On 08/04/2010 16:22, Mark Goodge wrote:
On 08/04/2010 15:58, Harrison, Stuart wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may be aware that I've put together a web service that used
the recently-released CodepointOpen data from Ordnance Survey. In a
nutshell it returns lat/lng and local authority data (as well as a few
other bits and bobs) in a number of formats (html, xml, json, csv, rdf
etc) eg:
http://www.uk-postcodes.com/postcode/WS136YY.xml
Nice. On a slightly related note, is there any published database or
API that allows me to get from either a latitude/longitude or OS grid
reference to local authority names, without needing to know the
postcode first?
(I know it could be done indirectly by finding the nearest postcode to
a point and then looking up the postcode in CodePoint, but that's not
always going to be reliable near authority boundaries).
Mark
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Believe you can do that from the ONS rest API.
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Info.do?page=NDE.htm
If not, I can prob work something out.
Chris
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