I would really appreciate some advice on my options for geocoding UK addresses and postcodes accurately.
Basically I am developing a site that is a UK accommodation directory. I want to be able to display the hotels on a map as well as do proximity searches. Currently the site includes an admin page allowing the hotel owner to add the details of their accommodation. My plan was to write some code to use the postcode to calculate an accurate longitude and latitude however from my experiments and what I have read this is not easy! I would therefore appreciate advice on how best I can get an accurate longitude and latitude into my database for each hotel added to the database. I do not mind paying a small amount to achieve this but cannot afford to pay thousands of pounds. I thought I had found a solution using the AJAX local search but have recently read that this is going to stop working. Quote from Pamela from Google: "The more truthful response is that we're working on removing the UK postcodes from the AJAX Search API data, because of the licensing restrictions." As I have to approve each listing added to the site, I could in theory manually retrieve the longitude and latitude data if there was an accurate way to do this? Basically I would like to know my options at this point and find a solution that is not going to break in a few months time. Many thanks Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
