UK Postcodes

This is the next generation version of http://www.uk-postcodes.com. The functionality is largely unchanged, but improvements include:

• Better codebase (bye bye PHP)
• PostGIS backend
• (Hopefully) better support
• New design
• Easy setup for local installs

Running a local version

I've included all the necessary data in this repo (which I will keep updated). To get this up and running locally (I'm assuming you have Ruby installed).

Install PostgreSQL and PostGIS

If you're running a Mac, the easiest way to install Postgres and PostGIS is to install Postgres.app, otherwise follow the instructions at http://postgis.net/install/. Then do the following:

psql -c 'CREATE USER root with SUPERUSER;' -U postgres
psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE uk_postcodes_development;' -U postgres
psql -d uk_postcodes_development -c 'CREATE SCHEMA postgis; CREATE EXTENSION postgis WITH SCHEMA postgis;' -U postgres

Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:theodi/uk-postcodes.git

Run bundler

bundle install

Run migrations

rake db:migrate

Import the data

rake import:all

(This will take a couple of hours, so go outside and play, or something)

Run the app

rails s

Obviously if you're running this in production, you may need to do some other steps, but these steps should be all you need to get it running locally.