Comments on: UK Postcode Mapper – Firefox Extension

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:00:38 +0000

Hi Raphael,

I’ve now made this open source, and created a repository at github for this. More info about this here: http://blog.sitedaniel.com/2010/09/uk-postcode-mapper-firefox-extension-is-now-open-source/

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:52:28 +0000

Hi Raphael, Thanks for your comment. Making this open source is a good idea and something that I’ll explore further. Hopefully I post about this here soon.
Cheers,
Daniel

By: Raphael

Raphael — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:43:30 +0000

It would be really great if this could be updated for firefox 3.6.x . Alternatively, if you don’t have the time, how about turning it into an open source project and letting other people have a go?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:05:59 +0000

Hi Eliot,
Thanks for your comment. I considered building an ‘inline’ version of this working with a right-click menu and might get around to it in the future. However the current method actually only takes two clicks (if you operate via the toolbar button as suggested), which would be the same as the method you suggested, so I can’t really see any advantage doing it this way.
Cheers

By: Eliot Stock

Eliot Stock — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:35:36 +0000

This is pretty good, but I find the extra window slows me down to the point where it’s almost not worth using. Surely it would be far better to be able to right click on a postcode and select ‘map’?

The extra window requires three clicks and I really don’t need a list of all the postcodes on this page in one place.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:34:48 +0000

James – did you ever find a way to upload a list of postcodes and display them on a map. I need to do this too and have been searching for a simple solution, but can’t see one without writing code myself. Ideally I’d like a mash-up with Google to make it easy to share the map with others.

Pete

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:51:40 +0000

Hi James,

Thanks for your comment. I like your first feature idea and this is something that I will consider for the next version. Your second idea however seems beyond the scope of what I intended this small plug-in to achieve.

Cheers
Daniel

By: James

James — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:36:35 +0000

Hi there,

The tool is a good idea but I think it could do with a couple of features that will make it much more usable.

Firstly, You can only select one postcode at a time. It would be great if you could select multiple postcodes and have it place them all on the map.

Secondly, what I really need is a way to load a csv files or similar with postcodes into the tool and to then be able to have all of them displayed on a map.

If you could do this I will happily review it on Google Apps to get it out of the experimental state.

Many thanks

James