Pat

An extremely simple, lightweight way of requesting the Geolocation (lat, long, easting, northing) for any UK Postcode, as well as district and ward details.

Get information on a UK postcode

Requirements

• Ruby

• Rubygems

Install the gem

sudo gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
sudo gem install pat

Include the gem in your project

require 'pat'

Request a postcode

@postcode = Pat.get("N1 1AA")

Use the results (returned as a hash)

puts @postcode["geo"]["lat"]
puts @postcode["geo"]["lng"]
puts @postcode["geo"]["easting"]
puts @postcode["geo"]["northing"]
puts @postcode["geo"]["geohash"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]["district"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]["district"]["title"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]["district"]["uri"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]["ward"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]["ward"]["title"]
puts @postcode["administrative"]["ward"]["uri"]
puts @postcode["postcode"]

Try it out

irb -r rubygems -r pat

p = Pat.get("<your postcode here>")

p["geo"]

p["administrative"]

Thanks to

• UK-Postcodes by Pezholio github.com/pezholio/UK-Postcodes

• Timely Information Project by Dave Harte: daveharte.com

• Adrian Short for the idea twitter.com/adrianshort

• Ordance Survey for seeing the light and making UK Postcode data available www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 steflewandowski. See LICENSE for details.