On Jan 19, 12:12 pm, Leads <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > Hope I'm not covering old ground.
Well... you used the Group web form for your post. Did you look at any of the suggestions the system made in the right-hand column? > Is there any way I can convert all of these postcodes to long/lat in > bulk? Any system I can buy or code out there? You can buy the Royal Mail PAF, but for 300 that's probably a bit expensive. There are a couple of problems with your situation: (a) the API doesn't geocode UK postcodes at all accurately, because of the PAF licence restrictions; (b) Google's Terms of Service don't allow bulk access to data. Barry has a download available at http://www.nearby.org.uk/downloads.html which will get reasonably close in many cases. The blog post you referenced is rather old. Google *did* release accurate UK postcode geocoding in the API, but then realised their mistake in breaching the PAF licence and withdrew it. > Of course, I could do it one by one, by hand, but that is a last > resort. If you want premise-level accuracy, it's probably the only way to do it, and not via the API. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
