[thesite] map - the FSFE way

[Martin]

Warden, Matt wrote on 25/7/01 7:32 pm

>>Anyone figure out a way to find lats and lons for other countries based 
>>upon postal address (or code)?

Arg. Geocoding. It's not fun. The likes of http://www.mapinfo.com/
and other GIS suppliers make a very, very large amount of money off
it.

Here's a thought - could the zoom be provided by someone like
http://www.multimap.com or mapquest?

Here's me:
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=eh111qj

The pc bit is my postcode (with spaces removed).

Or for the US with Mapquest:
<http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=btwn%2Ftwn-map_results&event=
find_search&Zip=90210>

Cheers
Martin

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