NEW PRICES FROM 1st AUGUST 2005 ON ROYAL MAIL DATA
Postcode Address File (PAF®)
Single User Licence for 1st User £400
Additional Users £300 each
PostZon File
Single User Licence for 1st User £250
Additional Users £150 each
Why
do you need postcode data?
Postcode
data can be a valuable asset to help expand your business.
It can provide a variety of uses in many different aspects
of business applications such as:
Postcode
boundary data can be an essential tool for business in the UK today.
Together with your own business statistics or other information
such as census data, you can easily show spatial business
trends.
The
following example demonstrates how postcode regions can be
used to evaluate sales regions of a company. Each sales region
can be divided by postcode districts (noted by red boundaries & text).
Sales statistics (purple text) within each postcode district
can help identify and locate key sales figures for further
evaluation. Automatically you can see which areas are performing
well! Click on the image for a larger version.
Adding
census data as another layer, you can use postcode regions to determine
which regions have more potential customers.
For example,
showing
the number of people in each postcode region and the percentage
of people earning over £30,000 per year can clearly identify
target areas for sales.
The uses for postcode data in business are endless and it can be a valuable
tool for marketing purposes.
Address Count Growth Business Growth and Residential Growth between 2004 and 2005 as a percentage. Red is highest, blue is a decline. These maps are created using the XYZ Districts with the optional extra address counts, using MapInfo software.
The
XYZ postcode data-sets are derived from the Royal Mail master database.
The XYZ Digital Map Company is an approved reseller
of the Royal Mail
address database which will assure you access to the most
accurate postal data available. Royal Mail data is updated monthly,
and we can provide
quarterly updates of the Royal Mail postal information.
Our
postcode data is available in the form of a variety of products or
as product combinations (listed below). You can purchase
the data for
the whole U.K. or just your area of interest.
The PAF can provide tabular
data for about 27 million unique postal addresses and over 1.5
million unique postcodes in the UK.
Possible
uses:
• Address verification
• Business mailings
Output:
Output
available by either address or postcode
• By address with one record for each individual address
• By
postcode with one record per complete individualised postcode
Attributes:
• Organisation
(i.e. company name)
• Name of premise and / or house number
• Street
• Locality (e.g. Dalkeith)
• Post town (e.g. Edinburgh, which is the Post town where the sorting
office is for Dalkeith)
• County
• Postcode
• Address Type - Residential, Business, or Large User
For output by postcode, one further attribute is available which gives
the number of delivery points at the postcode (i.e. how many premises
share that postcode)
Deliverable formats (Click to download some sample data):
PostZon
is the Royal Mail brand name for the Postcode with a Grid Reference.
There is data for over 1.5 million unique postcodes
in the UK. The
data comes in tabular format with attributes such as
its National Grid reference, or it is available as GIS data
points which includes the
tabular information as attributes. The National Grid
reference is at an accuracy to the nearest 100 metres.
Possible
uses:
• Geocoding
• GIS analyses
• Addition of new addresses
• Existing address verification
Output:
As
tabular data or GIS points. There is one record (i.e. point reference)
per postcode.
Attributes:
• Postcode
• Grid Easting (rounded to 100 metres)
• Grid Northing (rounded to 100 metres)
• Electoral ward name & reference number.
• NHS strategic health authority name and code
Deliverable formats:
For output as PostZon File (Click to download some sample data):
Geographic
polygons showing the hierarchy of postcode regions. The data can
be purchased for the entire U.K.
or just your area of interest. Contact us for
pricing information regarding requests by region.
This
data is available by level of detail:
• Areas – An
area is the most generalised postcode region dataset. Areas provide
the smallest scale of postcode data
available. Areas
are defined by the letter(s) at the beginning
of the Postcode for example EH
• Sectors – Sectors
are the most specific postcode region dataset available. They are
further defined by
the number in the second part
of the postcode. One postcode sector would cover
a region such as EH22 3
• Ideal
for thematic mapping in GIS packages
• Sales & Marketing - show sales patterns or develop sales
regions such as displaying sales patterns
• Assigning census data information for analyses
• They are also useful in studies such as in epidemiology
or demographics
• Sectors are useful for planning sales territories
Output:
Each
data level is delivered as attributed graphic regions
Attributes:
Postcode
attributes are given dependant upon specific region type (i.e.
area, district, or sector).
• Area data
Holds the postcode area.
• District
data
Holds
the postcode district and its component parts as separate fields
(i.e. the postcode area & the postcode
number in the first half of the postcode).
• Sector
data
Has
the postcode sector, postcode district, and the postcode district’s
component parts in separate fields.
Deliverable formats (Click to download some sample data):
Counts
of business and residential postcode addresses within each Area,
District, or Sector. The counts are held in the
form of attributes attached
to the polygons. This information can be
put to good use for pursuing clients for business purposes. The counts are provided for Q1 2004 and Q1 2005 so you can see increases / decreases over the year.
XYZ offers
paper wall maps or raster GIF file images of the UK postal geography.
These
maps feature the whole of the UK with an inset for London.
Both types shows all UK postcode areas. Further geographic perspective
is also provided by inclusion of major towns & cities plus motorways & trunk
roads.
Paper
Map:
The
paper map is A1 in size and supplied on quality paper stock. It can
also be encapsulated to make it even harder wearing and giving
it a
write on wipe off surface.
Or design your own map using our Maps on Demand service. Choose your scale, background, content and much more. You can have any area of the UK at any size from A4 to A0 in either paper or encapsulated form.
