OS GB Postcodes
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What OS GB Postcodes provides you with
Consistent postcode and unit areas
A consistent representative real-world location for every postcode unit and the area it covers, making it easier to analyse patterns, map coverage, and understand how postcodes relate to places.
No ambiguity
Every building is represented by a single, logical postcode geometry. This delivers significantly improved spatial accuracy, clearer analytics, and more intuitive results for users making decisions based on postcode geography.
Full national coverage
Postcodes Unit Areas have been extended to cover land between buildings to ensure full national coverage with no gaps.
Meaningful extents
Postcodes are aligned to the built and natural environment, they don’t cut through buildings or sites, providing a strong foundation for data reporting and analysis.
Accessibility
Accessible via a richer access interface saving time spent on pre-processing data, as spatial extent, format, and projection type can be configured, and records filtered by attribute, for example by number of delivery points.
Use cases
Data integration
OS GB Postcodes enables effective data sharing between central and local government, in turn unlocking effective communication of information to its citizens and customers.
Model population density
Postcode data can styled and visualised, improving accessibility and unlocking new insights when reporting, as an example, for the proposal and provision of new services. OS GB Postcodes enables accurate measurement of customer density, to then predict usage of local networks and services. Analyse service eligibility and route visualisations, to plan and implement accordingly.
Benefitting the land and property sector
OS GB Postcodes can be an asset to numerous agencies, public and private, working in land and property. Insurance and lenders can monitor and manage risk profiles; conduct asset management such as gas and electricity meters across a portfolio; ensure accurate maintenance of title deed records, and much more.