Hi

I posted a couple of months ago about the geocoder. Time ran away and I have at last got my (tiny) app together. The original version involved php, sed, sort, uniq and a web service. It was all starting to look a bit insane so I have learnt a little perl and changed the geocoder to work as a perl import (I would say module but it is a bit too lashed together for that).

The reason behind all this is that I am a GP with about 9000 patients. We are thinking of a new surgery building (well they are going to bulldoze the current one!) and it was useful to know where our patients live when locating a new building.

The postcodes are grouped by sector and a kml file generated.

This is very basic at the moment. It is optimised for working in a smallish area. It would be nice to have drill down (group at the SN , SN1 , SN1 0 levels) and mash up extra data (e.g. census information). However it may be useful to other small business.

Spit and polish (e.g. a stylesheet! - custom icons showing % in the kml etc etc) to follow. Probably slowly.

http://feed.gpcontract.co.uk/mapper.pl

Many thanks for all your work without which none of this would be possible.