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Postcode Points and Geocoders - UK

National Land & Property Gazetteer

 
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This unique dataset is sourced from individual local authorities across England and Wales, verified by local research and consolidated into a national dataset. Containing over 32 million residential, business, and non-mailing addresses and unique geographical co-ordinates, the NLPG is the definitive national address list that provides unique identification of land and property. Includes every item of land and property with full official address, address aliases, historic addresses, and proposed addresses. As well as mailing addresses, a range of real world objects are included, such as electricity sub-stations, cemeteries, woodlands, golf courses, and vacant land plots. Maintained on an ongoing basis, the NLPG is the most up-to-date source of address information for England and Wales. Available for custom geographical subsets e.g. local authorities - please call for your particular area of interest. Internet licence also available. Annual licence.
 

OS MasterMap® Address Layer 2, GB

£28,450
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Great Britain’s most comprehensive and accurate national spatial address dataset includes the following unique features; alternative geographic addresses, building name aliases, Welsh alternatives, classifications (each address is classified as either residential or commercial, with further details based on trade name e.g. Barclays Bank – bank, and W H Smith – retail), objects without postal addresses (e.g. churches, community centres, depots, masts) and multi-occupation without postal addresses (e.g. 'Flat A, Flat B' at 1 London Road). This dataset fully integrates with other OS MasterMap layers, and can be cross referenced to external datasets (such as Royal Mail’s Unique Delivery Point Reference Number). Regional subsets available – call to discuss your requirements. Annual licence includes updates.
 
OS Address-Point, GB
 

OS ADDRESS-POINT®, GB

£19,875
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This dataset uniquely defines and locates every residential, business and public postal address in Great Britain. With over 27 million individual geocodes, ADDRESS-POINT is a powerful tool for planning, marketing and database management applications, making analysis possible at the highest level of detail. The product is available in your GIS format of choice and compatible with high resolution street mapping. Annual licence.
 

OSNI Pointer, Northern Ireland

£8,340
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This dataset uniquely defines and locates every residential, business and public postal address in Northern Ireland. Annual licence for corporate use.
 

MapMechanics Code-Point, UK

£350
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Geocoding file, with a target accuracy to within 1m of the address closest to the centre of the postcode. The dataset of choice when geocoding points for use with street level data or within small areas of interest such as 5 minute catchments. The x and y co-ordinates are provided in British National Grid and Lat/Long for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Your own geocoded data will lie much closer to the correct street than with other files which are derived from the less accurate Postzon files. Also includes historic postcodes from every release of Code-Point since 2001. In addition MapMechanics has enhanced this product so that it accepts a variety of postcode formats, e.g. TW8 8JA or TW 8 8JA. Annual licence includes quarterly updates.
 

MapMechanics Code-Point Plus, UK

£735
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Offers all the advantages of MapMechanics Code-Point (geocoding file, with a target accuracy to within 1m of the address closest to the centre of the postcode), with additional fields supplying delivery point counts (residential, non residential, and large user), together with the county, 2001 census output area, district and ward codes where these are available. Use this detailed dataset to count up number of leaflets required for door drops or to calculate market penetration. Append codes to your own data to facilitate aggregation to other health or administrative geographies. Annual licence includes quarterly updates.
 

Unit postcode points, UK

£425
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Use this file to place your own postcoded data on the map to within 100m of the first house in the postcode, or use it to navigate around your map using just the postcode. Provides x,y centroids for UK unit postcodes. Derived from the Royal Mail Postzon file, MapMechanics has implemented statistical techniques to ensure every postcode has a co-ordinate value. The file contains over 600,000 historic postcodes to allow matches for out of date customer data. In response to users’ requests, MapMechanics has enhanced this product so that it can be referenced against a variety of postcode formats, e.g.TW8 8JA or TW 8 8JA. Annual licence fee includes six monthly updates. Quarterly updates included in annual fee.
 
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Unit postcodes with delivery points, UK

£625
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Provides everything in the Unit Postcode Points file (x,y centroids to within about 100m of the first house in each postcode) and so can be used for geocoding, but additionally includes counts of residential, non-residential and large user delivery points, providing a useful broad estimation of the consumer and business population. Annual licence fee includes six monthly updates. Quarterly updates included in annual fee.
 

Full Postcode Address File, postcode level, UK

£850
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The Postcode Address File contains 1.7 million postcodes. It includes details of UK addresses including organisation, sub-building name, building name, building number range, thoroughfare name, locality, post town, county and postcode. Use in your chosen GIS to plot addresses and find all those within a specified distance of a point or route to generate mailing lists or addresses for leaflet drops. Also use as very detailed gazetteer to locate individual addresses. This product is supplied in Microsoft Access format as standard. Other formats are available on request. Annual licence fee includes six monthly updates. Quarterly updates are available for an extra 25% of list price per annum.
 

Full Postcode Address File, premise level, UK

£850
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The Postcode Address File contains over 28 million delivery points, therefore this premise level file is a very large dataset (over 6GB of data) supplied in zipped .csv format. It includes details of UK addresses including organisation, sub-building name, building name, individual building numbers, thoroughfare name, locality, post town, county and postcode. Use to generate leaflet drop lists or in any project where detailed individual building addresses are required. Each records is categorised as residential, non-residential, or large business. Also includes a total of delivery point counts, per postcode, by user type. Geocoding is at postcode level, but address information is at premise level. Annual licence fee includes six monthly updates. Quarterly updates are available for an extra 25% of list price per annum.
 

MapMechanics Postcode-to-Output Area Look-Up Table, UK

£825
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Essential file to link your own postcoded customer data to Census geography. This file enables you to find which Output Areas (OAs) each of your unit postcode records lies in and thus to undertake analysis at the micro level, e.g. calculate variations in market penetration for very small catchments. The postcodes are positioned to within approximately 100m of the first house in the address range. Annual licence.
 

MapMechanics sector, district & area points, UK

£250
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Use this file to place your sector, district or area level data on the map or to navigate around it. Created by MapMechanics, this file provides centroids for UK postcode sectors, districts and areas. The x,y centroid is the median of all the unit postcodes in a particular sector. The medians for the x and y are calculated independently - an approach found to be a statistically robust method for deriving postcode sector centroids. Price given is per annum and it includes six monthly updates.
 

Geoplan Pro Sector, District & Area Points, UK

£300
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Derived from and compatible with the Geoplan Pro postcode sector district and area boundary products. These postcode point locations provide the geographic centre of each postcode boundary in the UK. Perpetual Licence
 
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Postcode Sector Delivery Point Counts, UK

£150
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Supplement your postcode sector data with this useful data set provides delivery point information for each of the UK’s 9,500 postcode sectors. Fields provided are; postcode sector ID i.e. ‘RG1 3’, total of residential delivery points, total of non-residential delivery points, total of ‘large user’ delivery points, together with an overall total for the whole postcode sector. This information is crucial for applications like route allocation and territory management, especially for mail delivery applications. Annual licence.
 

Not Yet Built

£1,200
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This detailed data offers a powerful source of market intelligence. “Not Yet Built” offers users the means to identify postcodes that are under construction or still at the planning stage. Now you can know exactly where your future customers are going to live and work, estimate future properties in your area of interest and stay ahead of your competitors in terms of planning and business development. Geocoded by MapMechanics, this annual licence provides monthly updates for use in your chosen database or mapping system.