Our interactive Postcode District web map allows you to browse the entire UK, locate Postcode Districts and see how many addresses are in each Postcode District as at mid 2015. We have included a breakdown for Large Users (PO Boxes), Business Addresses and Residential Addresses. The Zoom In / Out function allows you to go from full UK, right down to individual Postcode Districts. ![]() The Layer Control lets you tick/untick the 'About this Map' layer, the layer or the layer. Allowing you to view a Postcode Area map, a Postcode District map or just a plain. If you want to know how many are in each Postcode District click on the map. This information could tell you how many leaflets you may need for a mailshot, how many households there are in a franchise area, or whether there are lots of businesses. The map is constructed from XYZ Maps on the base map, using within Adobe Illustrator to do the HTML5 wizardry. In my role as the performance analyst for the I often need to show the locations of suppliers and buyers. In this post, I want to share some free tools that I use to convert postcode data into useful maps. My example shows. Mapping Sheets This allows me to plot postcodes onto a Google Map. When I put the data into a Google Sheet and select the relevant columns, I can create a map with pins to show the locations of the football stadiums. These are the columns selected for the sample data: Building the map from a Google Sheet From this, I can generate this map: Google Map with all the locations plotted The ability to filter the data and click on pins to open up more information is a useful feature. Filtered Google Map Mapsdata I use when I want to show concentrations of locations and have less than 1,000 postcodes. The data needs to be uploaded as an Excel spreadsheet. This is an example of the clustering feature. The marks show how many stadiums there are in the area. Controls on the left allow the geographical distances to be adjusted. Mapsdata clustering feature When I have large numbers of postcodes I find the Mapsdata heatmapping feature really useful. This shows the same data as a heatmap. Mapsdata heatmap feature Mapsdata also has a feature that allows me to show bubbles based on a particular column’s values. Here I’ve set the tool to show the size of bubble as the capacity of each of the stadiums. Mapsdata bubble feature Mapsdata also provides several useful to convert data such as postcodes to longitudes and latitudes. Over to you We’ll keep experimenting with different tools and will continue to share our experiences. If you use any free tools for mapping postcodes we’d love to hear about it in the comments section. Is a senior performance analyst in GDS. Hi, The Google Sheets Add-on looks really good, but I'm nervous about the T&Cs (below). Do you have any alternatives? Mapping Sheets wants to: -View and manage the files in your Google Drive -View and manage spreadsheets that this application has been installed in -View and manage data associated with the application -Connect to an external service - particularly the first two where the 'details' says 'Upload, download, update and delete files in your Google Drive Create, access, update and delete native Google documents in your Google Drive Manage files and documents in your Google Drive (e.g. Search, organise and modify permissions and other metadata, such as title)' 'View, modify and share with other users spreadsheets that this application has been installed in' • •. »Installs in minutes and seamlessly integrates to the site » Maps of USA, UK and other countries as well as world maps » Support for iPhone/iPad/Android. Wikileaks is hosting what it says is a copy of the entire UK postcode. In the Free Our Data campaign, sells the Postcode. A Google map. Postcode to long.
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