Unlock Places
A short description of the service
Unlock Places is a place search web service. Its API helps developers to find locations for place names. You can use it to convert postal codes into coordinates, to look up electoral boundaries, and to find shapes that overlap or intersect one another.
Unlock Places can provide geographic information describing places - or gazetteer data - as points (latitude-longitude coordinates) or larger bounding boxes and more detailed shapes
The service references several different data sources to search a global list of places with more in depth coverage of the UK from the Ordnance Survey.
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