Originally posted by TimberWolf
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And?Coffee's for closers -
Ordnance Survey do have some complex postcodey thing that doesn't have geo-ref's - been years since I used it in anger - so can't remember exactly what they're used for...
If you can be bothered...have a look for the codepoint user guide - skimmed it...but can't find the info...Last edited by Muttley08; 6 October 2009, 16:40.Comment
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I'd guess that BD985YA is a PO Box. Bradford and Bingley for example.Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostBugs in the database by the looks of it. The one off Scilly corresponds to a dozen postcodes near BD985YA in the file with a latitude and longitude of 49.766731, -7.55729. I haven't checked the other one, as I haven't created a reverse search yet and I'm laboriously binary chopping the data manually to find them. There also appear to be something like 200,000 postcodes on the file with no (i.e. 0,0) latitude and longitude at all. Still, it is free
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Nah... a couple, some or lots of red vans and lorrys near them allOriginally posted by Clippy View Post
Proof that they're post boxesCoffee's for closersComment
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This was what I was thinking about - can happen in blocks of flats or on big industrial sites...
# Some buildings can contain delivery addresses with different postcodes. High-rise residential buildings are a good example of these. As far as the Code-Point dataset is concerned these are called Vertical Streets, and their boundaries are recorded as regular squares. These are clearly visible when the postcode boundaries are mapped.
This is referring to code-point and what they look like as a polygon layer - but might be what you're finding...either that or PO Boxes...or both...Comment
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