As JLumb said – postcode data in the UK isn’t free, but as an upside it is very accurate and always up to date – the venerable Royal Mail makes sure of that with their PAF database.

There are new providers giving access to the data at increasingly affordable prices, have a look at:

http://www.craf...ks.co.uk/prices

and to see a demo:

http://www.craf...cks.co.uk/demos

You can make a donation however and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.

I haven’t implemented it yet, but once I do, I will be making a big donation cos this will seriously save me an incredible amount of time, effort and money.

Man I love the web!!!

http://www.face...ingStarted.aspx

You can see some of it in operation at http://www.cleantag.com The Best Geotagging Software for adding Google Earth GPS coordinates to Flickr and faces photos

http://www.geonames.org proyecto para crear una base de datos geográfica libre a nivel global, contiene ya 8,5 millones de topónimos de 6,5 millones de lugares con 2 millones de nombres alternativos, en mas de 200 idiomas. Los datos de Geonames son usados p…

Yesterday I had to make an emergency call to the Fire Service. I was standing on top of a ridge some 30km from the town. Now try explain to a non-local where you are in that situation and where the smoke is coming from.

Postal addresses and ZIP codes are peanuts compared to the way we use to explain locations and navigating in every day life. Even in town.

You ain’t going to say “such and such number / street, level 2″ about a music store. You are most likely to say “A music shop opposite BigMac on High street, somewhere upstairs next to Dymocks bookshop”.

There is a big opportunity for a self-learning address and place name resolution system. Google, MS and Yahoo place name resolution suck.

Anyone to revive my project ?

http://www.post.../smartform.aspx

From what I can see it works pretty well, however, it’s not free…

But Your great great grand or future children will look back your dna data to find out if you went to porn sites. They want to know why they were born mixed.

Agggghhhh!!!!! people can’t get out of this thing. oh fu*k…. The servers keep records about you.

Thanks alot mike for bring pornotube! This is embrassassing…
Kids will find out if you actually jerk off porn sites.

This is all your faults…

I’m converting to christian forever!!!

Clean, easy-to-use REST API with JSON and XML result types.

Some of their other unique services are: Elevation by coordinates, RSS to GeoRSS geocoding, nearby Wikipedia entries. Definitely useful for mashups.

I used coordinates from a different site, but you should get a similar effect.

Since they are offering zip code lookups for coordinates, do they have an api the pump’s back this data?

Thanks

SELECT ‘%s’ as member, a.id, %s, a.address1, a.city, a.state, a.zip, ROUND(
(ACOS(
(SIN(c.lat) * SIN(a.lat)) +
(COS(c.lat) * COS(a.lat) *
COS(a.lon – c.lon))
)
)
* 3963,1
) AS distance
FROM zip c, %s a
where c.zip = ‘%s’ %s
ORDER BY distance, a.firm