Re: [Gnumed-devel] get(All)Adresses()

[David Grant]

Ian Haywood wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:07:49PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  
>
> > zip -> constraint on city -> constraint on street
> >    
>         ^^^^^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>         Yes.                 Only if we have access to the phonebook
>                              High Court ruled in '02 that the AU
>                              phonebook is copyrightable, so no.
>
>  
>
> > zip -> constraint on phone prefix
> >    
> Not really. area codes are assigned by Telstra which often don't 
> correspond with Australia Post. E.g. Wodonga on the Victoria-NSW border,
> has Victorian postcode, but shares an exchange with the larger
> Albury in NSW.
>
> Typical anglo-saxon disorganisation I'm afraid ;-)
>
>  
Area codes within Vancouver and Toronto are also no longer associated 
with geography, which is why there is 10 digit dialing in those places 
now.  It was a lower-cost option.


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