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Posted by Brian Cryer on 11/27/06 11:09
"Dylan Parry" <usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote in message
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> Rob Waaijenberg wrote:
>
>> How many codes you think France, Germany or the United Kingdom wil have?
>
> Just as an indication; I work with map and address data regularly, and I
> currently have a UK postcode database containing 1635104 (yep, 1.6
> *million*) records.
and the list grows even bigger if you include historic UK postcodes (which
is useful if you are using historic data and are using postcode as a
locator). As well as adding new postcodes each year they also retire some -
possibly reusing them later but I'm not sure on that.
I think your figure for postcodes in the UK is probably the number in
England. The figures I have (from a PAF export Oct 2006) is 1.6 million for
England, 180 thousand for Scotland, 106 thousand for Wales. Either way, its
still a big number!
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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