Post code address finder and sorter
Does anyone know of a site that will allow me to do the following?

I have to drive to nine different addresses in London, but my Sat Nav has no way of sorting them into a "quickest route". All it can do is tell me the quickest route between two points.

Is there a website that I can enter a starting location, finish location and then several addresses in between and ask it to put them into an order of the quickest route and order to do them all in?

Fingers crossed that someone can help me!
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:40, 10 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

Sounds like
a job for Autoroute. Unfortunately I think even then it only works it out in the order you input them. You could use google map to pinpoint them and then put them into Autoroute to give you the best route for the order you think is best.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:44, Reply)

I would look
at a map and guess. It's going to depend on what time your setting off anyway, since traffic in bits of london varies massively over the course of a day.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:53, Reply)

Make sure you've got enough petrol
And just go for it.
( Cawl, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 15:53, Reply)

this?
gebweb.net/optimap/

haven't really tried it, but it might do the job
( plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 16:25, Reply)

Google Maps will do it for you.
Ish. Piece of piss really, just put the lot in, in the order you think might be best, them reorganise based on the route it shows on the map.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 17:12, Reply)

yup
travelling salesman problem. GAZ me the postcodes and I'll show up first in order to throw dried fruit as you go past.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 18:33, Reply)

Travelling salesman?
Pah! i spit on your travelling salesman theory!

In fact I work for a bank and am going around knocking on peoples doors asking why they haven't paid their loans. In North London. At night.

I don't know why I'm worried. I'll be amazed if I haven't been attacked by the 3rd house.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 20:04, Reply)

@plentyofants
That looks pretty good, thank you.

It's not precise (postcodes seem to be about half a mile off everywhere they actually are supposed to be), but it seems pretty nifty otherwise.

Cheers.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 20:10, Reply)

Postcodes
apply to opposite sides of individual streets. IIRC, there's a different code for odds and evens on the same street.

And if the street is long, most mappers pop you in the middle.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Dec 2008, 20:16, Reply)

@no3l
This one was choosing random streets about half a mile or so away.

That said, AA Routefinder seems to do the job spot on. You put a Beginning postcode, an End postcode, and the postcodes you want to visit in between and it throws them all together in the best route.

All I need to do now is convince the IT Nazis that theaa.com isn't a security risk website!
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Tue 9 Dec 2008, 20:19, Reply)