[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Zipdy

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V. Alex Brennen <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Zipdy
System name: zipdy
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Zipdy, is a series of GPL\'d scripts and C programs which stores
zip codes along with longitude and latitude points in the 
postgres RDBMS.  Zipdy allows organizations and companies to 
build web sites that includes features such as \"return all
records in the database within X miles of y zip code.\"  Zipdy
is a reimplementation of a commercial product.  Zipdy relies
on public domain US Census data for it\'s longitude and latitude
points.

My project already exists.  It is being used by about 20 web sites.
The main project page is:  http://www.cryptnet.net/fsp/zipdy/
The FreshMeat page is:  http://freshmeat.net/projects/zipdy/

The project is more or less in maintenance mode.

I\'ve released two versions of Zipdy so far.  1.0.0, which used 
1990 census data and 2.0.0, which used year 2000 census data.  
Because Zipdy is GPL\'d I\'ve gotten a number of patch submissions
including Visual Basic code so that Zipdy can be used on windows,
SQL code to support the MySQL database, and code for speeding 
up and improving Zipdy.  Sometime this month or next, I plan
to take all of the patches apply them and release a version 3.0.0
of Zipdy which will run on Unix and Microsoft operating systems.