On 25 March 2012 10:13, Chris Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Those tools are really nice. There's not much to say since they seem to just work :) Also I guess that I should remind people of the Postcode Finder I wrote a while back at http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/. I haven't updated the OSM data in a while (I will do soon) but it's able to search via codepoint too. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
