Re: UK Postcodes

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Stearne
On 1/24/06, James Harvard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's the Royal Mail. Ordnance Survey, the government mapping agency for the > UK, are in on it too. > > To read their web site (as I have done a couple of years ago, and just now > too) you would think it had never occurred to them that peopl

Re: UK Postcodes

2006-01-24 Thread James Harvard
It's the Royal Mail. Ordnance Survey, the government mapping agency for the UK, are in on it too. To read their web site (as I have done a couple of years ago, and just now too) you would think it had never occurred to them that people might want to deploy the data as part of a web site. It's a

Re: UK Postcodes

2006-01-24 Thread Rhino
rated, possibly for a fairly affordable price. Any idea what would prevent the post office from doing that? Rhino - Original Message - From: "sheeri kritzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "MySQL List" Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3

Re: UK Postcodes

2006-01-24 Thread sheeri kritzer
Hi Mike, Sorry for the late reply. The company I work for has this very same problem -- we are a multi-national personal ad site, where members can search for other members close to them. The answer is, unfortunately, you have to acquire one database with postcodes, and another with longitudes a