--- koyaanisqatsi(a)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).
has links to how the matter
is treated in a large range of countries.
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