Dear Matthew, Sorry to take advantage of your email, but I've been talking to Martin Stephenson who runs StreetReport. He is offering to include a link to Report Empty Homes on his app. He asked whether there is a Report Emptyhomes test site he cold use. I seem to remember there was one, does it still exist? Best Wishes David David Ireland | Chief Executive Empty Homes
T: 020 7022 1867 | W: www.emptyhomes.com 1 London Bridge, Downstream Building, SE1 9BG Empty Homes is the operating name for Empty Homes Agency Limited. Registered in England as a charitable Industrial and Provident Society No. 27697R -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Somerville [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 26 July 2010 15:22 To: Public Subject: [mySociety:public] Point/postcode lookup Hi, Today we've launched our public postcode/point lookup service: http://mapit.mysociety.org/ The launch blog post is at http://www.mysociety.org/2010/07/26/mapping-points-and-postcodes/ but I'll just mention the main selling points again here. It covers the whole UK, including Northern Ireland, yet is still open data under an attribution licence. The ONS dataset including Northern Ireland cost us £200 as a data supply charge, so if anyone thinks that a free public postcode lookup that includes Northern Ireland is a nice thing to have and would like to donate to the charity that runs mySociety, please feel free :) https://secure.mysociety.org/donate/ It can do precise point lookup, not just postcodes; it can return actual co-ordinates of boundaries in a variety of formats; and it has both pre- and post-election Westminster boundaries (and as council boundaries etc. change in future, it will still keep the old versions of those too, I hope). The site is written in GeoDjango on a PostGIS database, and the source code is available at http://github.com/mysociety/mapit - it's currently already used by FixMyStreet and I'll be switching our other sites over to using it in the near future. If anyone has any questions about how it works or similar, please do ask. :-) 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
