ONS Postcode Directory Tabular and Spatial Extract Tool
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Dataset information
Catalog
Country of origin
Updated
2017.11.20 10:18
Created
2017.08.07
Available languages
English
Keywords
Web App, places, ONSPD Extractor, Postcode, NSPL
Datasource
Quality scoring
80
Dataset description
<p align='center' style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;'><font face='Arial'><b><font size='5'>ONS Postcode Directory Tabular and Spatial Extract Tool</font><br /></b></font><font size='3'><br /></font></p><p align='center' style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;'><font face='Arial' size='2'>This tool will enable you to extract a maximum of 33,000 records to a CSV, Feature Collection (JSON) or GEOJSON file. This will allow you to export all the postcodes for the following geographies:</font></p><p align='center' style='margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-center;'></p><ul><li><font face='Arial' size='2'>Local Authority</font></li></ul><div style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;'><font face='Arial' size='2'>Tweet us @ONSGeography or email us ons.geography@ons.gov.uk to request another geography to be added to the tool.</font></div><div style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;'><font face='Arial' size='2'><br /></font></div><div style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; line-height: normal;'><font face='Arial' size='3'><b>INSTRUCTIONS</b></font></div><div style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;'><font face='Arial' size='2'><br /></font></div><div style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Avenir Light"; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;'><div style='font-family: Verdana;'><b>1. STEP 1: FILTER </b><br /></div><div style='font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;'><div style='text-align: left;'><div style='text-align: center;'><div style='text-align: left;'><ul><li>Select the local authority code from the dropdown list. <br /></li><li>Click Apply button. The map will zoom to the postcodes in that local authority.</li><li>You may have to zoom out to see all the postcodes<br /></li></ul></div><div style='text-align: left;'><br /></div><div style='text-align: left;'><b>2. STEP 2: SELECT AND EXPORT</b></div><div style='text-align: left;'><ul><li>Click Select button.<br /></li><li>Draw around all the postcodes.<br /></li><li>Click on the ellipsis [...] next to the number of postcodes, to export to CSV, JSON, or GEOJSON<br /></li><li>Click Clear button. Clear the selection before creating a new extract</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div>
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