Hi
I have been doing a little project for my work where get a list of several thousand postcodes, count up the number in each sector, geocode the sectors and display the totals on a google map.
We only have local addresses so are using less than 20 sectors. The geocoder on npemap.org.uk is very fast and this is easy.
I am thinking of making this a website open to all (FOSS etc etc). Clearly there is some scope for quite a lot of geocoder load and a web api may not be suitable any more - and the load on this server may become a bit too high in short bursts.
Is the geocoder available to download, and if so are there any hints for converting a fastcgi to daemon?
Many thanks
Gavin
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Gavin Jamie wrote:
Is the geocoder available to download
Yes, both the geocoder and a script to do nightly imports from the main site are available.
The geocoder is cgi/geocoder.fgci, and the import script is in scripts/npemap-importer/importer.pl . You may also want scripts/freethepostcode.org-importer/importer.py to do a nightly import from freethepostcode.
Dom - is svn open to all yet? If so, what's the public url?
and if so are there any hints for converting a fastcgi to daemon?
Your life would probably be easier if you kept it running as a cgi, but I suspect someone has already written a perl module to wrap a fastcgi script in a little pure-perl webserver. Anyone know of one?
Nick
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:21:06PM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Gavin Jamie wrote:
Is the geocoder available to download
Yes, both the geocoder and a script to do nightly imports from the main site are available.
The geocoder is cgi/geocoder.fgci, and the import script is in scripts/npemap-importer/importer.pl . You may also want scripts/freethepostcode.org-importer/importer.py to do a nightly import from freethepostcode.
Dom - is svn open to all yet? If so, what's the public url?
Just opened up at
https://urchin.earth.li/svn/npemap/
Dominic.
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 23:06:06 you wrote:
Dom - is svn open to all yet? If so, what's the public url?
Just opened up at
https://urchin.earth.li/svn/npemap/
Dominic.
Many thanks guys. I have now got a working geocoder (after getting dependencies and pointing the scripts to them - my ISP has a slightly unusual setup)
Now at feed.gpcontract.co.uk/cgi-bin/geocoder.fcgi
Just to automate the process of grouping and coding postcodes now (which is actually more a problem of getting the right data to the right requester than any problem in the actual processing of the postcodes!
Gavin
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