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My dad always enthused about the Canadian system which is based on a six-character string that is closer to Battleship-style coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.o
by wallflower 14y ago
My dad always enthused about the Canadian system which is based on a six-character string that is closer to Battleship-style coordinates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada#Components_of_a_postal_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada#Componen...
- coob 14y agoYeah, wonder where they got that from… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom
- pacaro 14y agoAaah, fond memories. The first hard algorithmic coding task I worked on was to generate isoclines of UK Postcodes from point cloud address data. Fortunately I didn't have to do the entire country, only a couple of million addresses, unfortunately it had to work on a machine running Windows 3.1 with only 4MiB of RAM....