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[Post New]18/07/2013 06:29:20
    Subject: Inconsistencies in UK postal code search
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mimbert



Joined: 17/07/2013 17:29:19
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I received some errors with UK postal codes. For example with the following string: "B315bp".

Searching for the code as is returns no result:
http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeLookupJSON?postalcode=B315bp&country=GB&username=*

But searching with a space returns the expected result:
http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeLookupJSON?postalcode=B31%205bp&country=GB&username=*

While with Canada postal codes, which have the same format as UK ones, both will return a result:
http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeLookupJSON?postalcode=h2j2k6&country=CA&username=*
http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeLookupJSON?postalcode=h2j%202k6&country=CA&username=*

Of course I can inject a space in the string whenever I receive a UK postal code, but it seems inconsistent to me. Anyone else noticed this? How do you deal with it?
 
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