RE: [backstage] Postcoder

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RE: [backstage] Postcoder

At 15:54 + 21/11/06, Kim Plowright wrote: Interesting fact about Postcoder: It has the concept of 'imaginary places' in the data model, so that, frinstance, Ambridge or Albert Square can have a postcode. (one day, I'll show you the data model for fictional vs real life people, which *doesn'

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

Barry Hunter wrote: [I sent this yesterday, but not from the address subscribed to the list :( ] On 17/11/06, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Peter Bowyer > On 16/11/06, Dave Cross wrote: >> <> >> >> >> Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to convert postcodes >> to lat/long? It seems

re: [backstage] Postcoder

[I sent this yesterday, but not from the address subscribed to the list :( ] On 17/11/06, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Peter Bowyer > On 16/11/06, Dave Cross wrote: >> <> >> >> >> Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to convert postcodes to >> lat/long? It seems to me that the Google

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I was going to jot down a few links, and some of the problems (ie. the Royal Mail) but Simon just posted a run down, which at least saved my typing fingers. http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2006/11/17/postcode A few useful links on there. G On 17/11/06, Gavin Montague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

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 = "http://maps.goog

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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' requir

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

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 Pos

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

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 t

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use the google ajax search api, http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/, you can search for post codes and it returns a town name and some lat/lng values - not sure how accurate/precise it is On 16/11/06, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: best I can do ,... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/st

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best I can do ,... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?GridConvert?name=529811,189466&type=OSGrid 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 p

[backstage] Postcoder

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 talk about releasing the API as part of Backstage

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