Anyone had any joy with these?

Trying to get these to display in a web page using a town name rather than a postcode – I assume that this can be done?

C# CodeBehind is as follows:

string apiKey = “myKey”;
string docPath = @”http://api.zoopla.co.uk/api/v1/area_value_graphs?postcode=GU11&output_type=outcode&” + apiKey;

// Read document
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(docPath)

// Extract information as required

Works beautifully as is, but I can’t figure out how to change postcode=GU11 to town=Guildford.

Thanks in advance!

I doubt it. A postcode is a very clearly defined spatial search area, a town name isn’t.

Maybe you can wildcard all GU postcodes.

Thanks jam bo – that’s a thought…

A much faster response than I got on the Zoopla forum! (No reply after three hours there, despite being told by Zoopla that the best way to get a response was to post there 🙁 )

The trouble with wildcarding postcodes is that it would give far too great an area – to continue with the example, GU is HUGE and average values in so large an area would be relatively meaningless.

In mixed areas average values are meaningless anyway, unless you’re looking at trends. . The difference between a samll flat & a large semi in adjacent streets can be a factor af 4.

In my area, large houses are being split into flats, so the average purchase price is going down while the value of property is going up. Go figure,

Not sure exactly what you need, but try here for starters:

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/

Select the area you want, then pick the dataset Housing > Changes of Ownership by Dwelling Price. There are various data items there to choose from – e.g. mean price in Guildford local authority area in 2009 was £349,775. Although as above, averages over a large area aren’t that useful, try drilling down to MSOA or LSOA for more detail.

Not as cool as some of the London data tools though:

http://data.london.gov.uk/visualisations/atlas/msoa-atlas-2012/atlas.html

Thanks all – some interesting and cool stuff there MrGreedy!

I am actually writing a web page which will display stuff like this:

Area Data

I need to be able to use whatever area the web page user has requested, so that bit needs to be dynamic.

It looks as though the ONS’s site might allow me to extract data – useful! Trouble is, the designers of the site I’m working on have used the Zoopla stuff and that’s now what my client wants!

Keep the ideas coming – all input appreciated.

Cheers