Location Based Services and Consultancy

Services & GIS Consultancy

In the building up of this site and other clients websites, I have built up considerable web GIS and Location system experience. If any of the following services interest you then please get in contact, if its for a hobby or charity site then I will probably be able to offer my services for free. If you don't find a demo of these features on this site then please ask.

Most of the generic location stuff has been moved to a new site, www.nearby.org.uk and in particular look at the Geocoder Webservice (free!)

Conversions - for your own applications	(amonst others seen in the Coordinate Convertor)
Postcode to Grid Ref converter	Grid Ref to Approx Postcode
WGS84 to OSGB36	OSGB36 to WGS84
Grid Ref to Lat/Long	Lat/Long to Grid Reference
Grid Ref to OS Landranger or Explorer Map	LR and Explorer Map Coverages
Northing and Easting to Grid Reference	Grid Ref to northings and eastings
Location to county	Approx borders for counties

Geographical Searching

Store Locator (eg search by Postcode or Placename)
Feature Finder
Find webpages about a location

Calculations

Distance calculation between two postcodes
Distance between Lat/Longs or Grid refences
Analysis of Geospatial Datasets
- Areas of High/Low Density
- Geographical Profiling
'Nearest To' - show the nearest campsite to your attraction for example
Routing between set points

Visualizations

Mapping - plotting points/areas/lines etc., also plotting of metadata (Example)
Height Plots
Basemapping Sources

Datasets

UK Gazetteers (Placename to location) (Example)
Postcode Database - (see also postcode statistics)
Phone Number Area Code Locations
Sources of all sorts of datasets from Campsites to Attractions to OS Benchmarks!

Misc