UK Postal Addresses

[zerotolerance]

Hello everyone. I searched quite a bit but I couldn't find a trace of answer to the question below.

Is there a way of creating a postal address service in LabView.

What I mean is, like in the GPS system, if you put in your post-code, the street name pops up with a number of houses automatically, and you just pick the house number thats yours.

I'm trying to do the same thing, but I have no idea if there is a data base of post-codes for UK for example.

I need to save the database in the locl PC since no internet connection is available for where this software is going to be used in.

any help in this matter is most appriciated.

thanks

kas 

[mikealder]

You will need a database containing the postcode data which is owned/ controlled by Ordnance Survey and they protect this with very heavy fines etc.

Whether the recent move to allow free data from OS will de-restrict this data isn't really known, what I do know is third party applications for use with early Sat Nav products that added poastcode support were stamped on by the OS team so make sure whatever you use is legal to avoid getting you collar felt - Mike

[zerotolerance]

Thanks for the reply, for an offline option, as you said, looks like I need a proper license for it.

However, if I go for an online option (i.e. link through the google maps or similar services), would this be possible?

I'm thinking, can labview search an address on the background on the internet as the user puts in the post-code on the GUI controll? I'm assumming this wouldn't be illegal.

I'm just thinking out loud here

Thanks

Kas

[MikeS81 · Accepted solution]

Hi Kas,

do you know an online service which can what you need? If yes, then you can call the website with your parameters and parse the result. You can use the datasocket functions to do it.

Mike