Postcode filtering for Campers

[artitudinale1]

It wouldn't be nice to have filter for zone in Campers?
Maybe filtering for the first 3 letter of the postcode, so campers would just inset those.
Looking how many Post Code in London that could be a challenge ......
https://www.doogal.co.uk/london_postcodes.php
But maybe a nice feature to have ? what you think?

[chris-alexander]

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe if postcode is too much we could start with the London Borough?

[dlewis87]

Is it worth adding this in now to the JSON? Then at least it's there to use if we want...

[artitudinale1]

Totally we could start to planning and have that with Json data

[dlewis87]

Ok I would say to use first part of postcode for those of us outside of London 😃

[artitudinale1]

Can we just covered area at https://www.doogal.co.uk/london_postcodes.php or we need more? what you think?

[dlewis87]

Well my postcode is in that... so should be ok!

[artitudinale1]

We should looking for API with postcode if exist.
Otherwise create array by ourself.
Break in small issues

[hasansan07]

What kind of data are we looking for? Looking an address from a postcode or geomapping? Here is an api vendor for UK postcodes: http://www.uk-postcodes.com/api

[artitudinale1]

Thanks for that , interesting!
I guess we need some data to filter campers that are "near" to a given postcode.
So maybe we can set a function comparing post code (taken as filtering input) and postcode in campers Json returning the near ones.
Setting near one with a reasonable distance we can choose.
What you think? just an idea..

[hasansan07]

We can look for a specific postcode with this api, which will return all postcodes within a radius: http://uk-postcodes.com/postcode/nearest?postcode=[postcode]&miles=[distance in miles]&format=[xml|csv|json]

As an enhancement, we can cross-check from another source (a local json file which is in use for campers data) to visualise in a map with pointing camper photo.

[artitudinale1]

Yep absolutely !
can we split this in issues:
First use specific postcode with the api you mention
Second add enhancement suggested ?

Feel free to create those and if you want get started pls do so.
It would be nice if you listed yourself as campers in JSON :)

[hasansan07]

Okay, I can take both. I'll post my questions from gitter and add here as well.

[artitudinale1]

Pls go a head.
I suggest to split because maybe someone else can be interested to work on it...any questions just let us know and thanks! :)