[rescue] hrm.

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

At 3:44 PM -0400 8/22/01, joshua d boyd wrote:

>
>Speaking of GIS and women (and general computing), my mom needs a system
>for dealing with rather complex route planning issues.
>
>Specifically, she has a list of about 200 address (she gets a new list
>every month, and the length will be growing somewhat over time), and needs
>to find them all on a map, then group them geographically into clusters
>that can all be reached in one day, with each location in the cluster
>being stopped at for about 45 minutes to an hour.

If the addresses have zipcodes, then there is a freeware solution involving
PostgreSQL, a US Census mapping of zipcodes --> locations, and some other
free code.  Check techdocs.postgresql.org and then follow the link to the
"Postgresql Cookbook" by Mello.

Cordially
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Patrick Giagnocavo
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