<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 February 2011 17:21, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Skeeve@eintellego.net">Skeeve@eintellego.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Just designing a contacts/provisioning system and I'd like to do dynamic addressing with user data control.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Is there a source of all the suburbs and all 'official' streets in the country? Is this open data or something you have to pay for?</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">I'd like to do an ajax thingo where you go backwards, choosing the suburb, then only showing streets in that suburb that match… Like a satnav system.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; ">Thanks for the info.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have a look at Google's geo-related web services and APIs (<a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/webservices/">http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/webservices/</a>). It is extremely powerful stuff (e.g. you can geocode 15K lat/lon -> street address or vice versa per day for free).</div>
<div><br></div><div>You won't get a list of all streets in the country from them - but you might be able to scrub / clean and standardise addresses against their DB using those APIs.</div><div><br></div><div>Check T&Cs for commercial use. </div>
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