Getting latitude and longitude for a given UK road intersection

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Published on 2010-05-15T11:58:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 12:04 UTC
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I want to be able to convert the intersection of two road in the UK, and get the coordinates of that location.

Google only has data for road intersections in the US.

Is there any way to get data on road intersections in the UK?

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