[Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

[Derick Rethans]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
> Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
> queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data
> in the OSM database. You can find my site at [2].

Awesome; I tried my own code, which I've mapped, and it works. However, 
I don't quite understand the sorting algorithm :-) :

http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/NW6%206TB/

cheers,
Derick