[BNM] town/county/postcode information

delarge delargerock at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 11:22:19 GMT 2007


yo Shaun - a company I previously worked for used QAS:

http://www.qas.com/

seemed to work just fine


On 11/5/07, Shaun Morrison <shaun.numb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> We are working on a website that needs to allow users to search
> locations around the country by town, county or postcode. Is there an
> sql/csv file with this data already contained? We have already seen
> this guide http://www.easypeasy.com/guides/article.php?article=64
> that provides postcode information, but the problem is how can
> someone enter a smaller town e.g. Shoreham-by-Sea and still receive
> results (as the information only contains larger towns such as
> Brighton and Manchester). Also, the data for counties is not
> contained within that guide.
>
> Is there some kind of 'master-list'? Is this pay-for information? If
> so, does anyone know how much?
>
> Much appreciated
>
> Shaun
>
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