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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/26/07 07:43
Jeff North wrote:
> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>
>> This might be OK in Australia, where postal codes cover
>> fairly large populations,
>
> Where did you get this silly idea from? Our major cities do have
> sub-divisions called suburbs. Maybe you've heard of them.
And suburbs (at least in Sydney, where I lived for over half my life)
roughly match up with postcodes. For example, the 2034 code covers Coogee,
2035 Maroubra and so on. However, suburb boundaries are fuzzy, whereas
postcode boundaries are well-defined; whatsmore while different people
might give different names to the same place, the four-digit postcode is
unarguable.
So in Australia, postcodes might work well as a standardised sub-state
geographic division. In other countries, it's less useful.
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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