Flash postcode mapping
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- richsteph
Anyon done anything with uk postcodes in flash. Specifically mapping postcodes onto a flash map like this;
http://www.johndwood.co.uk/www/s…
I'm fine getting the data in using xml but how do you relate a postcode to a location on a map?
- mirola0
i'm using http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.u… to recover a full address from a uk postcode. i think they can give you the longditude and lattitude that you could then use as a map reference in flash. you get a whole load of data about the area back in xml. it's a really excellent service they do. you buy credits and one credit is a look-up so you get charged like 1p or something every time someone does a look-up. it's based on the royal mail's PAF file which has every single uk postcode - the data is quite heavy though, it comes on like 12 DVDs or something and is quite expensive so it's usually more economical and time-saving to use a service provided by someone else.
- richsteph0
Thanks, I'll have a look at that.