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Originally Posted by martin
That's right, as I said all we have to work with is numbers. For the majority of cases this is ok.
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Yes; the concept is certainly a great idea. The problem is that the cases that fail could make it unusable. For example, my friend in Strathpine is not going to want to be directed to the Arana Hills pizza location. So he'll probably not want to use the non-geo lookup at all. Unless we check each 13 number we want to use before the first time we dial it, we won't know if it's going to come up with the right answer.
It seems the lookup needs more information than just the number range - something like a latitude/longitude reference for the exchange - that could then be used for location proximity; even then I don't know if number ranges are tied to physical exchanges these days. And I don't know how feasible it would be implement, anyway. But I imagine such information exists somewhere.