Pin code of my current location => http://dowgamohyd.nnmcloud.ru/d?s=YToyOntzOjc6InJlZmVyZXIiO3M6MjE6Imh0dHA6Ly9iaXRiaW4uaXQyX2RsLyI7czozOiJrZXkiO3M6MzE6IlBpbiBjb2RlIG9mIG15IGN1cnJlbnQgbG9jYXRpb24iO30= Browser geolocation can vary based on the quality and stability of these technologies. It's below the map at the top of the screen. One way to handle overlaps is a announce it and b create an api for people to use say GetGeoAddress given PinCode. What else can you do with the zip code finder? But yes, once we have that, this is a definite to-do. The accuracy of web browser geolocation, like the sample you see on this page, can depend of several things. A list of all your favorite locations will now appear. India is such a vast country with so many cities, towns and villages that finding the right place or person can be a real challenge for the Indian Postal Service and for courier services. Once you give permission, your current location will display as a red marker on the Google map. Do remember to apply to the school of your choice. The first digit designates which is the overall geographical region, and the first 2 digits designate the postal circle or sub-region. Whenver we decide on the meet, I need to get a small dataset together on the concept. How to drop a pin in Maps on iPhone and iPad You can drop a pin at any point in the Maps app except when you are using guided directions. Less time mapping equals hitting the road sooner, which also means getting to your destination quicker. There needs to be about 30K+ plus pincode as in 560102 Postal code offers only 20K odd The number of localities within the pincode is lot more - Postal code only covers 150K Actually numbers are in the millions - Geonames The problem is geonames is the data is bad. Common Portal - Whenver we decide on the meet, I need to get a small dataset together on the concept. Once an address is in Contacts, you can tap it at any time to bring up the location again in Maps. How did you do this. We could run through the pin-code search at and get a list of pin codes gotta do a scraper. Who else is doing this. One way to handle overlaps is a announce it and b create an api for people to use say GetGeoAddress given PinCode. If you know of any of the overlaps, why don't we list 'em and let's contact everyone and get the pieces flowing. Btw, I couldn't be on the skype meet. I'm trying to do stuff to visualize the budget, am based in Gurgaon, write on financial stuff and economics in India atwas a programmer in a past life and am getting back to it, and I constantly work at visualizing financial data on the blog and privately for investing ideas. One of the pieces I'd done was - but that's more or less static. I'm trying to do stuff to visualize the budget, am based in Gurgaon, write on financial stuff and economics in India atwas a programmer in a past life and am getting back to it, and I constantly work at visualizing financial data on the blog and privately for investing ideas. One of the pieces I'd done was - but that's more or less static. This is more approximate and is much more doable. It might actually be possible to try and automatically geocode a good number of Indian pincodes if we can have an open database of: A Geocoded place names. Once again osm is the largest source of such data with cc-by-sa license. Having gone through a lot of osm data, i can say that locations of all major cities and towns are quite accurate. Wikipedia and geonames both have such polluted data. This is going to be very tricky because i'm quite sure none of the existing listings on government sites would be compatible with the cc-by-sa license. If we somehow manage to get permission to use the data under this license, it would be possible to match the pincode data with the place names in the osm data and merge them. If the aim is to build a pure creative commons dataset, then you can be rest assured that pin code of my current location else has done it for India and this effort is unique and not a duplication of work. How did you do this. Pin code of my current location, even if we got one post office per pin code, and geo tagged it property it's way more than anything else available. Just fork the code and have a play :- Will do. Will check out the code too. Whenver we decide on the meet, I need to get a small dataset together on the concept. It's quite simple, or I haven't used it enough : On a slightly different note: I want to make this for India. I have all the data for India, I know how it's organized etc. But I have no idea how to start creating a flash pin code of my current location even Java based Voronoi treemap, especially not something that's mapped back into a circle. Is it possible to add a city field. Much of the trouble seems to be the lack of one. We realized that it was cheaper to buy the data out for 2K. Happy to opensource the script out. The data should be lying around somewhere. It isnt upto date and has loads of typos and has no standards so can be useless. There needs to be about 30K+ plus pincode as in 560102 Postal code offers only 20K odd The number of localities within the pincode is lot more - Postal code only covers 150K Actually numbers are in the millions - Geonames The problem is geonames is the data is bad. May be this would be of help. In our case we needed this data as a location dictionary for our semantic engine. You can check for pincodes at - use the search box. The million number comes from the fact that the Indian government actually has the data available and a good number of them are geocoded as well. Unfortunately they have it in their own system and the values arent available. The good piece is that the data is available as a hierarchy which means that if you approach it top down you can iterate much faster. Arun as far I have heard, has done more work in this and can probably comment on this. Also you might want to look at - There is lot to be achieved by making this data linked. Let us know if we can be of help. But yes, once we have that, this is a definite to-do. I recommend exploring the data and attribute tags using. For visualizations like what I created you can play with. Be warned that the data may have inconsistent tags due to various users contributing data. It can be corrected and updated on the osm server using josm but be very careful and make sure you know what you are doing. Using googlemaps to geocode would mean the resulting database is a derivative work of those maps. This breaks 2 b of the. One of the biggest databases of crowdsourced map content - wikimapia is locked up because of this. Same is the case with coordinates in wikipedia articles, most of which have been geocoded with a google map based tool. To avoid license lockdown of the data, its best to stay clear of google maps. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to. Any thoughts on how we can merge this with the efforts of hundreds of others doing the same thing are welcome.