Posted by Jeff North on 05/26/07 14:48

On Sat, 26 May 2007 08:43:03 +0100, in comp.lang.php Toby A Inkster
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<715li4-pom.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk> wrote:

>| 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.

2034 COOGEE
2034 SOUTH COOGEE

2035 MAROUBRA
2035 MAROUBRA SOUTH
2035 PAGEWOOD

>| 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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