RoadDistanceFinda web-Service

Road Distance calculations from the Graticule server

Using our online pay-per-hit subscription service you can include road distance calculations on your website or within your own in-house applications without needing to set-up and maintain your own server. The webservice allows you to determine the distance by road between any two given postcodes within Great Britain using high quality road map data.

• Features
  • Use the published WSDL file to make a single Simple Object Application Protocol(SOAP) call to our server.
  • Users enter start and end postcodes in Great Britain and receive the computed distance by road and off-peak drive-time.
  • Operates on road maps of the UK.
  • Uses standard HTTP over port 80 to avoid issues with firewalls, etc.
  • Easy to integrate with your existing website and business applications.
  • Sample code is provided for ASP.Net and PHP. Works with any SOAP enabled language.


• Benefits
  • Estimate delivery charges and prepare quotations quickly based upon journey distances.
  • Locate the nearest resource based upon actual road distances rather than as the crow files.
  • Confirm mileage claims by distance travelled through mutliple calls to keep costs down.
  • Include quotation systems or nearest store locators on your website, direct for the customer.
  • Integrate into your own application, anywhere with an Internet connection has the lookup right at their fingertips.
  • No need to fiddle with tricky firewalls, saving on setup time.
  • Remove the need for huge datasets, large licence costs and maintainance time by allowing us, to host your servic.
  • Manage your own account online including account balance, allowed hosts and useage logs.
  • Spread the costs of purchase over the year, rather than a single bulk payment.


• Data
  • Uses Collins Bartholomew Road Maps of Great Britain
  • Uses the latest Royal Mail postcode unit data updated twice a year.


• Technical Information
  • Runs over the standard HTTP port (80) with an Internet connection.
  • Capable of being combined with your business applications, websites and any technolgy that uses SOAP.
  • Sample source code and client applications avaliable (PHP and .NET) with wrapper-classes.
  • If you would like to have a demonstration, please contact our sales team.


• Pricing and Licencing
  • Licences based on your usage figures.
  • Please contact us for a quote.
  • 60 days of technical support included with the first purchase.


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