Blackwell’s offers a full range of solutions alongside our standard mapping products (OS Mastermap, height data etc) to enhance your data and give you more informative and efficient datasets.
For example, insurers use GIS to visualise and predict flood patterns so they can set the right premiums; retailers use GIS to site the most suitable new store location (perhaps based on population size), and emergency services use it to position their vehicles in the best locations at any given time of day, based on historic patterns of where they're most likely to be needed.
You will need geographic information system software to read and analyse these data products.
Click on a product for more information.
Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line • Ordnance Survey Code-Point • Ordnance Survey Code-Point with Polygons • AddressBase • AddressBase Plus • AddressBase Premium • Integrated Transport Network Layer (ITN)
Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line
OS Boundary-Line is a specialist dataset of voting and administrative boundaries represented as vector digital data. It provides a full hierarchy of boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes/communities to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Development and land use planning • Environmental impact analysis • Vehicle routing • Asset management • Market analysis |
| Formats | DXF, DWG, MID/MIF, SHP, BDS |
| Key Points | • A detailed and definitive boundary dataset for Great Britain • Area values for every polygon • Census agency codes (where available) - link the polygons with census statistics • Derived mainly from 1:10,000 scale Boundary Record mapping • Suited to multiple applications using GIS, CAD and digital mapping systems • Structured vector format, offering maximum functionality |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
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OS CodePoint
OS Codepoint with polygons
OS Addressbase
Ordnance Survey Code-Point
Code-Point provides a precise geographical location for each postcode unit in Great Britain. There are approximately 1.7 million postcode units in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has approximately 46,000.
An economical planning or marketing tool for users not requiring individual addresses.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Market analysis • Statistical analysis • Crime pattern analysis • Sales targeting • Route planning |
| Formats | CSV file |
| Key Points | • Can be put into Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for analysis • Cannot be used without appropriate software and preferably background mapping • Use Code-Point with polygons for an indication of the area included in each postcode |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
Related Products
OS Mastermap
OS Boundary-Line
OS Codepoint with polygons
OS Addressbase
Ordnance Survey Code-Point with Polygons
OS Code-Point with polygons contains postcode boundaries for Great Britain, including the extent of each postcode unit. It captures every fully matched address in the correct boundary and within the sector boundaries prescribed by Royal Mail, and is significantly more accurate than previous products of this type.
A boundary clearly shows the national extent of each postcode unit, enabling non-addressable data to be analysed on a postcode basis, and results can be related to local authority and National Health areas.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Market analysis • Statistical analysis • Crime pattern analysis • Resource allocation • Route planning |
| Formats | DXF, DWG, MID/MIF, SHP, BDS |
| Key Points | • Combine with base mapping to give geographical bearing • Combine with statistical data for analysis purposes • Can be incorporated into Geographical Information Systems (GIS) |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
Related Products
OS Mastermap
OS Boundary-Line
OS Codepoint
OS Addressbase
Ordnance Survey AddressBase
AddressBase products are an essential source of detailed location intelligence for Housing Associations, businesses, government and the public sector. They enable you to identify opportunities, monitor trends, manage risk and deliver superior service to your customers.
AddressBase
AddressBase enables you to link additional information about a property to a single address and locate it on a map. Containing over 28 million addresses from Royal Mail’s postal address file (PAF), it classifies them as either residential or commercial. This makes it a powerful tool for direct marketing.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Planning and reviewing direct mail campaigns • Identifying postal addresses • Identifying residential or commercial properties • Product contains Royal Mail postal addresses, where matched to a UPRN and coordinates for each address |
| Formats | CSV, GML |
| Scale / resolution | 1:1250 to 1:10,000 |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
AddressBase Plus
AddressBase Plus adds 6 million more addresses to those contained in AddressBase, plus a greater level of detail. It makes your marketing more accurate, offer greater insights into fraud risk, permits more precise validation checks and improves regulatory compliance. You can also explore your data more effectively because it enables you to cross-reference between a wide range of information sources.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Data analysis • Also lists non postal addresses that receive utility services such as community halls and churches. • Identify individual households who share an address (for example, a house divided into flats). |
| Formats | CSV, GML |
| Scale / resolution | 1:1250 to 1:10,000 |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
AddressBase Premium
AddressBase Premium contains approximately 40 million records and is the most comprehensive and accurate address dataset of all.
It enables you to plan future infrastructure services more effectively, such as the capacity of new sewers or telecommunications links, by showing you where new homes or offices are going to be built.
It also includes historical addresses, enabling you can spot fraud immediately if somebody tries, for instance, to insure or to claim to reside at a property that no longer exists.
Benefit from the most comprehensive view of the world of addresses throughout the property lifecycle – from planning permission, through construction, occupation, change of use to demolition and beyond.
And because it also includes alternative addresses (for example, the owners of 6 Acacia Avenue call their house Hillcrest), you can ensure customer satisfaction by using the alternative property name in correspondence whilst avoiding duplicate records within your own data.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Data Analysis • Planning infrastructure • Insurance fraud |
| Formats | CSV, GML |
| Scale / resolution | 1:1250 to 1:10,000 |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
Integrated Transport Network Layer (ITN)
Offering the most current and complete network view of Great Britain’s roads available today, ITN Layer shows the geometry of 550,000 km of motorways, roads and urban paths.
• Base your route calculations for planning, analysis or in-vehicle instruction on the most detailed, current and high quality information available.
• Avoid complaints from customers about obsolete data – OS survey new roads and changes within six months of completion on the ground.
• ITN Layer catalogues over a million banned turns, one-way streets, time or vehicle-based restrictions – ideal for detailed, intelligent routing algorithms.
• Your routing can cater for walkers and cyclists as well as cars and trucks, thanks to the ITN dataset of pedestrian routes across towns in Britain.
• Motorways, A roads, B roads, minor roads, local streets and private roads – all are captured to an exacting specification.
| Supplier | Ordnance Survey |
| What’s it for? | • Route planning • Detailed road and path asset management |
| Formats | GML 2.1.2 (supplied in compressed .gz format) |
| Availability | Available offline – please contact us for a quote |
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