Anthere wrote:
--- koyaanisqatsi@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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