Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-17 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 16/11/06, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when I was working on Postcoder earlier this year there was lots of

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Cross
Quoting Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 16/11/06, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when I was working on

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-17 Thread Gavin Montague
It is possible to make the conversion through Google, but I doubt it's really within the rules. Purely as a thought-experiment (cough), a wee ruby script that you might be able to use. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby # # Example # ./pofinder G38DN # 55.866061 -4.273608 # require 'rubygems' require

RE: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-17 Thread Ian Forrester
It would be great if we could personalise the T-shirts but then we would need to raise the licence fee :) Maybe someone might consider adding the tag cloud idea to threadless.com? Cheers Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-17 Thread Gavin Montague
Purely as a thought-experiment (cough), a wee ruby script that you might be able to adapt. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby # # Example # ./pofinder G38DN # 55.866061 -4.273608 # require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new postcode = ARGV[0] begin gmap_url =

RE: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-17 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi Jonathan a pity to exclude the individuals other than BBC, but perhaps that's what you get paid for... still google, yahoo and secondlife get a look in, can't say why though... --- Well in the usual BBC way, I don't see a problem with including Yahoo, Google, etc on the T-shirt. It's the

RE: [backstage] Web API issue with Radio Four?

2006-11-17 Thread Pete Cole
Hi Andrew, Thanks - World Service is working for me, as are all the unicast streams returned by the API. Pete. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew McParland Sent: 17 November 2006 12:42 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk