On 06/10/2010 14:11, Paul Waring wrote:
I'm currently working on something similar which will effectively be an API which makes a call to Mapit (either the MySociety one or a local install) and then adds place name data.For example, for M13 9PL you might get back: [mapit data] placename: { area: "Manchester", country: "England" } The place name data is pulled from a database which has columns like this: Postcode Regex | Area | Country ------------------------------------- M13 * | Manchester | England The hard part is populating the place name database - I'm aiming to scrape wikipedia for the post towns to begin with and then gradually refine the results over time.
I think Wikipedia might be a solution to my problem, as well. If we start from the assumption that only villages and small towns have parish councils, then the Wikipedia lists of civil parishes could be used to cross reference with the OS Gazetteer to generate a reverse geocodable list of village names.
Mark -- http://mark.goodge.co.uk _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
