Posted by Dylan Parry on 11/28/06 09:40

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> It amazes me that one should have to pay for this information.

You'll probably find (especially in the UK, don't know about elsewhere)
that what you are paying goes towards the wages of the many staff
required to maintain such a database, including the surveyor who has to
go out and geocode each new post/zip code.

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