Thanks for the replies!
- Chris - nice to know that the hoopla about returned mail must relate to isolated incidents and not normal practice - Jeremy - Address Finder looked really good but this app is for an "intranet", the form won't be public facing at any rate, and $1500 is a pretty steep fee. I like the look of the address.nzpost.co.nz stuff so I've tweeted them since online chat <https://twitter.com/itamer/status/334495297646522368>, phone calls and requests for info haven't worked. I'm astounded that this isn't more of an issue and that they haven't sorted this out long ago. Sarah *Sarah King* Tel: 09 815 8642 | Mobile: 0273 711 298 http://www.itamer.com http://www.roommatecabins.co.nz [image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/itamer> [image: LinkedIn]<http://nz.linkedin.com/in/sarahking> Contact me: [image: Google Talk] rainchx [image: Skype] sarah.king On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Jonathan Hunt <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/05/2013, at 9:33 PM, Sam Bonner wrote: > > NZ Post already provides a bunch of well documented API's for various > services - http://api.nzpost.co.nz/common - would one of those not suit > your purposes? > > Those APIs are limited to very specific use cases. None return a postcode > or validate an address. > > > On 10 May 2013 21:16, Sarah King <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nothing like bumping an ancient thread but has anyone written anything > to query the NZPost site? Curl or anything simila? > > > > I gather they're considering building an API but nobody has returned my > calls so I have no idea if it's imminent (so hang fire) or shelved (so > build something). > > NZPost have an API at http://address.nzpost.co.nz/ that is very similar > the AddressFinder API (similar underlying tech AFAICT) but they haven't > made it public and I've had no response regarding when it will be made > public. > > Geonames have Postcode to Town and Lat/Lon mapping licensed as CC-BY. > http://www.geonames.org/postalcode-search.html?q=8140&country=NZ > also available as a download > http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/NZ.zip > I'm not sure how up-to-date it is. > > It would be interesting to do a comparison with the official postcode data. > > Regards > Jonathan > > -- > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NZ PHP Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NZ PHP Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
