Place of Interest -> Post Code -> Address service?

[minestrone]

Why can't taxi service just used google maps, it even has directions and recognises place names - don't even need a postcode!

It's so that you can book and pay for a journey on the web before you get to the pick up point, meant for corporations booking staff travel, it's to stop expenses fiddling by pesky employees.

I need the from and destination postcodes to send to the taxi company system to get their quoted price.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, i'll review them and seek direction from client co.

[MPwannadecentincome]

It's so that you can book and pay for a journey on the web before you get to the pick up point, meant for corporations booking staff travel, it's to stop expenses fiddling by pesky employees.

I need the from and destination postcodes to send to the taxi company system to get their quoted price.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, i'll review them and seek direction from client co.

in which case, the system providers to the corporates (your client?) should be able to afford to pay for the postcode licences - though they might have to have their lawyers check the terms of the licence carefully as I can't remember if the system provider only needs the licence or whether the end customer (the corporate) needs the licence.

good luck anyway

[RichardCranium]

in which case, the system providers to the corporates (your client?) should be able to afford to pay for the postcode licences - though they might have to have their lawyers check the terms of the licence carefully as I can't remember if the system provider only needs the licence or whether the end customer (the corporate) needs the licence.

The Royal Mail licence model allows for this either way.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Www.freethepostcode.org

[Lumiere]

It's the getting the post code from the place of interest that is the main problem and I can see that google must have that data stored as it does return the postcode from 'tower of london' on googlemaps.

That may work with "tower of london" but try "St Paul's Cathedral" and you will end up in Dundee .. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...6&z=14&iwloc=A

Could be a costly mistake for a taxi company ..

[NickFitz]

That may work with "tower of london" but try "St Paul's Cathedral" and you will end up in Dundee .. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...6&z=14&iwloc=A

Could be a costly mistake for a taxi company ..

Yet if you do the same search with the map already centred on London - not zoomed too far in, just so that Greater London is at the centre and filling much of the map - then you get the London one instead.

Google Maps actually tweaks your search results based on the area you're already looking at, unless you're either zoomed out really far, or zoomed in really close on somewhere with no matches for the search terms. So if the search is for a London-based taxi company, one can use the Google Maps API to start out looking at London, and the search results will be concentrated there.

[Lumiere]

Yet if you do the same search with the map already centred on London - not zoomed too far in, just so that Greater London is at the centre and filling much of the map - then you get the London one instead.

OK, lets pretend I am a busy taxi driver from LondonBasedTaxiCo awaiting for The Monument's postcode from this system ...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...,0.060596&z=14