UK Postcode to Lat/Long for GPS

A small tool to convert a UK postcode to Lat/Long degrees for GPS

Description

In UK, the database to convert a postcode to the latitude and longitude degrees is not free. It is owned by the Post Office, who sells it to companies for various products. This may be the reason why so many GPS systems do not support a postcode search. It always takes me a long time to figure out the latitude and longitude degrees of a destination where I wish to go. Then, I found this website providing the conversion service and I also learnt from some File Exchange submissions on how to program MATLAB to get information from a webpage. This comes to the small tool. Wish some of you find it usefull.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)

[Tom Tierney]

download missing?

[Yi Cao]

Dear Tom,

Thanks for your comments. This small tool does not require any download. Simply supply postcode to the function, it will tell you the latitude and longitude degrees of the location represented by the postcode. If you still have difficulty to use it, please let me know more details.

[V. Poor]