ash wrote: > Horst Herb wrote: >> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 20:13, Tim Churches wrote: >>> 500,000 records and have gone to 1 million), we now use the US Bureau of >>> the Census files at http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames.html - >>> these have univariate frequencies associated with each name so that >>> probability-based selection can be used (albeit probabilities and names >> >> wonderful! >> >> And I have the Aussie postcode database from >> http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes/index.asp?sub=2 >> >> I guess I can generate "random" birthdates programmatically and even >> probabilistically weigh their frequency according to Aussie demographics >> >> What's lacking now is a street database ... >> >> Any ideas where to get such data from?
There are about 600 real street names in the generate.py utility I mentioned, I think. > can you harvest them from white pages ? Those street names might have well been laboriously harvested from the White Pages. In the past one could buy an electronic version of the White Pages for just a few hundred dollars, before such things were taken off the market due to changes in the telecommunications regulations and copyright challenges by Telstra (and a good thing too, as they were the stuff of telemarketers' dreams) Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
