On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (*) 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. > > > But would it be in an acceptable licence? > It's public domain factual information. There is no license. And there will be no license if the data is obtained by a FOIA request. And the USPS is definitely not going to explicitly grant a license. They fought the first request in court, and after losing there they gave a ridiculously inflated cost estimate upon a subsequent request. They don't want this information released. The terms of use seem to prevent us from importing from their web site. > I wouldn't say "prevent" is the proper word. >
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