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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 16:55:21 +0000,
  Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com> wrote:
> 
> I for one would be very interested in such a web service (I'd really like a 
> address / street lookup to find lat/longs for addresses, but thats not likely 
> to happen).

Its already there for the US. A guy did this for last year's Google
contest. I have plans to add it to a web site I run to enable boardgame players
to find other boardgame players within a certian distance.