The ONS Open Geography portal from the
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; cy, Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
Overview
The ONS is responsible for th ...
(ONS) provides free and open access to the definitive source of
geographic information
Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position).
It is also cal ...
products, web applications, story maps, services and APIs. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, unless otherwise stated.
Products available include:
User guides and charts to UK statistical geographies and products available via the portal.
Maps and boundary data for UK statistical geographies: census, electoral, administrative, health, police, national parks etc.
Lookups to relationships between levels in hierarchical statistical geographies.
Register of Geographic Codes (RGC) - the definitive list of UK statistical geographies.
ONS UPRN Directory (ONSUD) for Great Britain - relates the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) for each GB address from AddressBase® Epoch 65 to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other statistical geographies.
ONS Postcode Directory
The ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre-2002 health areas, 1 ...
(ONSPD) for the United Kingdom - relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies.
Index of Place Names
The Index of Place Names (IPN) in Great Britain is published by the Office for National Statistics.
The IPN is a list of "places" in Great Britain. For each "place" included, the IPN lists which areas that place is located within, for each of a s ...
- first produced after the 1831 Census, lists the names of localities and geography areas throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
[Office for National Statistic]
Index of Place Names in Great Britain (July 2016)
Retrieved 21 June 2019
References
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External links
Open Geography Portal
Demographics of England
Demographics of Wales
National statistical services
Statistical organisations in the United Kingdom
Web mapping