Hi folks,
Apart from the conventional Google API for retrieving the latitude and longitude of any location by:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=<Address>&sensor=false
The above works quit beautifully for me. But the only problem was with its daily query limit. That is, you cannot make more than one particular number of calls to the above API from a single IP address.
So I started researching on other available API's for generating lat/lon from a given post code/city/town. Since my requirement was just for UK, so the following API URL came in very handy to me:
Apart from the conventional Google API for retrieving the latitude and longitude of any location by:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=<Address>&sensor=false
The above works quit beautifully for me. But the only problem was with its daily query limit. That is, you cannot make more than one particular number of calls to the above API from a single IP address.
So I started researching on other available API's for generating lat/lon from a given post code/city/town. Since my requirement was just for UK, so the following API URL came in very handy to me:
