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ADDRESS-POINT
ADDRESS-POINT® locates residential, business and public postal addresses in Great Britain. It is created by matching information from our digital map databases with more than 27 million addresses recorded in the Royal Mail® Postcode Address File (PAF®).
It is an ideal tool for a company wishing to improve the provision of its services or to target specific customers for a marketing campaign.
Here ADDRESS-POINT is overlaid on OS MasterMap® Topography Layer.
Features and benefits
- Each address has a unique identifier to make searching for an address in the database quicker.
- Ideal for use with a range of our products, including OS MasterMap and backdrop mapping.
- Provides a status flag to define the quality and accuracy of each address.
Suggested uses
- Asset management
- Service provision and planning
- Georeferencing
- Marketing and sales targeting
Technical details
Format: Comma Separated Value (CSV).
Data structure: Vector.
Scale: 1:1250 (urban areas), 1:2500 (rural areas) and 1:10 000 (remote areas).
Update frequency: Quarterly – February, May, August and November (full re-supply).
Supply: CD.
Coverage: Great Britain.
Useful links
User guide and technical specification
Migration Licence Request Form
If you wish to migrate from an Address Product to an AddressBase Product please contact your account manager or our Customer Service Centre.
