Rapid Addressing

Put in the postcode - Get the address

Address Management

Rapid addressing; postcode identification and more

Mailing List Generation

Build mailing lists for bulk mailing for free

Gazetteer

Lists of all towns, villages, places and streets  in the UK, with their size and position

Where's My Nearest?

Find the local branches of a business

Map Referencing

Pinpoint the map position of a postcode

Web Use

Get a visitor's address and position from their postcode

News

UK Gazetteer relaunch

 12 May 2012

At the Internet World 2012 show at Earl's Court we officially announced the relaunch of our Gazetteer product.  This is now provided as a webservice and is enormously extended in coverage.

Two separate but linked services are available.  The first is our Place Name gazetteer which covers over 60,000 places in the  UK.  This includes even the smallest settlements; metropolitan districts such as Highgate and Mayfair and railway, London underground and DLR stations. Selection of a name gives you its map reference. This service is invaluable for all occasions where a postcode can't be used, such as finding a property or a hotel in a strange town.

For more precise use, we offer a parallel Street Name gazetteer covering all 900,000 streets in the UK. A centre and search radius can be passed to the webservice so that only local streets will be returned. This makes it ideal for deliveries, taxi services and so on.

For a demonstration of both of these facilities see the demonstration site at www.bifrost.co/gazetteer.

Administrative Area code changes

7 October 2011

 The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has changed the coding system for administrative regions.

In the past, a 6-character code was used where each pair of characters is assigned to one level of government. For example, the code 23/UF/HC translates as County Council of Gloucestershire; District Council of Stroud; Electoral Ward of Painswick.

The ONS has introduced a completely new coding system using 9-character codes. The equivalent of the above example is now:- E10000013 / E07000082 / E05004395.

Administrative codes are used in the Postzon data set of our products.  The new codes were used with effect from the Quarter 4, 2011 issue.

In addition, the government introduced electoral boundary changes mainly in the first half of 2011. The ONS have released spreadsheets giving the old codes and the new equivalents before the boundary changes took place and after they were introduced.

AddressList review

13 October 2011

Database Marketing magazine have given our mailing list generation system, AddressList, a very favourable review. See it here and get full details of AddressList here.

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Latest data issues

3 April 2012 

Addressing data:

We are currently shipping the Royal Mail data for Quarter 2, 2012 and the Ordnance Survey data for September 2011. Both these data sets now use the new ONS codes for Administrative regions.
See the Code Changes news item for more details.
If you are an existing user, you can visit www.addressgeo.co.uk and input your licence key to download the latest version of the software and data.