JSON + Zip Code + $0 = How Much Info?
December 8th, 2009
Armed with a budget of $0, I decided to spend an hour or two last night trying to accumulate as much data as possible using only a zip code, a static HTML page, and some javascript. Not a single dollar was spent, nor a single image created. The page is up here.
I’m sure I’ll add to this project as I find more free data sources, but so far I have:
- Location Name
- Lat/Lng of Zip Center
- Weather Info
- Forecast Data (4 day)
- Recent Earthquakes within 100 miles
- Local Wiki Entries (5)
If you have any XML or JSON data source suggestions that take LAT/LNG or Zip Code as parameters, email me at christopher[ at ]dittoditto.com and I’ll add them to the page.
