DJ Adams

Postcode bookmarklet

We’ve been spending time recently looking at property in the North West.

I found myself often cutting and pasting a property’s postcode from the property particulars page into Multimap to see exactly where it was.

I’d been meaning to get around to making that easier when I saw Erik Benson point at FlickReplacr, a cool bookmarklet toy. I had a look at the Javascript inside, and on seeing this bit,

var g=window.getSelection();

I realised that it was exactly what I could use to make my postcode lookups smoother.

So herewith a little bookmarklet:

location.href='http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc='+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection())

As with other bookmarklets, just drag this link to your toolbar; then whenever you see a postcode on a page, select it with the mouse, and click the bookmarklet.