Many, many websites provide a facility to perform radial searches around a specified postcode. This is ideal when looking for cars, jobs, properties or many other products... But what if you don't know the full postcode - the visitor to your website may only know the postal sector, or village or even town around which they want to search. For this particular application BPH has developed a "hybrid" file called GridLoc which combines Locality data at Postal Sector level with both OSGR Easting/Northing coordinates and Latitude/Longitude values. The file combines both PAF® Locality data (Loc Type = LOC) and localities from the Alias file (ALC) and calculates centroid coordinates for each locality, post town (PTN) and postal sector. Below is a very small representation of the dataset. If you would like to trial the data please download the sample to the right.

The GridLoc file is only available as a complete UK dataset and costs £650 for a single edition. Because GridLoc merges two data sources the Royal Mail licence is a combination of both Part PAF® and Postzon elements.

If you would like more information on GridLoc please call Dave Sweet on 01276 689614.

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