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The 2013 update of Collins Bartholomew Great Britain Locator Gazetteer data includes some 60,000 places in Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands extracted from the Collins Bartholomew 1:200,000 scale map database. It includes some 35,000 settlements, 5,000 land and water features, 4,000 places of interest, 3,200 railway stations, 3,000 mountains/hills, 2,500 golf courses, 1,600 rivers, 1,250 road junctions and 1,000 lakes and lochs.
Each place is given a National Grid reference for a point location which refers to the designated centre of a settlement, the approximate centre of an areal feature (such as a lake), an arbitrary point along a line feature (such as a river), or the location of the name of a land or water feature. In addition the longitude and latitude in decimal degrees is supplied.
Places are classified by county or unitary authority area (except in metropolitan areas) and by the postcode sector of the designated point location. Locations of places of interest in particular may be subject to cartographic displacements, which can affect the accuracy of this classification. Local authority data is current as at October 2012; postcode data is essentially current as at October 2012.
Data can be supplied in different ways as required by a customer.
Typical data distributions are made
on CD-R (for PC or Mac use)
on DVD-R (for PC or Mac use)
by download from one of Graticule's cloud virtual private servers.
The Gazetteer file is available in a selected file formats, typically ASCII text Comma Separated Value ( CSV), Access (DBF) or ESRI Shape files, but others are available on request.
Graticule will be pleased to supply an Adobe Acrobat file which gives a description of the data in the Gazetteer.
Graticule offers annual single, multiple, site, corporate and Internet licences for use of the Gazetteer data.
Projection: Nation Grid of Great Britain
Scale: 1/200,000
Filetype: ASCII Text CSV file
Revision Date: 2012
List of places A consistent set of information places in Great Britain.
Database Format Supplied as an ASCII text comma separated value file which can be read into a database or spreadsheet.
Valuable Source of Data Provides a valuable set of information about towns and other places and features in Great Britain
Location Easting and Northing and Longitude and Latitude co-ordinates of each place are included for searching and mapping.
Valuable set of data
Consistent, up-to-date and easy to access source of information about towns and other places in Great Britain.