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Is anyone aware of a free web service which allows me to translate uk postcodes to easting and northings. I found a website where I can use screen scraping but perhaps there is a nice FREE web service out there. Thanks!
Christian
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It consists of a numeric character followed by two alphabetic characters. The numeric character identifies the sector within the postal district. The alphabetic characters then define one or more properties within the sector. For example: PO1 3AX PO refers to the postcode area of Portsmouth.
10 Downing St, London SW1A 2AA, United Kingdom (See map).
It is between three and four characters long. It does include the trailing letter omitted from the district. Examples of Sub-District codes: W1A.
It is a hierarchical system, working from left to right — the first letter or pair of letters represents the area, the following digit or digits represent the district within that area, and so on. Each postcode generally represents a street, part of a street, or a single premises.
The ordnance survey have open sourced their list of postcodes including geographic coordinates (you may have to do some converting though). I haven't used the data myself yet, but I think this fits the bill.
Code-Point Open is a dataset that contains postcode units, each of which have a precise geographical location.
There are approximately 1.7 million postcode units in England, Scotland and Wales. Each postcode unit, such as KY12 8UP or PO14 2RS, contains an average of fifteen adjoining addresses.
Northern Ireland postcodes are not available with Code-Point Open.
Note that due to the nature of the british postcode system, updates happen quite frequently during a year. Make sure you download new versions as they are released.
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Check out NPE Map
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