UK Postcode Area & District Boundary Finder

• DataFinder finds boundaries of your specified postcode area and "spits out" a collection of postcodes which belong to the postcode area, in a single file. Each postcode is attached with a property title which describes the area (note: this may be Post Town, District or LAD name).
• DataMerger reads your provided geojson files and puts them together under one FeatureCollection in a single file.

The generated result files are in GEOJson format.

Instructions

DataFinder

• Run DataFinder.
• You will be asked to provide a name for the result directory - enter one.
• Then, you will be requested to enter a postcode area and a name you would like to give to the result file e.g. PL,Plymouth (no space on either side of the comma symbol).
• A file will be generated for the previous step and you will be prompted to enter another postcode area, continuously.
• You may stop DataFinder when you have collected the data you need.
• The result files will be located under in src/main/resources/results.

For example, if you specified directory name to be London, then the results will be inside London directory created in the path mentioned previously.

The directory will also contain districts directory. Inside you will find a directory for each postcode area name that you have entered with geojson files for each postcode district that belongs to that area.

DataMerger

• Place GeometryCollection files inside merge_data directory located in src/main/java.
• Run DataMerger.
• You will be asked to provide a name for the result file - enter one.
• The result file will be created in src/main/resources/merged_results directory.

Data & Licenses

The application contains raw data about postcodes in the UK (England, Scotland & Northern Ireland).

Postcode area & district boundary data has been sourced from GeoLytix (https://geolytix.co.uk/?geodata) - Postal. The data is released under GeoLytix OpenData and OGL license.

You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information:

• Postal Boundaries © GeoLytix copyright and database right 2012
• Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012
• Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2012
• Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2012