Comments on codesimple: worldinpictures gets UK postcodes

Thanks Barry, that's a very comprehensive site you...

2006-08-24T13:54:00.000+01:00

Thanks Barry, that's a very comprehensive site you've got there. More accurate postcode searches would be good so I may well have a look at your web service for this.

Comment from Barry Hunter: Interesting looking li...

2006-08-24T13:27:00.000+01:00

Comment from Barry Hunter:

Interesting looking little site ;)

If it helps I have a geocoder here:
http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/convert-help.php

this works to sector level postcodes, (which are missing the last two letters), which are are about accurate to about 2km, so might be more accurate. You can also download the CSV of said postcodes to do the geocoding locally.

Also possibly of interest is that using it would allow you to accept GB or Irish Grid References or even IARU Locator's and UTM (converting to lat/long) ;)

I still want to expand its use so can understand placenames (at least in the UK), but havent had the time yet, until/if the Google one will support the UK.

Turns out the N1 postcode problem was down to a bu...

2006-08-23T17:04:00.000+01:00

Turns out the N1 postcode problem was down to a bug in the worldkit web service which has been promptly fixed so the two letter postcodes now work too. Thanks to Mikel at worldkit.