[capital_guy]

Yes, and the flip side of that is you require people to have and use Google accounts to access public data? That’s not exactly ideal.

[tonymet]

And at what cost. Why are we paying for customers to query this data in realtime?

So someone can host a ripoff NPS app on the App Store and taxpayers now pay for content hosting?

[dylan604]

The USPS provides a free service for address validation. You have to register an account and receive an access token. If they feel your token is using too much, they can handle it as necessary. Why this same concept couldn't be done in the same way is just lack of imagination.

You can access for free, but if you abuse or break the TOS your access is revoked. Done

[tonymet]

USPS is a corporation with profit and loss. I still consider this irresponsible but theoretically I'm not paying for their largesse

[tonymet]

Fine host it as CSV as a backup for the luddites.