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Originally Posted by LincolnForums

This site will give exact cordinates. dont know if it was mentioned in here anywhere or not

http://www.maporama.com/share/

maporama was not mentioned here but other simular sites.

Problem is I cannot bother everyone with a huge more geocode database on every install.

To give you an example only to service Belgium the data is about 798 Mb. So as long as nobody has a spare Oracle DB server or something this is just not feasible.

If we have a webservice fine, I could also leach on google servers and parse an address string from them but that is illegal.

So can I solved, yes. by creating a commercial one where you buy a webservice license for geocoding. But not just of the top of my hat, voodoo magic. The coding itself is "relatively" simple.

zipcodes alone won't do the trick because all your users in the same region will have the same marker. In maporama terms you need a PointAddress Web Service (Convert a physical address into latitude/longitude coordinates). I'm looking for a good free one but haven't found a good one yet. Moreover this causes privacy issues and coppa problems. So you have to be really careful when creating such a map.