Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Wayne Lee > Sent: 09 January 2011 11:20 > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage > > The Virgin network map is here > > ht

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Benjie Gillam
What I would do, I think, is have a map (e.g. google map), click on a location and say "is their cable here?". It would then find the nearest postcode to that lat/lng and query VirginMedia.com to see if cable is in that area. I did this manually when I was house hunting recently, looked up in the r

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Lisi > Sent: 09 January 2011 11:08 > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage > > It hadn't occurred to me that he wanted it

[Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting: January 15 at Southampton University

2011-01-09 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
Hi, This is your one week notice, our first meeting of the year will take place at the University of Southampton in the normal room on SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2011, between 10:00 and 17:00. I would like to thank Robin Wilson for arranging the room for us. I will update the wiki after my morning bik

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Wayne Lee
The Virgin network map is here http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/files/tlw105-VRB.html Wayne -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk ---

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 09 January 2011 10:45:30 Philip Stubbs wrote: > It sounded like the original poster wanted to provide some sort of > service. I got the impression that he was wanting to create a map showing the various criteria he wanted to take into account when moving house. " Which location has all

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Robin Wilson
Alternatively, you can get it free and legally (although subject to some terms and conditions) from the Ordnance Survey OpenData initiative. See Code Point Open on this page: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html Robin On 9 Jan 2011, at 10:37, Benjie Gillam wrote: >

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 9 January 2011 10:37, Benjie Gillam wrote: > The UK post code database is out there on the net, you just have to look :) > I'd guess a name for the 2009 post code database might be along the lines of > uk-post-code-2009? And perhaps, due to size, it might be bz2 compressed...? > Benjie. It sou

Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage

2011-01-09 Thread Benjie Gillam
The UK post code database is out there on the net, you just have to look :) I'd guess a name for the 2009 post code database might be along the lines of uk-post-code-2009? And perhaps, due to size, it might be bz2 compressed...? Benjie. On 9 January 2011 00:36, Vic wrote: > > > I think the prob