Software to calculate distance for admissions

[TMBS]

Hi

 

Does anyone know of some software that we can use in school to calculate distance? Ideally with:

 

As the crow flies

House number and postcode

Bulk upload

 

Our LEA have stopped offering their service/software so we now have to source our own!

 

Thanks

[6Foot2]

Perhaps this?

 

Link: Distance Between Full UK Postcodes

 

...Use the text box below to input bulk postcodes and find the 'as the crow flies' distances between them. There is a limit of 200 pairs at a time. Add them in the format postcode1,postcode2 per line. Once processing is complete, the distance is appended as a 3rd column on the CSV list. You can toggle the units (miles/km) using the switch above...

[mavhc]

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html#CODEPO to download a csv file of postcodes

[mavhc]

Extract the zip you get, put this python program in the CSV folder and run it

http://sprunge.us/LMFX

 

Let me know if it works/you want changes

[TMBS]

Thanks! I have the postcodes though. Just need to input them into something that will then calculate the distance from them to our school.

[mavhc]

Thanks! I have the postcodes though. Just need to input them into something that will then calculate the distance from them to our school.

 

Right, that download is all the postcodes in uk along with the x and y coordinates of them, my python program will load the csv files in and calculate the distances for you