lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) (11/01/90)
In article <14161@accuvax.nwu.edu> dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) writes: >In article <14148@accuvax.nwu.edu>, george@wciu.edu (George Peavy) writes: > [assorted discussions of criss-cross, Polk, etc. directories deleted] Along the same lines, I've traveled to a couple of cities (I _think_ St. Louis, MO was one) where the telephone book included a one-page reference that translated the centrex number to a city map (i.e. you want to know what part of the city 234-xxxx is in, so you look in the table, and it says "234 ... area 17" so you look at the map, and there's a little squiggly shape with 17 marked in it.) This is something that I have often wanted (yes, we all get a feel for this in our hometowns after long enough, but a definitive reference would be nice.) Is there any particular reason most (assumption) telcos don't publish one of these? Is this one of those things (like so many telco things) that if I just knew the right name for it I could ask my account rep for one and she'd hand it to me? Laird P. Broadfield UUCP: {akgua, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!lairdb INET: lairdb@crash.cts.com [Moderator's Note: Illinois Bell prints lists of all exchanges in the 312/708 area codes, along with prefixes in 815/219/414 within this LATA in their phone directories, with a reference to where it is in the city, or which suburb handles it. PAT]
rnewman@uunet.uu.net (Ron Newman) (11/07/90)
New England Telephone doesn't publish a map, but their Boston-area white pages do have four pages of listings matching the first three digits of any Massachusetts phone number (area codes 413, 508, and 617) to a city, town, or subdistrict of Boston. The table entries look like this: Code Location 221 Burlington 223 Boston 427 Roxbury ... and so on. To the phone company, "Boston" is a very small district comprising downtown, Back Bay, and some very close-in neighborhoods (North End, South End, West End); the rest of the city is divided into smaller, well-known districts like "Mattapan", "Dorchester", "Brighton", and "Roxbury". Another page of the book lists all towns and subdistricts in the Boston area, and which exchanges are found in them. I know that the phone companies in Los Angeles publish similiar information in the front of their directories; I'm surprised to read that every U.S. phone company doesn't do this! Ron Newman