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/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 > 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. But there were licensing problems. > > So I just thought I'd ask if those licensing problems were any nearer to > being solved and whether the Postcoder API was any closer to being made > public. > > Or, failing that, what other tools do people use to convert postcodes to > lat/long? It seems to me that the Google Maps GeoCoder object doesn't > understand UK postcodes. > > Cheers, > > Dave... > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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