[Gllug] Any coders out there?

[Dick Turpin]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:39, Ryan Cartwright wrote:

> I think a problem here would be the geographical data. Specifically the
> postcode to grid reference conversion. Even if you get the long/lat of
> the LUGs you still need to convert the users postcode to long/lat and
> that's where the problem comes in. I am assuming here that you are going
> to try and return the nearest LUG by physical location and not just by
> the closest matching postcode string.

Yes, I realise theres not going to be one registered in the street next door I 
was thinking along the lines of inputting lets say WS11 (which is Walsall 
area) and that would return Wolves-Lug And maybe one or two others.

<snip>

> nice idea sorry to sound so negative.
> hope this helps

Yes it does help in respect  of thinking it out, even though it sounds very 
low level in the grand scheme of things I'm really surprised nobody seems to 
have done it before. I've seen and used scripts for producing 'who posted the 
most' 'What subject' 'Email Client used' ect so I would have thought the 
clever people who wrote those type of perl scripts would have given 
the "Whats my nearest lug?" a go.

> --
> Ryan Cartwright
> http://www.cafamily.org.uk/oss

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Regards
Dick Turpin
"At these prices I'm muggging myself!"
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