How to geocode United Kingom Addresses?

[Gavin McMenemy]

Hi,

I'm new to mapinfo and I am trying to get my head around how you geocode and then map British (UK) addresses?

I've got a list of postcodes which I've cross referenced with a postal code db to give me the eastings and northings but now I seem unable to place pins on a map. With the copy of Mapinfo I have there only appear to be US maps with the eception of the WORLD.tab file which is present in the trial data folder. Do I need to purchase something additional to the software (which we're only evaluating at present).

Any advice is gratefully appreciate.

Gavin

[Thomas Bacon]

Gavin,

 

If you have eastings and northings you can use: Table > Create Points to generate points for your data. Just specify the table, the x and y coordinate columns and the projection (British National Grid in this instance, look under British Coordinate Systems).

 

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[Tim Rideout]

Hi Gavin,

 

This is very straightforward if you have your postcodes in the format of something like our POSTLocator product. This is all the near 2 million postcodes in MapInfo format as points. So with that you just run the Table>Geocode command where the table you are geocoding is your data and which should have a column containing the postcode. The table you are geocoding against is in this POSTLocator and using the Postcode column. You run this in Automatic mode the first time, which means it will get all the perfect matches. You then run it again in Manual mode which will throw up postcodes that did not match. You can then ignore them, correct them (e.g. by inserting a space, changing S to 5 or vice versa, etc). It is often quite obvious what the error is in the postcode. You are then left with some that just don’t match, maybe because they are just wrong or out of date.

 

There is no need for Boundary data set to refine the matching, so just ignore those boxes in the menu.

 

POSTLocator is a one-off £195 for a perpetual licence. You can if you wish create your own geocode table using OS Open data, but I would reckon that will take you more than £195 worth of your time! J

 

Happy to help with any other questions or do a WebEx session with you – we are MapInfo resellers of 15 years standing.

 

Regards

 

Tim

 

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From: mapi...@googlegroups.com [mailto:mapi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gavin McMenemy
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Subject: [MI-L] How to geocode United Kingom Addresses?

 

Hi,

[Greg]

If you need some base mapping, the have a look at the Ordnance Survey OpenData as they have a range of scale dependant raster and vector datasets available to download for free. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

MapInfo used to come with some UK datasets on the installation CD, but no where as detailed as those available from the OS.