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@missinglink Also worth looking at OS CodePoint Open as well; ONS PD is updated more frequently but CodePoint Open is more authoritative IMHO. Sadly, as long as 👑 ✉️ maintain their tight hold on the UK PAF (and I don't see that changing anytime soon) and with Open Addresses UK and Free The Postcode both now defunct, this is as good as it's going to get without resorting to proprietary licensed data, which will cost and not be usable in an open form anyway by definition. |
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This PR adds support for the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for the United Kingdom
https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons-postcode-directory-may-2020
I was interested to see what the coverage was like and found out:
To use this importer, download the
ONSPD_MAY_2020_UK.csvfile from the link above and import it as such:I had a quick play around with buffering the points to polygons and settled on a
0.001radius, but this is obviously not an exact science.cc/ @vicchi