[LRUG] looking up uk addresses from postcode

David Salgado david at digitalronin.com
Wed Jul 25 05:40:13 PDT 2007


I've used postcodeanywhere, who were OK but a bit pricy IIRC, and also this
outfit; http://www.overmap.co.uk

They were fine, although they needed a bit of help with their algorithm that
detected which bit of a string was the postcode! Given that a) that's their
business, and b) it took all of 5 minutes to Google for a suitable regexp,
that wasn't all that impressive, but the service itself seems OK.

All the best

David


On 25/07/07, Ed Davey <ed at veryreal.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for looking up addresses from UK
> postcodes
> in RoR?
>
> I'm after an online service, pay per use with good doumentation (incl
> Rails
> same code ideally).
>
> Came across this list on ruby-forum:
>
> http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk
> http://www.afd.co.uk
> http://www.allies-computing.co.uk/pcodeweb.html
> http://www.epostcode.com
>
> of which the first and last seem promising.
>
> Anyone got any recommendations?
>
> Thanks
>
> ED
>
>
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