Code-Point® Open

Posted By DCLG on 01/04/2010 - 10:10

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Code-Point Open is a postal geography dataset that features a set of geographically referenced points that represent each of the 1.7 million postcode units in Great Britain. The centre of the postcode unit is derived from the precise coordinates of addresses sharing the same postcode unit in Ordnance Survey’s large-scale address database.
Licence detail: UK Crown Copyright with data.gov.uk rights; see www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata/licence for further information

Overview

Released
2010-04-01
Last updated
2009-11
Update frequency
Quarterly
Tags
Department Department for Communities and Local Government
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Details

Name
os-code-point-open
Licence
OKD Compliant::UK Crown Copyright with data.gov.uk rights
Version
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Geographic coverage
Geographical granularity
Great Britain
Temporal granularity
-
Agency
Ordnance Survey
Precision
1m resolution
Taxonomy url
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Temporal coverage to
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Temporal coverage from
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Categories
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Contact information

Team
Ordnance Survey Customer Service Centre

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Comments (5)

Northern Ireland

Will this be expanded to include Northern Ireland at some point?
If so, when?

It's Great but...

It's great to see some of this data being opened up finally but it's worth reiterating that its only a GB dataset which excludes Northern Ireland, The Channel Islands and The Isle of Man. I wrote a bit about the problem.

Essentially in it's incomplete state, it's unusable for any serious application

Other formats

This is truly excellent.

I have imported and cleaned the data (removing " characters from some postcodes), trimmed it down to just postcode, long + lat and converted it into the following formats:

SQL Server 2005 (separate lon/lat cols)
SQL Server 2008 (using geography type)
MongoDB - in a format where you can use the its spatial features

Data and code is available from:

http://github.com/HowardvanRooijen/Ordnance-Survey-OpenData

Well done

Seriously well done!!!!!

Post Code Data

Excellent to see this data freely available. Opportunities to build applications using current or home locations are now significantly increased.