An extremely simple, lightweight way of requesting the Geolocation (lat, long, easting, northing) for any UK Postcode, as well as district and ward details.
Requirements
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Ruby
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Rubygems
Install the gem
sudo gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org sudo gem install pat
Include the gem in your project
require 'pat'
Request a postcode
@postcode = Pat.get("N1 1AA")
Use the results (returned as a hash)
puts @postcode["geo"]["lat"] puts @postcode["geo"]["lng"] puts @postcode["geo"]["easting"] puts @postcode["geo"]["northing"] puts @postcode["geo"]["geohash"] puts @postcode["administrative"] puts @postcode["administrative"]["district"] puts @postcode["administrative"]["district"]["title"] puts @postcode["administrative"]["district"]["uri"] puts @postcode["administrative"]["ward"] puts @postcode["administrative"]["ward"]["title"] puts @postcode["administrative"]["ward"]["uri"] puts @postcode["postcode"]
irb -r rubygems -r pat
p = Pat.get("<your postcode here>")
p["geo"]
p["administrative"]
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UK-Postcodes by Pezholio github.com/pezholio/UK-Postcodes
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Timely Information Project by Dave Harte: daveharte.com
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Adrian Short for the idea twitter.com/adrianshort
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Ordance Survey for seeing the light and making UK Postcode data available www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2010 steflewandowski. See LICENSE for details.