Identification

Title

Code-Point

Abstract

Code-Point® precisely locates 1.7 million postcode units in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Each unit contains an average of 15 adjoining addresses. For direct marketers, Code-Point® helps you maximise your response rates by targeting customers in the best postcodes for your offering. Code-Point is a powerful insights tool. It shows up geographical hot-spots so you can target local action on, for example, petty crime or disease outbreaks. We give you the split between residential and commercial addresses in each postcode. This lets you work out which areas to target for services like business broadband. Code-Point provides a precise geographical location for each postcode unit in the United Kingdom. It also contains additional information, for example, NHS region and area codes, local government county, district and ward codes, PO boxes and the total number of addresses, both domestic and non-domestic, in each postcode unit. Code-Point includes Gridlink® data. Gridlink is a consortium initiative involving a number of government agencies that have cooperated to improve the consistency and quality of spatially referenced, postcode-based data.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://os.uk/business-government/products/code-point

name: Product description

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

CodePoint

codeSpace

https://os.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Postcode

Administrative codes

Delivery points

PO boxes

Gridlink

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.655

East bounding longitude

1.79

North bounding latitude

60.85

South bounding latitude

49.90

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Great Britain

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Northern Ireland

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

2020-10-01

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-11-01

date type

revision

effective date

2020-11-15

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Code-Point is derived from Gridlink data – ADDRESS-POINT, which was initially created from a comparison of the Royal Mail PAF, Land-Line and the ROADS database datasets from Ordnance Survey and administrative and national health area codes created by ONS, LPS and GROS, but allocated using Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line data and positioned with an Ordnance Survey NGref. It also contains the BT postcodes for Northern Ireland, locations for which are supplied by LPS.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Code-Point is not a compliant INSPIRE Address dataset

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-11-01

degree

true

explanation

Conforms to OS specification

Data format

name of format

GML

version of format

3.2.1

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO160AS

United Kingdon

telephone number

0345 757535

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

https://os.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

OS Data

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO160AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

0345757535

email address

os.data@os.uk

web address

http://os.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-02-05T15:24:12

Metadata language