Re: Geo::Postcode

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Tony Bowden wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:39:06PM +0100, william ross wrote:
> 
>>The accuracy of its measurements depends on the data set that it's 
>>working with. It comes with a basic set of nearly 3000 points that 
>>pretty much covers all the postcode areas (like 'E1' or 'LA23'), but no 
>>more. That's enough to get started and rough out an application, but 
>>for serious public use you will need to license the use of a proper 
>>postcode set. The module is designed to accept all sorts of data 
>>sources without too much trouble.
> 
> 
> Have you plans for ways of allowing other people to help extend the list
> you have? There's a lot of people interested in this sort of thing.

Such as the tools running geocoder.us perhaps? If there is a way to make 
it generic enough to work with any format zipcode (how about a US -> GB 
query?) that would be super spiffy.

Drew
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