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Code-Point

Code-Point overlaid on OS MasterMap Topography Layer map extractCode-Point® provides a precise geographical location for each postcode unit in the United Kingdom. It also contains additional information such as PO boxes and the total number of addresses, both domestic and non-domestic, in each postcode unit.

Ideal if you need to locate postcodes rather than individual addresses using a geographic information system, perhaps for marketing planning or crime pattern analysis.

Here Code-Point is overlaid on OS MasterMap® Topography Layer.

Features and benefits

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  • An economical planning or marketing tool if you don’t require individual addresses.
  • Includes National Health Service and local government area codes down to ward level.

Suggested uses

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  • Market analysis and profiling
  • Statistical analysis
  • Crime pattern analysis
  • Health / Epidemiology profiling
  • Resource allocation
  • Sales targeting
  • Route planning

Technical details

Format: Comma separated values (CSV).

Data structure: Vector.

Attributes: Includes postcode units, eastings, northings, NHS® health authority codes, administrative codes, PO box indicator and types of delivery points.

Update frequency: Quaterly – February, May, August and November.

Supply: CD.

Coverage: Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Useful links

User guide and technical specification

FAQs

Pricing and ordering

Guide to NHS codes

CSV column headers - for users of the CSV file format wishing to look at the data in a tabular structure, this is a spreadsheet with the attribute names

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