On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sorry for the delay in replying!
>
> Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>
>> if you are randomly on the street, how often do you know the exact
>> postcode (as in X00 0XX) you're standing in, if you're not actually
>> on your front doorstep?
>>
>
> Exactly, which is why FixMyStreet accepts strings for geocoding as well,
> for which it uses the Google Maps API. I assume using that might be a
> possibility, and for postcodes too (though the API doesn't return precise
> results for postcodes, we use CodePoint internally).
>
>
Thank you. FYI, I think I've mostly got the bugs out of the GPS version, but
I need to do all the packaging and Symbian signing crapola before seriously
testing it.
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