http://data.gov.uk/dataset/os-50k-gazetteer
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/docs/licence.pdf

The lines are in the manner of "126990:SU4557:Ivory
Fm:SU44:51:18.9:1:20.8:157500:445500:W:HP:Hants:Hampshire:FM:01-MAR-1993:I:174:0:0".
This is the sort of data I'd like to be able to access via my IRC bot,
phenny, but I'm not sure about options for making the application.

The problem is that I don't really want to host data or code anymore
because it tends to be fragile, nor do I particularly want to program
things. So I looked into Heroku and Google App Engine anyway, but the
maximum Heroku database size is 5 MB, and Google App Engine just looks
like a nuisance:

http://www.espians.com/why-app-engine-is-not-appropriate-for-bootstrap.html

A 1 MB datastore limit is really crazy, I don't want to have to
federate data for something as small as this. And besides, this is 30
MB of data, so it wouldn't leave much room for deploying other
potential apps. Strange limits and so on, for a company already
hosting the whole web in cache form.

The kind of output that I was thinking of was name matches for
regexps, Google Maps Aerial, Google Maps Streetview, OS Get-a-Map, and
Geograph. Perhaps somebody else wants to pick this up and run with it?
More details about phenny web services here:

http://wiki.github.com/nslater/phenny-ws/

On 3 Apr 2010, at 12:35, Sean B. Palmer wrote:

> The lines are in the manner of "126990:SU4557:Ivory
> Fm:SU44:51:18.9:1:20.8:157500:445500:W:HP:Hants:Hampshire:FM:01-MAR-1993:I:174:0:0".
> This is the sort of data I'd like to be able to access via my IRC bot,
> phenny, but I'm not sure about options for making the application.

I exported and cleaned up the data, but it's just too much to work with for my free time.

I did however manage to hook up the Talis API to Phenny.

Here's an example:

02:52 < nslater> .o map coleridge
02:52 < phenny> http://tinyurl.com/yar57rq

Suggestions for improvements, or better yet - patches - are more than welcome.

> The kind of output that I was thinking of was name matches for
> regexps, Google Maps Aerial, Google Maps Streetview, OS Get-a-Map, and
> Geograph. Perhaps somebody else wants to pick this up and run with it?
> More details about phenny web services here:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/nslater/phenny-ws/

I have moved the project to:

http://github.com/nslater/oblique