Thread: RRGAS - Gas prices for the US - Status: Updated 12/01/10

I re-did sonicxtacy's gasnav so that it will work with this RRGAS plugin.
here is a link to the thread.
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/rr-p...nav-rrgas.html

have you had a chance to try the rrgas_gps command though?

This is supposed to use the current Lat and Lon to find the zipcode to find the results.

I cant get my WIFI working in the car, I am going to take another crack at it today.
Do I need a ZIP.DAT in my rr folder for the zip codes?
If so, where do I get it?

Originally Posted by ThunderStick

Do I need a ZIP.DAT in my rr folder for the zip codes?
If so, where do I get it?

I was thinking that might be it... hmm...

here's a post john made about the zips.dat:

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

the data mentioned above is roughly 70 megs. Thats quite a drag on the system if you have it set to fire the locate command every 60 seconds.

So on a typical 2 hour drive, you are reading 8.4 Gigs from the hard drive.... This should chew up the hard drive pretty fast, as well as probably really slowing the system down a bit.

The compilation of new sources to make the zips.dat more accurate, was not done by enforcer. Wiredwrx put it together, and posted it in the DigitalFX 2.0 thread. You can find it here in post #1945

In post #1960 BlueZX3 creates separate files for each state. This way you can just copy and paste whatever ones you want into the zips.dat file. This can really speed it up when it accesses as it only reads a couple states you put together that you drive frequently, and not all 8 megs with 50 states plus Puerto Rico.

Then in post 1972 meisner wrote a script to take the individual state.dat files and create a zips.dat file of the states that you want.

The in post 1976 meisner created a GUI for the zips.dat builder. Check the states you want, click go, and it creates a zips.dat with the info from the selected states.


In post 1963 Sonic makes mention of movie times (Done since that posting) and local news headlines.... I would like to the see the news one

I tried that, and still no go...

I'm really surprised that sonic, mgd, and john haven't had anything to comment with the 1.4 unreleased version and getting the gps zip code. PM sent about a week ago, along with this thread.... If I'm the only one, then I need to find out what is wrong, if we are all having an issue, then E will need to fix it before release.

Can someone send me these files to charles.richards@usa.net

I am trying to update my year old skin. I have all the code changes made just need the file to test.

Thx Chuck




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It might be worth the wait for just a couple more days, when E returns, he will probably release version 1.4 (in beta testing now)

And per E's request, you can only download the file from his download page.

this is a fly by visit as just got in from airport (4.45am here)

zip.dat is NOT required.



Chuck, your account is now activated.