[Gllug] Lug Finder Update

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:59:27AM +0000, Dick Turpin wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> 
> >a) Malvern is not my local LUG.
> >b) the URL is 
> >http://www.centrosales.co.uk/lugfinder/www.malvern.lug.org.uk when it 
> >should be http://www.malvern.lug.org.uk
> 
> Hey Alan
> 
> Don't shoot the messenger, as far as I know the list of Lug's is taken 

Heh.

> from here: http://lug.org.uk/lugs/all.php so its their error not mine.
> 

"Their" as in lug.org.uk?

> As I say is pretty raw and needs cleaning up would you like to help?
> 

I would love to. I would really like a good way for people to find their 
local LUG.

> The reason it throws out those lines of errors is because most of the 
> Lug's in the lugs.csv file do not have the Long/Lat info yet I'm 
> manually inputting them now from these people: http://www.npemap.org.uk 
> however that is pretty hit & miss too as I don't have exact postcodes 
> for each and every Lug so I have to make an educated guess eg the 
> nearest train station.
> 

Would it not be easier to get ahold of a list of postcodes from some project 
like openstreetmap?

Cheers,
Al.
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