farhad@corwin.usc.edu (Farhad Khansefid) (02/20/88)
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