RepFinder: USPS and Congressional Data Mashup

Nerding on February 22nd, 2009 1 Comment

Last fall I had an business idea for the nonprofit and cause advocacy – allow people to look up their representatives through all levels of government with their address.  I did some sleuthing, found that the service was possible, and that already existed in several forms.  Most prominently, the CapWiz product from Capitol Advantage.  I [...]

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Open Source USPS Address Validation?

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on November 15th, 2008 No Comments

I’ve been looking for open source address validation code for an application I’m working on.  I’ve learned a bit about how the data is structured, including that there are a set of companies which are ‘CASS Certified’ to offer these services. For $35, you get a script designed to work with the USPS WebTools API.  [...]

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