[Wikipedia-l] 80,000

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthere wrote:

>--- koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:
>
>>Anthere wrote:
>>
>>>>I don't mind Ram-Man's bot so much, but I'd like to
>>>>
>>>>find an equivalent resource for towns *outside* of
>>>>
>>>>the U.S.
>>>>
>>>40.000 french postal codes ???
>>>
>>You'll have to explain that to me.  What's a postal
>>code?  Is that the same as a city?  In the U.S. we
>>frequently have a dozen or more postal codes in a
>>single city.  Anyway, if the entries would be more
>>than a paragraph apiece and they seem like
>>information that somebody might reasonably look for,
>>then I don't see what's wrong with including it.
>>
>ah, a postal code is similar to zipcodes in the us, or
>areacode in England (except those are very very
>accurate compared to ours). We have 36 679 communes.
>It is entirely related to postoffices localisation
>only. Most big cities (big communes) have several
>zipcodes (such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille), but a code
>postal can also be in relation with several small
>communes (in short, that's not a bijection relation at
>all, so it's a bit messy).
>
If somebody is really interested in postal codes the site 
http://www.escapeartist.com/global10/zip.htm has links to how the matter 
is treated in a large range of countries.

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