What I would do, I think, is have a map (e.g. google map), click on a
location and say "is their cable here?". It would then find the nearest
postcode to that lat/lng and query VirginMedia.com to see if cable is in
that area. I did this manually when I was house hunting recently, looked up
in the region of 100 post codes (manually) and didn't have any issues; but I
wouldn't be happy just querying the entire postcode DB against VM. If the
response is negative you might want to auto query a few points around where
you click - e.g. a half mile away in a number of directions - to see if this
is just one street that doesn't have cable.
I found that a lot of SO16 seems to have cable, but didn't find any cable in
SO17 or SO18.
Replace POSTCODE_HERE below with the postcode (don't forget the space)
curl -s -d "standaloneChecker=true&PostcodeCheckerURL=
allyours.virginmedia.com&postcode=POSTCODE_HERE" "
http://shop.virginmedia.com/check-your-postcode/" | grep "Virgin National
broadband area" > /dev/null
SUCCESS=$?
if [ "$SUCCESS" == "0" ]; then
echo "No broadband here";
else
echo "Possibly broadband here?";
fi;
Cheers,
Benjie
On 9 January 2011 11:40, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hampshire-bounces@??? [mailto:hampshire-
> > bounces@???] On Behalf Of Lisi
> > Sent: 09 January 2011 11:08
> > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cable coverage
> >
> > It hadn't occurred to me that he wanted it for commercial purposes!
> >
> I don't! I want to know which area is the best bet in terms of cable TV
> (and therefore broadband) coverage.
>
> Thanks for everyone's replies and a postcode to long/lat database would be
> of some use - but what I was really after is the method by which I could
> investigate the result for each postcode in the UK to see whether it was a
> yes or no as regards cable coverage.
>
> Is it possible to repeatedly query a web database armed with a complete
> list
> of (in this case) postcodes?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
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