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DescriptionBritish postcode areas map.svg
English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode areas of the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies with insets for Manchester and London conurbations.
Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 170%, WGS84 datum.
Geographic limits:
Main 1:5,000,000 map:
West: 11.00W
East: 2.20E
North: 61.00N
South: 49.00N
Manchester 1:3,000,000 inset map:
West: 3.30W
East: 1.10W
North: 54.10N
South: 53.10N
London 1:1,000,000 inset map:
West: 0.50W
East: 0.30E
North: 51.70N
South: 51.30N
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Derived from Ordnance Survey OS OpenData.
Postcode area boundaries within Great Britain derived from Voronoi polygons of OS Code-Point Open unit postcode median coordinates (with coastline clipping and minor adjustments to avoid spurious detached polygons).
National borders and coastline data derived:
from OS Strategi for inset maps
from File:United Kingdom location map.svg (version 2011-01-11T22:14:29) for main map coastline and Ireland border.
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Richardguk
Other versions
2 digit postcode uk.png
Map of the administrative geography of the British Isles with postcode areas.jpg
Map of the British postcode areas.png
Postcodes-Overview.png
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05:45, 28 January 2012
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Richardguk
Clipped postcode area strokes to GB mainland (requires non-rectangular clip-path renderer); added dashed strokes to clarify nearby offshore postcode area boundaries (France–GY, France–JE, GY–JE, HS–IV, IV–PH, KA–PA, PA–PH); font-family="'Lib
22:00, 1 December 2011
886 × 1,369 (844 KB)
Richardguk
Main map limits and coastline taken from File:United Kingdom location map.svg. Label sizes refined. Colour-scheme amended for greater similarity with UK location maps. SVG out
16:19, 25 November 2011
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Richardguk
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