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Enhanced 2011 Census data; getting more out of your address database

December 7, 2012

The first really useful 2011 Census data at Output Area was released on 23rd November 2012, and included population, age, and sex breakdowns.  Although not the first release of the 2011 Census data, it is the first at such a …

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The Benefits of Using Postcode Boundaries

November 30, 2012

Have you ever thought about your postcode?  In addition to being key for delivering post, when linked to demographics it also allows you to go a step further by asking questions such as; Within a defined area: “How many people …

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Open data: what’s in an address?

November 16, 2012

What’s in an address? Well quite a lot actually.  Where you live is really important to a lot of people, businesses and even government.  For example, addresses give exact locations to deliver mail, or to count the number of households …

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Keeping Your Database Up to Date

November 9, 2012

It’s very important that you check the contacts on your database and update them. One of the things that does change over time is postcodes and we have a page of free tools and data on our site that lets …

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Hop across the water with TimeTravel

October 24, 2012

Previously with TimeTravel it was only possible to create drive times based on driving on land. Of course, you may think this is blindingly obvious as you cannot drive over water; however when you think of our collection of islands …

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2011 Census data first release: Mapping the change(s)…

July 31, 2012

So, last week we received the 2011 Census first release figures which showed that the population of England and Wales has reached 56.1 million – up by 3.7 million in a decade – the largest growth shown by any census …

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Is OpenData really free?

May 16, 2012

The UK has been at the forefront of having and using really high quality digital geographical data for a number of years. This has ranged from our Census every 10 years to address-based products like Royal Mail PAF data. The …

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Set our data free: An open letter to the Secretary of State for Health

April 11, 2012

Dear Secretary of  State, Based on work with the North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO), Beacon Dodsworth has produced maps of the likelihood of disease associated with certain lifestyles. (See our blog post The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of disease in Bradford: An inverse correlation between coronary disease and skin cancer). This …

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