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Linux Solutions for Zip Codes and Congressional Districts?
davidmcn asks: "There is an overabundance of solutions available for the Microsoft brand of operating systems which allow the mapping of zip-codes to congressional districts. However, I work for a small consulting firm that works primarily with Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL, and would like to find a way to take address information, and create mailings based on Congressional Mappings. Does anyone know of a solution that is available for a linux enviroment? Even something as simple as a list of Congressional Districts and all zip codes underneath them would suffice."
You are indeed on sassy motherfucker -- and spot on. That's what this guy needs, you're correct. And this isn't a "Let's do it on Linux!!!!!!" bullshit solution. This is a fucking GIS issue. What the fucking database has to do with it is a mystery. Great, you want to limit yourself to one OS, one scripting language, and on DB, whatever. Fucking stupid if you ask me, but whatever.
GRASS is a linux GIS program, but it won't do what he want easily, if at all. He needs ArcInfo with Spatial Analyist / ArcGrid. It runs on HP-UX, Solaris, Win2k, and a few others.
That's a stupid fucking reason to *not* use a program -- just because there's 'an overabundance'. Well, they fucking work and if you want to get your shit done, use what works, not what's hip.