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Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences


From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 12 Apr 2016 11:55:57 -0000

In article <20160411191347.GC4087 () excession tpb net> you write:
* baldur.norddahl () gmail com (Baldur Norddahl) [Mon 11 Apr 2016, 21:02 CEST]:
They should stop giving out coordinates on houses period. Move the
coordinate to the nearest street intersection if you need to be that
precise (I would prefer nearest town square). Anything more than that
should be illegal.

That's going to make USPS's and FedEx's lives a lot harder.

Please don't guess (like, you know, MaxMind does.)  USPS has its own
database of all of the deliverable addresses in the country.  They
have their problems, but give or take data staleness as buildings
are built or demolished, that's not one of them.

R's,
John


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