Postcode mapping
This 'Postcode mapping' section offers detailed information to either represent a point with in each postcode or to accurately identify the outline of each individual postcode area.Although useful visually when combined with a mapping background, the data becomes most useful when used with appropriate software. Solutions for point data include identifying a location for a delivery vehicle to head for whilst the identification of specific postcode outlines can be linked to detailed data to indicate the distribution of store customers or potential customers from a particular income bracket; enabling targeted marketing.
Postcode information is also available through our site as a surprisingly inexpensive overlay to most of our mapping products with area, district and sector (e.g. in Oxford OX, OX1 and OX1 1 represent one example of each of the three levels respectively).
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Ordnance Survey Code-PointCode-Point provides a precise geographical location for each postcode unit in Great Britain. There are approximately 1.7 million postcode units in England, Scotland and Wales.Data is supplied in a csv listing format. |
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Ordnance Survey Code-Point with polygonsAs there is no real world feature to describe the boundary of a postcode unit, the Code-Point unit boundaries have been created to best represent the postcode unit footprint in a way that allows the dataset to be used for many different applications.Each postcode polygon contains all delivery points within the same postcode. |