The advantage of this (for non-parliamentary info) is it returns info about the ward, council, councillors, etc, as well as a nuber of standadr identifiers for them (e.g. Snac codes, ONS codes, CIPFA codes, etc)
------------------------------------------------------- OpenlyLocal :: Making Local Government More Transparent http://openlylocal.com Blog: http://countculture.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/CountCulture On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably the easiest way to do local lookups right now is OpenlyLocal's > postcode lookup (in html, xml or json): > > > http://openlylocal.com/areas/search?postcode=dh14lr&submit=Search+by+postcode > > -t > > > On 19/05/10 14:19, Matthew Somerville wrote: > >> Mark Bell wrote: >> >>> An accurate postcode search (AFAIK) isn't free so to limit our costs we >>> haven't done it. Not to say we wouldn't if we found a way though.. >>> >> >> Ordnance Survey released Great British postcode data (mapping postcode -> >> co-ordinates) for free under an attribution licence in April. Services using >> this already exist such as the (slightly misnamed) uk-postcodes.com, >> which you could use or roll your own lookup. I hope to be able to open up >> mySociety's along with an upgrade to our entire area geometry handling in >> the future. >> >> ATB, >> Matthew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > --
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