countries that have no straightforward name, for example: south Korea and there are many of such countries.
Does anyone can come up with a list of all USPS supported countries?
I've tried contacting the USPS but no reply given.
I appreciate any help.
I found a nice snippet to get the list off USPS website:
https://github.com/tajmorton/extract_usps_countries/blob/master/extract_countries.py
Credit goes to: taj morton
I am not sure if this the proper forum for my kind of question but since you all guys are programmers perhaps you know a bit of everything. :)
So what I want to do is to create in MS Access a simple contact database (for my clients). BUT I want for each of my contacts (AKA records) to be able to add info assigned to dates (something like subform-record I guess) one info (note) assigned to one date for each record/client
Example:
Record 1: Bill Smith.
Date 17/02/2012 note: "I got 30$"
Date 18/05/2012 note: "I got 30$"
Record 2: Spencer Williams.
Date 17/02/2012 note: "I got 30$"
Date 18/05/2012 note: "I got 30$"
Date 19/05/2012 note: "I got 30$"
and so on...
notice that different records will give me info in the same dates sometimes.
In conclusion I wanna make a contact database for my clients but since I am having regular dates with them I want to take notes for each client : "what date" , "how much he gave me".
in case you are new comer in ms access world, I recommended to look at ready to use template. That can be downloaded from Microsoft site. For example : microsoft templates
in this et of template there is contact database
Address records are probably used in most database, but I've seen a number of slightly different sets of fields used to store them. The number of fields seems to vary from 3-7, and sometimes all fields are simple labelled address1..addressN, other times given specific meaning (town, city, etc).
This is UK specific, though I'm open to comments about the rest of the world too. Here you need the first line of the address (actually just the number) and the post code to identify the address - everything else is mostly an added bonus.
I'm currently favouring:
Address 1
Address 2
Address 3
Town
County
Post Code
We could add Country if we ever needed it (unlikely).
What do you think? Is this too little, too much?
The Post Office suggests (http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=19100182&mediaId=19100267) 7 lines:
Addressees Name
Company/Organisation
Building Name
Number of building and name of thoroughfare
Locality Name
Post Town
Post Code
They then say you do not need to include a County name provided the Post Town and Postcode are used.
The BSI have BS 7666 - that covers all addressing. I recommend you look there.
The 2000 version recommends
An address shall be based upon a logical data model comprising the following entities:
addressable object, with sub-types:
primary addressable object;
secondary addressable object;
street;
locality;
town;
administrative area, a.k.a. district;
county;
postcode.
See: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/def/common/BS7666Address
I don't know whether this is minimal (I doubt it) but the heading on my cheque book says something pretty close to:
Lloyds TSB
Isle of Man Offshore Centre
Peveril Buildings
Peveril Square
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM99 0XX
United Kingdom
This causes fits when I try to enter it into the US banking system.
If I were you, I'd call Royal Mail and ask them... or look on their website for postcode lookup as a best practice.
There's different types of addresses, and each different type has a slightly different structure. Forward sorting offices have a different postal address structure than a residential home with a street number. What if the house has a name instead of a number? There are so many factors to consider.
Since I moved to Canada I had to do something similar and it's far more complicated than a straightforward residential address which generally has:
Street Number if applicable
Street Number Suffix if applicable
House Name
Street Name
Street Type
Street Direction if applicable
Unit Number for flats, townhouses or other types of building/location
Minor Municipality (Village)
Major Municipality (Major Town/City)
County
PostCode
Country if you include Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (and now I noticed Eire)
Then you get businesses that have their own Delivery Route, PO Boxes, Forward Sortation Offices...
It gets complicated in a real hurry.
Best bet - give Royal Mail a call and they should be able to give you information on their standard address templates.
EDIT: Your 3 field method isn't a bad one...particularly. However, data sanitization may be a significant issue using the field setup you have and you may need a fairly complex strategy for making sure that the address entered is valid. It's far easier to sanitize single dedicated fields to make sure input is correct than it is to parse various address tokens out of combined fields.
Another simpler way to gain this info is to go on the Royal Mail website and check their postcode lookup page.
On their main postcode lookup, they use 4 fields and I guess they have some form of validation on the street name/type field. They separate the house number and name and I guess they only allow major municipality. I'm assuming the county/country are assumed. If you break out their advanced search, they give you two extra fields for flat number and business name.
Given that some fields are combined on their site, you have to assume that there's some amount of validation to make sure that data entered can be gainfully used.
Premises elements
Sub Building Name
Building Name
Building Number
Organisation Name
Department Name
PO Box Number
Thoroughfare elements
Dependent Thoroughfare Name
Dependent Thoroughfare Descriptor
Thoroughfare Name
Thoroughfare Descriptor
Locality elements
Double Dependent Locality
Dependent Locality
Post Town
Postcode element
Postcode
This answer may be a few years late, but it's aimed at those like myself looking for guidance on how to correctly format postal addresses for both storing in a database (or the likes of it) and for printing purposes.
Taken from Royal Mail Doc, link below - conveniently titled the 'Programmers Guide'
Technical specififcation for users of PAF
Page 27 - 42 was most helpful for me.
It's very likely that a "UK" will be opened to Eire as well, and in some lines of business there will be legal differences, generally between Scotland / NI / the channel islands and England and Wales.
In short, I would add country to the list. Otherwise it's fine (no fewer certainly), though of course any address is traceable from a building reference, a post code and a country alone.
Where we live in France its just 3 lines:-
myname
village/location name
6 digit postcode followed by post town name in uppercase
Even from UK that's all that is required