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From: farhad@corwin.usc.edu (Farhad Khansefid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: software to calculate mileage between to addresses (query)
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Date: 19 Feb 88 16:25:28 GMT
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Hi,

I have heard of a software beeing sold in computer stores that will
calculate the street mileage (not necessarily a straight line) when
given two addresses in a metropolitan area. Different versions exist
for big cities.

My question is does anyone have further information on this. Is there
something in public domain?

I think creating the database for this program is a monumental effort 
and hence do not think that the people who wrote the software actually
created the database. I believe they just wrote a front end interface
for the program and actually got the database from some other source,
most probably a government agency that puts out these kind of infor-
mation for free or at nominal cost

what do you think?

please respond directly to 	farhad@corwin.usc.edu