Hi,
I wonder if you could advice me on the best solution.
I will receive from my client a raw data with locations of their
stores, which probably would look like this:
"B&Q, Industrial Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, CB23 2KK, 01480
7131313"
What I need to do is add to the website a location finder by typing a
postcode. Let's say I type "CB4 1JT" or "Cambridge" where I live and I
want to display number of nearest stores.
Ideally I would like to achieve similar result to this one: http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/templa...ore_finder.jsp
What would be the best approach to implement solution like that? Do I
need to buy off-shelf solution? Which one, from your experience, is
the best. Obviously it must support PHP.
Thanks a million,
Richard 3  4603 
There is also a dedicated UK postcode discussion mailing list, but I no
longer have the details and a quick web search did not find it. If you
can find it with a web search, it would be a valuable info. resource
from people who do this kind of thing professionally. Key words that
might source it are: postcode gis geography (and synonyms) mailing list,
etc.. People in the newsgroups above may know the subscribe details.
It's not a UK dedicated postcode mailing list at all, it's a dedicated GIS
mailing list, but members have postcode to location expertise: See here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/GIS-UK.html
HTH.
Richard wrote:
What I need to do is add to the website a location finder by typing a
postcode.
Here's a link to my own work on postcodes. It supports basic postcode
parsing/validating for the UK, most of Western Europe, plus several other
countries, plus for the UK only: district-accuracy postcode positioning,
distance calculations and searching. http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/postcodes/
Unsupported -- don't ask me for help using it.
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Richard wrote:
>What I need to do is add to the website a location finder by typing a
postcode.
Here's a link to my own work on postcodes. It supports basic postcode
parsing/validating for the UK, most of Western Europe, plus several
other countries, plus for the UK only: district-accuracy postcode
positioning, distance calculations and searching.
http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/postcodes/
Unsupported -- don't ask me for help using it.
Ohhhhh.... now where was this when I was trying to figure all this out a few
months ago?? ;-)
An excellent set of data and routines sir! :-)
Cheers,
Nige
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