localized address form

Thanks Thomas, any idea on where Google bought there data from?



On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:23 +0100, Thomas Weidner wrote:
> Several data exist already pre-translated through the getTranslationList() 
> methods.

> These are for example country, language and several others.
> 
> But you will not find data like zip code in there because this is no data 
> which has to be translated.
> The zip code 1234 is always 1234 in every language. 
> 
> Also to mention that these codes are not static. They cange from time to 
> time. What google does is buying this information from companies which are 
> specialized in collecting such data. The same is dome for IP adresses for 
> example.

> 
> This is the reason why you will not find complete data anywhere for free.
> There are several free databases which claim to support xx%... it's just a 
> matter of how perfect you need your data.
> 
> Greetings
> Thomas Weidner, I18N Team Leader
> http://www.thomasweidner.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Anton Visser&quot; < anton.visserhelloecho.com">anton.visserhelloecho.com>
> To: < fw-i18nlists.zend.com">fw-i18nlists.zend.com>

> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:12 PM
> Subject: [fw-i18n] localized address form
> 
> 
> > Hello everyone, I would like to find out if anyone has created a dynamic
> > address form, that changes based on country selected, using the
> > ZF_locale?
> >
> > To be more specific, the form would change the fields and which ones are
> > required, based on country selected.  For instance, Ireland doesn't have
> > a postal/zip code.
> >
> > Google checkout does this, but that would be lots of work to reverse
> > engineer.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Anton
> >
> >
> > 
>