Need to find latitude and longitude of postcodes and store into my database [closed]

Answer 1

Postcode location data is available free now. See this answer:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/2625123/587803

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

The one you want is "Code-Point open".

Answer 2

Here it is. Dumped SQL table full of Postcodes, LAT/LON, X/Y coordinates :)

Download zip (UK-Postcodes.zip) and for more info read [same-website]/guides/article.php?article=64 :)

I haven't tested it, but it should be working, lad :)

Happy coding ^^

Answer 3

For postcode database, unfortunately I cannot help you.

But for Google... You know, you don't have to do this for EVERY postcode EACH time. You can cache the values in your database and do it only once for each new postcode. Although this will take some time, it's possible.

Yeah, it still sucks. But better than nothing.

Answer 4

http://www.freethepostcode.org/ provides information you may find useful.

Answer 5

Maybe Nominatim should do the trick. The only problem is that it might not be up to date.

Answer 6

Geonames.org offers a free downloadable database. You could try Bing API or other commercial offerings but they have rather restrictive T&C in how many queries you can make within a time period, how you can use it (needs a lawyer to interpret their nuances).

I found Geonames.org to be more than sufficient for my needs.