Where can I find a list of all UK _full_ postcodes including street name and their precise coordinates?

Question

Where can I find a list of all UK full postcodes including street name and their precise coordinates? They should be not like AB1, AB23 etc but AB1 2AA, AB23 5ZZ etc.

Preferably for free :)

Thanks

Answer 1

You will have to buy it:

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/jump2?mediaId=400085&catId=400084

Answer 2

Unfortunately this is something you have to pay for, and it's not particularly cheap! There's an online petition to get this information freed if you are interested.

Commercial wise, just do a Google for uk postcode database and take your pick, they are all much of a muchness.

Answer 3

The Royal Mail is the supplier of the 'official' Post Code database for the UK - they own the postcodes and postcode to GIS mapping. It's copyrighted and has some significant license fees.

Postzon is the product they sell to link the postcodes to the GIS co-ordinates.

There have been third party providers from outside europe who released details in the past for a fraction of the costs, but it's a very grey area, and you are then in consult a lawyer territory.

Answer 4

Google API free does not have a UK license for postcodes hence the accuracy of using Google maps for store Locators is very poor. They also cannot Gecode Ireland, Developers and agency's have awful get rounds which often show US towns instead of UK as only based on the first 4 digits of a postcode.

In all, no professional would use Google as there are specialists such as Bing and ViaMichelin would have the full kit available for business's