Output areas to postcodes using the restful webservice

[Andy Allen]

Hi,

I have been attempting to use the postcode restful services to get back the output area for a particular postcode however I can only seem to get back OA in the format E00nnnnnn and not in the format that I have in my datasets. i.e

OA_CODE	OA_NAME
43ULGJ0001	43ULGJ0001
43ULGJ0002	43ULGJ0002
43ULGJ0003	43ULGJ0003
43ULGJ0004	43ULGJ0004
43ULGJ0005	43ULGJ0005
43ULGJ0006	43ULGJ0006
43ULGJ0007	43ULGJ0007
43ULGJ0008	43ULGJ0008
43ULGJ0009	43ULGJ0009
43ULGJ0010	43ULGJ0010
43ULGJ0011	43ULGJ0011
43ULGJ0012	43ULGJ0012

It looks to me as though the column OACODE should have in it data in the format E00nnnnnn and not a repeat of the name field.

Can anyone shed some light on either what I am doing wrong or if there is a way to get at the data I need?

The restful Services that I have been attempting to use.

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/NDE2/Disco/SearchSByAByPostcode?LevelTypeId=141&Postcode=SW1V1LQ
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/NDE2/Disco/SearchAreaByPostcodeHierarchy?HierarchyId=2&Postcode=SW1V1LQ
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/NDE2/Disco/FindAreas?Postcode=postcode&LevelTypeId=141&HierarchyId=2
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/NDE2/Disco/FindAreas?Postcode=SW1V1LQ

http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/NDE2/Disco/SearchAreaByPostcodeHierarchy?HierarchyId=2&Postcode=SW1V1LQ

Cheers
Andy