Zip / Postal Codes

Your locator's database come with over 42,000 USA zip codes, and if you buy Canadian Postal Codes, that will add another 800,000 codes to your database.

In order to control such a large amount of zip code data, we have two tools that will help you.

Zip Code Manager:
The Zip Code Manager Tool is here for searching your database for a specific zip code. It allows you to enter any code, then it will search the entire database to see if that code exist. If it does, it will pull up an editor page where you will see the zip code, latitude and longitude coordinates for that zip code. You can also edit the info if needed.

If the zip code is not found, it will tell you so in an error message. If you know for sure the zip code should exist, you can also 'Add New'.

Import Zip Codes:
Let's say you want to offer proximity searches for a country other than the United States. You will need to obtain the postal codes dataset for that particular country. For example, Canada. If you wish to allow your website visitors to search Canadian locations via a postal code search and you want your locator to search a radius and list the results by distance, then you will need to import all Canadian Postal Codes. (You can buy that dataset from us) Once you get your hands on the dataset, you can use this Import Zip Codes Tool to import the postal codes into your database.

Option 1 will show you any files that are found inside the /dbackup/zipdata folder. You can select any of the files to import. You can also chose to perform option 2, which will allow you to select a new file on your computer and import it.

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