On 09/01/2011 12:01 AM, Stephen Hope wrote:
On 1 September 2011 11:41, Nathan Edgars II<[email protected]> wrote:
In the US, the problem is that address place names depend on which post
office serves the area, and there is no freely available accurate data
showing this. Many suburban areas outside Orlando city limits have Orlando
in the address, and there are some cases where a place in city A uses an
address that is not city A.
That's interesting, and a bit weird to me. Here, post offices open,
close, move around, merge and split - and it makes no difference to my
address.
I've lived to places in the USA where I could not be called to Jury
duty... because the Court sent notices based a naive address match, but
the property was actually in a different jurisdiction.
Note that the USPS recently lost a freedom of information act fight, and
was forced to share post box data. Perhaps other data can be FOI'ed out
of them.
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