Posted by Geoff Berrow on 11/28/06 10:05
Message-ID: <4t2efvF123t2cU2@mid.individual.net> from Dylan Parry
contained the following:
>> 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.
Oh if only that were true. I imagine, like road tax, that it just goes
to the treasury.
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