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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:15:55PM +1100, 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.
It'll build itself up automatically with increasing numbers of
patients entered manually. We can build automated ways of
sharing that constraint knowledge anonymously among GnuMed
users.

> > 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.
Well, GnuMed needn't understand the content of the constraint.
But it may very well make use of statistical associations, no ?

If Victoria zip codes are associated with NSW phone prefixes
or the population of storks in New Zealand, so be it. Just mine
the statistics in the real-life data.

Karsten
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