https://github.com/mysociety/mapit

A web service to map postcodes to administrative boundaries and more
https://github.com/mysociety/mapit

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A web service to map postcodes to administrative boundaries and more

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mysociety/mapit
• Owner: mysociety
• License: other
• Created: 2010-06-22T16:36:01.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-09T08:30:12.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T00:54:15.718Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 5.01 MB
• Stars: 269
• Watchers: 27
• Forks: 88
• Open Issues: 44
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.txt
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
MapIt

=====

MapIt is an open source project to help people run a web service that maps

geographical points to administrative areas. It is useful for anyone who has

the co-ordinates of a point on Earth, and who needs to find out what country,

region, city, constituency, or state it lies within. It’s also great for

looking up the shapes of all those boundaries.

It was created in 2003 by `mySociety `__, a UK

charity, for use by their various tools needing admin area lookup.

Installation

------------

MapIt can be installed as a Django app, or as a standalone server. For full

details, please see our site at http://code.mapit.mysociety.org/ for help

and documentation.

Examples

--------

`mySociety `__ runs public installations of MapIt that

you might be able to use:

    * `MapIt Global `_ - global boundaries

      from the `OpenStreetMap `_ project.

    * `MapIt UK `_ - UK boundaries from various

      sources.

The above are free for non-commercial, low-volume use. For details of

what constitutes "low-volume", and for commercial licensing arrangements,

please consult `MapIt pricing `_ .

Rate limiting

-------------

Usage is rate limited by default; clients may be rate limited by IP address

or by a User Token passed in the User-Agent: header. Clients may be excluded

from the effects of rate limiting via the RATE_LIMIT option in the

configuration file.