Anyone know the legality of putting the information online with a front end and a search tool?

It was publicly available, after all. I'll bet Virgin Media already have a copy, which is presumably BT's concern.

Some stats about the actual and planned % FTTC coverage in each town would be interesting indeed, all dead easy to do.

Guildford is 1st July.

Should anyone want to turn a list of post codes into a Google Map, I've just found this site:
http://batchgeo.com/

Thanks for the find OP - my Cab is the one I thought it was, with FTTC

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

That spreadsheet is begging to be put into a database and have a simple front end rigged up replacing BT's availability checker with a more usefully detailed one, but I don't suppose they'd be too happy about that.

There used to be a map linked to by a poster on these forums where you put in your address or maybe it was post code and it showed all the cabinets in your area, BT and Virgin Media. It showed the post codes in the area dotted around the map, and you clicked, maybe hovered over, yours and up popped your BT cabinet number.

I think it originated from Openreach like this spreadsheet. Openreach "requested" that the owner of the site hosting it remove it .

http://www.trefor.net/tech-pages/availability-checker/

We've already developed maps, tools, lookups and a front-end all based from this data for our company use on our internal intranet, which we've been using for many months, so yes, everything is do-able, but I suspect BT won't take kindly to it actually being published online (even though I would love to) which is why we've not released it.

As a teaser I can show you one of the internal maps we use to map postcodes to cabinets

http://adsl24.co.uk/files/teaser.jpg

James

Edited by deleted (Thu 05-May-11 21:02:18)

In reply to a post by GaryPower:

In reply to a post by mikecrawford80:

File now seems to be password protected, any chance someone can make it available for download from somewhere? Google docs perhaps?

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_A6u7g4kGHAZWUzZTg...

Done.

doesnt work, cannot upload somewhere valid?

This is what I got from the spreadsheet yesterday. My cab is nearly finished (9 months behind) and xhecker states 500Kb down 100Kb up

NIORM ORMEAU, BELFAST BT8 8LQ {NIORM}{p33} 0 100 26.28 NI 5b YES FTTC

'Milltown Estate' is your cabinet. It was due to be installed by 30th April 2011. Does it say your cabinet is due to be upgraded or it has been upgraded?

I got this whenever my cabinet was being installed however was too far from it to get FTTC. That '500Kbps down + 100Kbps up' will disappear once your cabinet is enabled.

Edited by deleted (Thu 05-May-11 23:57:55)

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

http://www.trefor.net/tech-pages/availability-checker/

Yes, thanks BatBoy - that was it.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

I suspect that the person with the map had just used the same CSV data, and added a GoogleMap as a front end to it.

BatBoy has just posted the link.

It showed the exact location of each cabinet, with its number. Does google maps give that? I think it could also exclude the Virgin ones.