Full postcode area list - for a business website .where?

cem

Hi, I am after a list of areas against postcodes.

I am setting up a website and my website developer's asking me a for a list of all postcodes against areas so when a website visitor types in their postcode their area is automatically picked up (does not have to be as specific as the road name)..

Could anyone help ?

Thanks
ps: yes this is a repost from here as I have not been able find a list that I can use unfortunately

custardy

http://www.maxmind.com/app/postalcode

amcluesent

The Post Code set is (c) of the Post Office (although the file leaked onto t'interweb a few months back). The best bet is to contract with a provider to use a web-service to do what you need.

BTW, you don't need to wait until a visitor inputs their post code, there's plenty of services that'll use the IP address of the incoming traffic to resolve to town/area level.

weegie.geek

A lot of geoip info is completely wrong though, It's not reliable really.

bonzer

Post code data was recently released by the Ordnance Survey under a free open license:

http://data.gov.uk/node/8831

Lil306

bonzer wrote: »

Post code data was recently released by the Ordnance Survey under a free open license:

http://data.gov.uk/node/8831

Not fully sure what it is yet, but Im downloading all