A Django app that lets you load Ordnance Survey data and use it to find places.
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# Geocoder
This is a Django app that lets you load Ordnance Survey data and use it to find places.
A list of Places from the Ordnance Survey is stored in a spatial database, and a url is provided to query them by name and return a JSON response containing matching places. Useful for autocompleting inputs that take town, city or road names.
In addition, the places are filtered by a series of bounding boxes, so that only places within the supplied boxes are returned.
## Prerequisites * A [[GeoDjango][https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#introduction] project (Note, this has only been tested with Django 1.4.5 and a PostGIS database)
## Installation 1. Add geocoder to your INSTALLED_APPS list in settings.py 2. Import the geocoder ajax url into your project’s urls.py 3. Set GEOCODER_BOUNDING_BOXES to include one or more bounding boxes 3. Run python manage.py syncdb 4. Restart your web server, if necessary.
## Data
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/os-opendata.html
The Ordnance Survey make large data sets available under an open license. See the url above for more details. This app uses the OS Locator and 1:50k Gazetteer.
## Importing data
Download the data from the Ordnance Survey website.
Set the GEOCODER_BOUNDING_BOXES entry in your settings.py.
Import the data using one of the import management commands, the path to the data file is the only argument.
## Licensing
Anywhere you make use of the data from the OS you should display the following text:
> Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013
See the [OS OpenData Licensing](http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licensing.html) page for more details.
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