Re: Zip code database?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Jan 1, 2008 2:42 PM, Mark Woodward <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Yea, the ZCTA database is more or less the one that I already have it 
> comes from TIGER 2000. It is missing something like ~400 zip codes and 
> lacks "alias" information like Dorchester instead of Boston. 
> 
> Your store finder is cool, we did something like it for a project a few 
> years back, but if you use the raw ZCTA names, you won't be able to look 
> for streets by canonical city names like Dorchester, Hyde Park, 
> Manhattan, etc. 
> 
> What database do you use? I wrote a number of geographical/spherical 
> routines for PostgreSQL.