Entries tagged ‘geocoding’

Code-Point Open – Northern Ireland Addendum

In April 2010 Ordnance Survey released The Code-Point Open dataset under a licence compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence. The dataset locates, by OSGB grid reference every postcode unit in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland is missing. You can read more about the limitations of the Code-Point Open dataset in my previous post
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The Problem With Code-Point Open From Ordnance Survey

Before I begin, let me just say that decision of Ordnance Survey to release a whole bunch of their data into the public domain is a massive leap in the right direction. The number of freely available datasets is vast, but what I’m most interested in is the Code-Point Open dataset.
Code-Point Open purports to [...]

Google Streetview Postcode Thumbnails

Following my explorations of Google’s undisclosed Street View Images API, I’ve put together a handy little webservice that mashes up postcode geodata with the Streetview Images API.
It’s handy in that it let’s you directly request a streetview thumbnail with nothing more than a postcode. The format of the request looks like this:

http://geo.jamiethompson.co.uk/streetview/[POSTCODE]_[WIDTH]x[HEIGHT].jpg

As far as the [...]

Google Streetview Static API

It is possible to extract both thumbnails and higher resolution images (tiles) from the Google Streetview service through an unpublished, undocumented API which I will document below. Google have not publicly released this API, but nor have they sought to secure or even obfuscate it in any way. To me, this is about as open [...]

An Open Postcode Geocoding API

Because I needed one for various (non-profit) projects of my own, I’ve put together a small Postcode geocoding web service which collates partial data from various sources into what aims to be a full geocoder / reverse geocoder for UK postcodes.
Now, the term ‘geocoding’ can mean several very subtly different things depending on who you [...]