How did you get the javascript functions above to work on your site? I’m running into security problems with the XMLHttpRequest accessing Yahoo.

Lela

Thanks to the Royal Mail (or Royal Pain, depending on your stance)
free international geocoding for UK addresses has been tricky. Tom
Anthony has a Googlesearch solution but I haven’t been able to
translate it into a server version. However, have managed to do so
with your URL. Here it is. A bit quick and dirty but it works. Note
that Yahoo is a bit finicky with the translation and it might take
a few combinations of street/city/region/country/pc to get one that
returns a lat, lng. So passing an array of these to the routine so
it can carry out variations may work better.

function getLatLng($addr) {
Global $arr;
$arr=array(); // reset $arr
$URL=”http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?location=”.urlencode($addr).
“&_id=omPLHX3y2xGrjcwzdbq02Q&_run=1&_render=json”;
$addressData = file_get_contents($URL);
preg_replace_callback(“/\”(lat|lon)\”:\”(.*?)\”/six”,
“JSON_decode”,$addressData);
return $arr;
}
// callback function for getLatLng function is called twice:
// when a match is found for “lat”:”nnnnnn” and “lon”:”nnnn”
// (you may have a better way of unraveling the JSON data)

function JSON_decode($m) {
Global $arr;
$arr[$m[1]]=$m[2]; //
}
#########################
list($lat,$lng)=getLatLng($someaddress);
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