I was going to jot down a few links, and some of the problems (ie. the Royal Mail) but Simon just posted a run down, which at least saved my typing fingers.
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2006/11/17/postcode A few useful links on there. G On 17/11/06, Gavin Montague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Purely as a thought-experiment (cough), a wee ruby script that you might be able to adapt. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby # # Example # >./pofinder G38DN # >55.866061 -4.273608 # require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new postcode = ARGV[0] begin gmap_url = "http://maps.google.com/maps?q="+postcode.gsub(' ', "+") gmap = agent.get(gmap_url).root.to_s; rescue puts "Cannot derive coordinates for that postcode" end if matches = /lat:\s*(-?[0-9\.]+),\s*lng:\s*(-?[0-9\.]+)/.match(gmap) latitude = matches[1] longitude = matches[2] printf("%s %s\n", latitude, longitude) end On 16 Nov 2006, at 23:00, Dave Cross wrote: > > I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to > convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder > would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when I was working > on Postcoder earlier this year there was lots of talk about > releasing the API as part > of Backstage. But there were licensing problems. > > So I just thought I'd ask if those licensing problems were any > nearer to being solved and whether the Postcoder API was any closer > to being made public. > > Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to convert > postcodes to lat/long? It seems to me that the Google Maps GeoCoder > object doesn't understand UK postcodes. > > Cheers, > > Dave... > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ > mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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