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Doug
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Can WebFOCUS Do This? Get State Name from Longitude and Latitude, from within a fex?

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By default WF can't do this unless you have something like ESRI intalled.

I think its going to come down to what data you have or calls you can make.


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Danny-SRL
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You could create a file with the 50 states and the NW/SE coordinates of each. Retrieval should be feasible after.
If you do, publish the file...


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Wep5622
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If you have a geospatial database, you can create queries that return polygons by name.

Your points (long./lat.) would be contained in such polygons, and that's how you know that, for example, (40.727417 , -73.795853) is in Queens, New York, New York State, USA, with those as 4 separate rows in this example.

Such databases can contain all kinds of polygons, for states, countries, regions, districts, areas, biotopes, etc.

A geospatial database is usually just a relational database, with added functions, operators & data types to deal with points and polygons and overlaps, distance calculations, etc.


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We actually have a geojson file, located in the following location, that has all the major cities and states and their lat/lng. We also use a CSV with the information on look up, but had to get IBI to come in and create the map, because we could never get it to work. Took them a week and 3 people involded from IBI. Not an easy solution.

\ibi\WebFOCUS81\config\web_resource\map\state_city.geojson



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Doug
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Thanks everyone... I'll check out these options...
 
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you can get from one of the zip code sites or from the usps (can't remember which , now, just know I have done it), the lat-long of each zip centroid. if you start with a latlong, you can find the closest lat-long combination in that zip file. probably don't need to do the trig, since your distances will be small. This is a fun project, I did something like this in my elie tahari days with all our stores and outlets. I guess you're doing all your stores as well.
try the US census bureau, I know the file is in the public domain.



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