Regional Address Book, US

To lower the Government data access requirements for small shops and individuals, I have compiled an XML Data Base of Regions (County Equivalents) for the US and Puerto Rico.  I hope it will be used as an application coverage starting point.  An example of the output is here [1], just two Counties in North Texas and a couple of local schools.  A zip file with the example and complete data base (nick.xml) is in the same directory as geocard.zip [2].  CC Public Domain Mark


The advantage to this scheme is that application coverage can be scaled up by simply adding regions.  Time Zones and County Warning Areas which overlap have already been joined.


Once these "Personal Regional Address Books" are made, it's an easy matter to get Weather Information in XML, and other information, sunrise, sunset, etc. can be added to that.  A daemon to fetch the current forecast is all the 'development' work necessary.   I'll publish the Weather XML (dwml) transforms within about a week.


--Gannon

[1] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/pab/ or http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o
[2] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/geocard.zip