John B wrote:
Kev wrote:
www.streetmap.co.uk will allow you to point at the bit of the road
with the leak and then convert the coordinates to the nearest
postcode.

How does that bit work? It is somewhere near Westholm, Midholm and
Eastholm Close. I can't seem to get it to convert to a postcode.


There's a tiny link below the "ask.com" box in white-on-blue text, just
above the black-on-yellow line that says "all technology copyright BTex
Ltd", which says:

"Location is at 525718E 189047N (N51:35:11 W0:11:12) Click here to
convert/measure coordinates"

If you follow this link, it gives you all kinds of coordinates
including the postcode (and yes, from its levels of visibility it might
as well be in a wardrobe in a cellar behind a sign labelled Beware of
the Leopard).

It's a shame that, despite having really good mapping and lots of
features, Streetmap is so badly designed as to be almost unusable to
the casual reader. Meanwhile, Google Maps is eminently usable, but the
maps are so crap that anyone who tried to rely on them would instantly
become lost forever.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

It worked,its NW11. I was also asking about a legend and I was posted a
link that took me direct to it but I am damned if I can find a legend
when I look up a map.

Kevin