You have no idea how happy this makes me. (since you've basically built what I wanted the Upmystreet API to be, and it's free enough for people to *use*)
Stef On 26 Jul , at 16:22:20, Matthew Somerville wrote: > 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 -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +27 82 0431230 (SA) +254 716607737 (KE) smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
