help me screenscrape

Diskbox · 9 Feb 2006 at 18:43

Hi, i was wondering if anyone was highly skilled in php and could help me scrape the lat and lon from a multimap url.

basically i`m trying to enter a postcode, and then get the lat and long that are return, or displayed on the reuslt page of a multimap page.

i`m trying to link this into a google map.

anyone who knows how to do this please lend me a hand.

robmiller · 9 Feb 2006 at 20:18

Preeety sure this is against Multimap's TOS, they have a developer program for things like this

hendrix · 9 Feb 2006 at 20:44

I'm pretty sure jonno used something like this. Involved php + a MySQL database.

edit: Looks like the thread has been pruned

Jotun · 9 Feb 2006 at 20:58

http://www.voicexmlguide.com/frame.jsp?page=t_18.htm

Have a go at that, it should get you started with the basics, then apply what you know to your idea

Caged · 9 Feb 2006 at 21:43

Google maps will accept postcodes as a location input though :confused:

Diskbox · 10 Feb 2006 at 23:45

managed to get it sorted.

reason for doing it was i wanted to get the lat and long form the multimap url, then use them to place a marker on a google map. i couldnt do it with google maps for some reason. anyway works now. is it really against the TOS, oh dear i better read.