On 25/03/12 00:25, Richard Ive wrote:
Hey Community,
I'm not sure this is the right section, but I'm going to assume it is
so i'm just going to let all the development people here know about a
tool I've been creating. It's a UK postcode geocoder.
I've created this using NodeJS. I set myself a goal of learning
NodeJS, then deploying the project completely free of charge. Some how
I've achieved it which I'm quite proud of seeing as the postcode
database is about 1.7 million records and 400mb on disk. I do have the
great guys at http://nodester.com to thank for the free NodeJS
hosting, and the guys at http://dotcloud.com for their mongodb free
hosting too.
It's still work in progress, I also know there are tools out there
that do the same thing. However, feel free to try it, criticise it or
just make any general suggestions :) In the future I want to add
features such as locating other postcodes within an X radius of a
searched postcode. I'll also make a distance calculator between two
postcodes.
Enjoy!
Rich
Funny how things somehow come along together. Last week I wrote a simple
GB postcode finder too.
http://pcf.raggedred.net
This incorporates the postcode tiles I maintain for overlays on editors
or maps that need GB postcodes, more info at http://codepoint.raggedred.net
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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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