Comments for Tom Anthony

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by pet insurance for cats

pet insurance for cats — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:50:47 +0000

Great guide! I’m starting to study geocodinng for a few days now.I would like to know how every part works.It’s nice to drop by here and learn from your tutorial.I will keep checking out your blog for updates.

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by Kaore

Kaore — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:05:25 +0000

Here is a short tutorial implementing geocoding and reverse geocoding on the client side: http://tech.cibul.org/geocode-with-google-maps-api-v3

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by John Issacs

John Issacs — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:05:21 +0000

I am a web developer and had a 2 month project testing both solutions after reading the outcome of the IMFA regarding European business mapping providers.
The wikipedia page for Google states it only provide BASIC Geocoding, so Kieran I agree with you on the accuracy point. The data cannot be cached. The V3 version has too many bugs still Ben.

I noted that the free Google solution took twice as long to develop, had only basic Geocoding and everything else had to be developed from scratch I.e. criteria search, database management. Still Google business customers both paid (up to £7800) a year and free (if the solution will not be re sold (i.e. vehichle tracking) have no access to the UK postcode data from the royal mail as Google are no licensed (hence the often appalling accuracy) with only 4 digit postcode verification.

In a positive, Google is a pretty basic platform and for the most part is free to use and widely available and recognised.

The API platform from ViaMichelin (used a mixture of javascript skills) was offered to me on a free trial for 45 days and took only a few weeks to complete, Geocoding for address verification was included (so ideal for store finder, reserve and collect, etc and gave me access to live human support (to see what else I could do with their api). They provided me a platform with full Europe coverage and geocoded Ireland which Google could not offer for a price cheaper than the Google enterprise and premier.

Bing fell behind when it came to customer support as it was non existent and the former multimap owned company owned by microsoft took just over the 2 months to get back to me.

Like for like, The new ViaMichelin API solution wins, For a basic solution use Google, for business’s looking for real quality use Viamichelin

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by Ben

Ben — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:47:54 +0000

Has anyone migrated this to V3 of the Google Map API Javascript?

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by classified ads

classified ads — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:35:12 +0000

Why is it’s incorrect for me?

Comment on Caching Google Maps Geocoder Results by Dave Coxon

Dave Coxon — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:59:27 +0000

How do we get a HTTP request in ASP from google API in order to retrieve the longitude and latitude of any location and then use those variables to post forward to another API application that requires the long/lat to return its results in simple ASP script.

In our website the user would search for plumbers in luton and post the request through to the results.asp page, which would then need to dig out the long/lat of luton from google API and post those through to a directory engine returning an xml feed of plumber in and around luton based on radial search of luton

Comment on Caching Google Maps Geocoder Results by complex web development

complex web development — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:51:32 +0000

Hi Tom,
Both the code and the explaination were top quality and were very useful.
Is it possible to archive your tutorial and post it for download.
Many thanks!

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by Vivek Agrawal

Vivek Agrawal — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:03:17 +0000

Hi Tom

Thanks for the great article.

Just to share that I want to use GeoCode only for getting the lat/long and feed it to the database table. Could you please guide me at how to use your code for this. Sorry to bother but its a matter of urgency. Would be grateful if you could please reply.

Many Thanks

Vivek

Comment on Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API by Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:30:22 +0000

thanks, this has been so helpful. More accuracy!! Thanks again!

Comment on Caching Google Maps Geocoder Results by lee

lee — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:04:52 +0000

Hi Tom
a while ago you said
“I should also mention, the other area for expansion with this tutorial is passing multiple postcodes to your server in a single query (both reading and writing). Which could be of significant help if you have lots and lots of markers.”

How can we do this? I am trying to plot multiple markers on a map via twitter posts using the ajax lookup, it works fine for geocoder.getLatLng but using your example only the results of the first request are posted.

in the above example only marker B is at the posted address the other is posted at another location.

Any help is much appreciated - my head hurts