Conquercise

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ChrisHB Aug 2016 10:00am, 7 Aug 2016 13,624 posts	0 ChrisHB It doesn't appear to very easy to translate a postcode to a placename using public data. That's my conclusion after 5 minutes with Google. I found one part list but no source for it. Even without that, you probably know a fair number of postcodes. It's probably more interesting if a zone is lost through capture than if it's lost through the passage of time.
Waveydavey Aug 2016 2:54pm, 8 Aug 2016 651 posts	0 Waveydavey If you get a message "you have lost control of" then that's your own fault for not naming your owned zones. All my zones are named. And the first thing I do on winning an unnamed zone is to name it"
ChrisHB Aug 2016 3:11pm, 8 Aug 2016 13,630 posts	0 ChrisHB So I run 1000 miles across the Arctic and am expected to give names to 10000 zones?
minardi Aug 2016 3:12pm, 8 Aug 2016 3,532 posts	0 minardi yes
Maz.......... Aug 2016 3:32pm, 8 Aug 2016 8,010 posts	0 Maz.......... Is that entirely likely Chris? If so, you should have your people do it for you!! X
McGoohan Aug 2016 3:37pm, 8 Aug 2016 25,118 posts	0 McGoohan I think my Finland plans have given Chris some ideas
Ceratonia Aug 2016 4:24pm, 8 Aug 2016 3,997 posts	0 Ceratonia Chris - doesn't the google maps API let you do the necessary reverse geocoding? developers.google.com I haven't played about with it enough to know how it copes with co-ordinates that don't map exactly to a street and all the other possible problems, but it does seem to correctly return an address from a latitude/longitude GPS location.
Helegant Aug 2016 4:35pm, 8 Aug 2016 3,343 posts	0 Helegant Not sure if this will help or not, but if you use streetmap.co.uk there is a conversion facility at the bottom of the page in very little letters that translates postcode to map references etc. If you put in the postcode you will get the map, but I'm guessing you want the code that does that?
Ceratonia Aug 2016 4:54pm, 8 Aug 2016 3,999 posts	0 Ceratonia I think Chris said that he could already do lat/long to postcode conversion (the OS provides an open API to do that.) It's converting lat/long to a placename that is trickier.
Oranj Aug 2016 9:25am, 12 Aug 2016 273 posts	0 Oranj Will we ever get back the sunglasses view of other Fetchies conquercise zone maps?