On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think that since we don't have the current data, we can't comment on
> its quality.
>

You can get it from usps.com, you just can't download it in bulk (*).

It's useful to get the general location of the mailbox in order to search
around for it, but I wouldn't put it on a map as a node.

(*) Without writing a script, which, frankly, would be pretty easy to
write.  The US is under 4 million square miles in area.  A search query
provides results in areas up to a 100 mile radius.  A square which fits in
a circle with a 100 mile radius is 20,000 square miles in area.  4 million
divided by 20,000 is 200.  Multiply by two to more than account for areas
which overlap oceans.  So you could get the whole database in 400 queries.
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