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15 Amazing and Abysmal Man-Made Islands

September 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in articles

 

 

 
When we think of islands, our minds are aflutter with images of sandy beaches, fruity cocktail and waiters with accents who inexplicably wear white tuxes. And yet, not all islands are such wonders of nature. Some are wonders of human ingenuity, and others are blunders of the highest degree — not even fit for a swallow to rest its weary wing upon. So do yourself a favor and check this list of amazing and abysmal manmade islands before Apple copyrights the word ‘island’ for its new slander-detecting software.
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Best and Worst Game Maps of All Time

September 10th, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in articles

As video game technology advances, the worlds created to be the playgrounds of sadistic manchildren become ever more complex and disturbingly realistic.  Sometimes these game maps recreate vast sprawling cities populated with hordes of people and stunning architecture.  Then sometimes they recreate vast, sprawling, unremarkable and formless blobs of landscape — the likes of which you haven’t seen since visiting your parents in the suburbs.
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Free Zip Code Database

June 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in database, downloads, free stuff

We have had TONS of requests to provide people with the zip code database that we have been building and working on since like 2003… So here you go.

The database includes the following fields intermixed in all kinds of ways so that you don’t have to worry about manipulating the data. It has zip codes, cities, states, counties, latitude, longitude, state abbreviations and more.

The data is even in proper case, so you don’t have to worry about that either. Check out the video to get it free.

The file is in excel format and has many sheets that each break down different data in different ways:

  • All Cities In USA
  • All Counties In USA
  • All Zip Codes In USA
  • Latitude and Longitude of Cities/Zip Codes
  • States and State Abbreviations

So if you’d like to get your hands on it free, email info |at-sign| zipcodeguy.com use the form below to get instructions on linking to our site.

Prior to sending you the database we ask that you write up a quick blog post about the zip code maps that we sell on our site along with a link. Email us the location of the link and we’ll email you the link to the database… Bada Bing… Bodda Boom!

The database is over 27 MB, so we cannot email it to you, we will email you the link.

You can also buy it for about 25 bucks below.


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Flash Map Development Contest Coming Soon!

May 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in contests

We can’t get into details just yet… but stay tuned for a Flash Map development contest that’s coming soon!

We’ll get the details out, but in the mean time, subscribe so you can keep up to date!