Hi George, Thanks for that. Last thing I want to do is p!ss Google off!! But, I think I really do need the data in my db. It's a buy and sell type website. So, the nature would be that someone places an advert with and would enter their post code in a field as part of the advert. A user then comes in and says find me ads within a nMile radius of post code x. So, based upon postcode x, it would need to know how many adverts exist within my database within a nMile radius. Unless, I could use the google api to: I have a post code, I send it to google, google sends me back an array of post code lat/longs, I select from my database and then send that to google and plot points onto a map. Do you reckon that is feasible?
I'm still in design stage so am just trying to get my head around how I should engineer this... All the bets, John On Oct 2, 9:26 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 October 2011 20:55, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't want each and every street but just the general long,lat for > > each postcode so I can store it in my database. > > Google can provide this. But bear in mind that if you use their data > you *must* show it on a Google map. You can't just use their data > without the map. If you do use postcodes, it's always best to include > the country as well, particularly with four- or five-digit codes which > are used by many countries. > > http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=SW1A+1AA,UK&s... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
