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[aprssig] ZipCodes Tip

Robert Bruninga bruninga at usna.edu
Sun Sep 5 16:34:13 UTC 2004

While visiting a distant area without a GPS,  I wanted
to enter a vague position in the area into my D7 so that 
friends would know I was in town and not 1000 miles

Now I realize most APRS programs have the ZIPCODE 
data base (at least APRSdos does), so we could have
defined a LAT/LONG of 0000.00/00ZZZ.ZZ to be a
way to encode position by ZIP code.  Then just a quick
look at the nearest business address would have given me 
position data good enough for that purpose.

Just a thought.  
Question is where would the conversion be made...

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