Carpe Diem Geocoding service...

Post Code Lookup

?postcode=<uk postcode>
Returns "<formatted postcode>,<latitude>,<longitude>"

Host/IP Lookup (experimental)

?ip=<ip address>
Returns "<ip>,<host>,<city>,<state>,<country>, <latitude>,<longitude>"

OR

?host=<hostname>
Returns "<ip>,<host>,<city>,<state>,<country>, <latitude>,<longitude>"

Example PHP Function

function pcode2latlng ($postcode) { //lookup with curl $url = 'http://geocode.cd-inc.co.uk/?postcode=' . urlencode($postcode); $ch = curl_init (); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); $output = curl_exec ($ch); $params = explode(',',$output); if(isset($params[2])) { $ret['lat'] = $params[1]; $ret['lng'] = $params[2]; $ret['postcode'] = $params[0]; } else { $ret['error'] = $output; } return $ret; }