Golden Postbox Locator
I made this!
Sooooo as you all know, each hometown of every Olympic gold medalist has got a postbox that's been painted gold. But where is your nearest golden postbox I hear you ask? Well, wonder no more as I have developed a page that will tell you!
Excuse the Straight-Outta-1998 design. And it only works over wi-fi.
(, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:22, Reply)
Surely
there's someone closer than Manchester to me in That London.
(, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:33, Reply)
oops
It gets the user's location based on their IP address, so there's bound to be some mistakes! ;)
(, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:35, Reply)
Nice bit of hackery
Where do you get the postbox locations from?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:39,
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The hardcore way.
I had to go to the Royal Mail's gold postbox site - www.goldpostboxes.com - and then had to type the street names into Google Maps one by one to get the coordinates for each one to enter into a database!
(, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:41, Reply)
Dedication's what you need
If you wanna be a POSTBOX LOCATOOOOOOORRRR!!!!!
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:51,
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Good stuff
How easy would it be to have a 'Search for location' field? Sorry...I know nothing about these things.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:40,
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Probably quite easy! To be honest I made the page as a small project while I learn PHP/MySQL, but I'm sure I could implement one relatively easily if I tried! ;)
(, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:45, Reply)
Fair enough
Good work man. Way beyond what I'd be able to do. Keep it up! :)
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:50,
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Good Stuff!
But Skelton's is out.
You need to be about 3 miles due north
(, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 11:28, Reply)
Mine's out? The terrible bastard.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Wed 15 Aug 2012, 13:06,
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