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rinigus is offline rinigus
2018-08-23 , 18:16
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#525
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
In the UK, postcodes are the way of giving directions. There is nearly a direct mapping between a postcode and geographic coordinates. There is a postcode for every street; long streets can have several postcodes. And of course important landmarks have their own postcodes too.

So I would not say they are "popular". More like "essential".
Can you specify how do you expect this to work. Do you just type in the postcode and get coordinates to drive to? Or do you specify post code and some additional information?

Having a mapping between postcodes -> coordinates is "simple". So, driving on the basis of postcodes only.

Having a mapping between postcodes and some extra data is harder. Not sure how to do that properly yet
 

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