Grid reference of exchange

Is this data available anywhere?

Adrian

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:59:51 +0100 and in article <BB67F9F7.129B6%
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: (b) whether you feel it is actually useful to give terrorists the exact
: location of all the UK telephone exchanges to allow then to figure out how
: to do the most damage .

Erm, the location of telephone exchanges is publicly available.

http://www.farina1.com/btexchanges.htm
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chris

chris wrote:
> Erm, the location of telephone exchanges is publicly available.
>
> http://www.farina1.com/btexchanges.htm

Then getting the postcode from the above site and popping it into
streetmap.co.uk can give you the OS grid ref, as the OP wanted.
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doesent seem 2 have all of them on it.
i can think of 2 that are missing


"chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:59:51 +0100 and in article <BB67F9F7.129B6%
> (E-Mail Removed)>, Graham in Melton said...
> : (b) whether you feel it is actually useful to give terrorists the exact
> : location of all the UK telephone exchanges to allow then to figure out
how
> : to do the most damage .
>
> Erm, the location of telephone exchanges is publicly available.
>
> http://www.farina1.com/btexchanges.htm
> --
> chris

"Peter taylor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> doesent seem 2 have all of them on it.
> i can think of 2 that are missing


I can think of 2 counties missing..... Suffolk/Norfolk?

"Gareth Davies" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:59:51 +0100 and in article <BB67F9F7.129B6%
> > (E-Mail Removed)>, Graham in Melton said...
> > : (b) whether you feel it is actually useful to give terrorists the
exact
> > : location of all the UK telephone exchanges to allow then to figure out
> how
> > : to do the most damage .
> >
> > Erm, the location of telephone exchanges is publicly available.
> >
> > http://www.farina1.com/btexchanges.htm
>
> Nah, incomplete list and incomplete information. Try Royal Mail
> postcode/address database using keywords "British Telecom" or "Telephone
> Exchange" as search name (can't remember which).

Has anyone actually managed to get the Royal Mail postcode <-> address
translater on their web site to work since they made it a site where you
have to register? Ever since then, it's spent ages trying to download the
search page - and after a few minutes my browser times out.

"Nick Hall" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> chris wrote:
> > Erm, the location of telephone exchanges is publicly available.
> >
> > http://www.farina1.com/btexchanges.htm
>
> Then getting the postcode from the above site and popping it into
> streetmap.co.uk can give you the OS grid ref, as the OP wanted.

I've always wondered. How do sites like Streetmap translate postcodes into
grid refs to display on a map. Is it simply done by a massive lookup table
or does the postcode actually encode the approximate grid ref within the
second half of the code?

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:03:10 UTC, "Martin Underwood" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> Has anyone actually managed to get the Royal Mail postcode <-> address
> translater on their web site to work since they made it a site where you
> have to register? Ever since then, it's spent ages trying to download the
> search page - and after a few minutes my browser times out.

I probably use it two or three times a week. My browser is Mozilla.

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:03:10 GMT and in article
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said...
: Has anyone actually managed to get the Royal Mail postcode <-> address
: translater on their web site to work since they made it a site where you
: have to register?

I use Autoroute Express, works perfectly for finding an exchange from
that list.

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chris

Martin Underwood wrote:

> "Nick Hall" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>>chris wrote:
>>
>>>Erm, the location of telephone exchanges is publicly available.
>>>
>>>http://www.farina1.com/btexchanges.htm
>>>
>>Then getting the postcode from the above site and popping it into
>>streetmap.co.uk can give you the OS grid ref, as the OP wanted.
>>
>
> I've always wondered. How do sites like Streetmap translate postcodes into
> grid refs to display on a map. Is it simply done by a massive lookup table
> or does the postcode actually encode the approximate grid ref within the
> second half of the code?
>


Massive lookup table. The OS mapping stuff has a huge database of just
about everything anyone has ever entered on a map. Like pipe runs,
houses etc. They run very hard tryng to keep it up to date. You can, if
you spend serious money, get this data and print out whatever type of
map - e.g. contours, rodas, pipes, etc - that you want.

My guess is streetmap have a license to use some of it.


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