Joe Button joe@paston.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:26 +0000, LB wrote:
I am looking for a free of charge UK postcode database. It's for the purpose of the website I am programming currently, which is of non-commercial nature.
I don't think you'll find a good quality postcode database for free. You might want to investigate the google maps api, which is free as in you don't have to pay money to use it. Check whether the licensing allows you to do what you want with it though.
I'd avoid google maps for postcode at the moment. Not just because of my usual dislike of google, but because it has been badly wrong on postcodes recently, often out by more than a mile. Worst error so far was three miles and three villages away from the actual location.
In general, I'm a bit unhappy with postcodes. LongLat is much simpler.