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I agree with Jim. We use Worksright software for 400 stuff but have not yet interfaced it with the web system.

Why reinvent the wheel when they have those files already setup? And yes, in some states the zip code may not matter. It usually is pretty rare but it does happen. Some software systems use a "GEOCODE" to pinpoint it down to the finest detail. Vertex Software comes to mind for that.

Eric

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Scanning for similar cities


Do the taxing districts span zip code (i think i remember that from years
ago)?
Even city name may not be enough. Your web order process may need the
user to be prompted for a specific area, or to use an address verification
package (i use Worksright in a web order entry) and have to prompt the
web user if address match not found. It returns a city name and some other
info that should nail down taxing.
jim franz

----- Original Message ----- From: <steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: Scanning for similar cities


OK this one is a bit wierd.

We get some web orders and the city field is sometimes including the
county, e.g. there is Houston, there is Houston Harrison. The harder cases
might be for a city that is made up of 2 names to being w/ such as San
Antonio.  I built a logical by city but in some cases it gets subdivided.

The only issue is, how does the program know that there is a problem?

The need is for summarizing state taxes, for those of you familiar, Texas
has separate tax codes by city and county.

The user does her tallying by city tho.
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