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user166683
user166683

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Physical Address to GeoLocation UK

Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I have found several that convert UK Postcodes into Geolocation. But I need the addresses listed as on Globrix.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8035

Answers (3)

C Blanchard
C Blanchard

Reputation: 1063

Update for information relating UK geolocations in 2020. Since 2009:

  • Google's Geocoder has gotten an order of magnitude more expensive in 2018. It's ~0.5c per search with no free tier
  • Office for National Statistics have released a free postcode directory called ONSPD. This means if you have the postcode of your address, you can resolve a geolocation accurate to the postcode centroid (this may be 10-100m or so out). There's a free public service API available at https://postcodes.io which allows you to forward or reverse geocode a postcode. There are also public docker data and application images which allow you to host this easily
  • If you're interested in Rooftop accurate geocodes, a change in Ordnance Survey licensing in 2020 has meant its much simpler and cheaper to access geolocations for almost every premise in Great Britain from Ordnance Survey by combining it with Royal Mail PAF (Postcode Address File). As of September 2020, I think https://ideal-postcodes.co.uk is currently the only company to offer complete and authoritative rooftop geolocations under these new rules. It's likely other PAF vendors will catch up over the coming years.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of postcodes.io and work for ideal-postcodes.co.uk

Upvotes: 0

skaffman
skaffman

Reputation: 403531

The Google Maps API provides a geocoder webservice that you can actually use independently of Google Maps itself. You send it the address/postcode, and it responds with a lat/long plus disambiguated addresses. We use it server-side in the UK to do address lookup. It's incredibly quick, too.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/index.html

Upvotes: 5

Richy B.
Richy B.

Reputation: 1617

http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk should be able to help with this. Alternatively, you can buy the "PAF" (Postcode Address File) from the Royal Mail, but it is expensive.

Upvotes: 1

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