Unique Code-Point Open locations polygons
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2017-02-21Type
datasetData Creator
Crone, JamesPublisher
University of EdinburghMetadata
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Crone, James. (2017). Unique Code-Point Open locations polygons, [Dataset]. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1762.Description
1,572,685 polygon records with EASTING,NORTHING and PAREA (postcode area) fields. Individual polygons could be aggregated using PAREA field and entire coverage clipped to a coastline dataset to give a GB Postcode Area dataset. Dataset created by reducing all records in Code-Point Open to a unique point set based on Easting & Northing, allocating the most frequently occurring postcode area at each unique location by sub-stringing unit postcode labels and then creating a thiessen polygon coverage from the pointset in arcinfo workstation. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2010-09-13 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.The following licence files are associated with this item: