I have heard that GeoNames is a great source for name/location information.
They even have UK postal codes:
http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/postal-codes-uk.html
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Della Bitta
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:32 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Searching by location – What do I send to Solr?
Have you tried www.geonames.org ?
- Michael
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 12:20 -0700, Spadez wrote:
Hi,
This is quite a challenge. I know there are situations when you can get by
with google maps api or similar, but they limit the number of requests and
I
need more than that, unfortunatly for the full service they charge a
fortune!
So, going back to my question, does anyone have any ideas or suggestions
of
a good solution?
Search for "London"----->*Convert "London to Long/Lat"*----->Send Query to
Solr>----->Return Query>
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