+44 (0)113 234 4000Summary of Products
Plot your contacts on maps
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The PostcodeAnalyst 3 application reads data from your contact address file or database and plots the locations of your contacts by postcode on high quality colour maps. "Contacts" in this case can be businesses, organisations or individuals. For example, they might be business or individual customers, suppliers, employees, students or patients. Or they might be outlets such as wholesale depots, retail outlets, shopping centres, medical or dental practices, hospitals, schools, colleges or universities. If you have a contact address with a postcode in the UK, the PostcodeAnalyst 3 application will let you plot the locations of your contacts.
Benefits
- Plan promotional campaigns to target selected types of customers.
- Reveal the geographical dimensions of your business activities locally, regionally, or nationally.
- Map changes in your business activities from quarter to quarter or year to year.
- Create territories and analyse results by each terroritory or by selected territorities.
- Lets you link customers to service engineers, clients to consultants by proximity of address in the UK.
- Brings significant efficiencies and economic benefits for your business by reducing travel costs.
- Easy to learn and use Microsoft Windows application with interactive, context-sensitive Help file.
- Let you save and compare maps of your business contacts by selected time periods.
- Import
- Read and import data from Microsoft Excel, Access or ASCII text Comma Separated Value (CSV) files.
- Create
- Display and interpret geographical maps of your business activities using different symbols to represent different types of data which you have collected.
- Explore
- Interpret distributions and changes to maps for different periods.
- View
- Click on a symbol on a map and view the data for that contact.
- Reveal
- Reveal the geographical dimensions, and changes in these dimensions, by comparing maps for different periods locally, regionally or nationally.
- Analyse
- Analyse and interpret geographical distributions on maps using statistical or thematic maps.
- Devise
- Create sales territories and analyse results by individual territory and selected groups of territories.
- Export
- Export data to an ASCII text CSV file or print colour maps with title, legend, scale, date.
- Telemappix
- Telemappix wizard gives live database and customer relationship management interactions and allows users to abstract and map their data quickly.
- RouteCalculator
- Adds route-finding and distance calculators, using road map data to provide accurate results.
- RangeCalculator
- Extends RouteCalculator with isochrone maps about one or more chosen locations
- GeoDemoGraphix
- Enhances existing statistical mapping options, and includes the capacity to generate pie-charts.
- Northern Ireland
- Include coverage of Northern Ireland for mapping database contacts in the UK
- Postcode Units
- Adds Unit postcode data of the UK (e.g. LS2 9AE), of which there are about 1.7 million postcodes in the UK, allowing more accurate placement of icons.
Lets you derive geographical information from your contact address database.
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The PostcodeCalculator 2 application calculates straight-line distances between postcodes in the UK. It lets business managers calculate distances from outlets to customers home addresses, employees home addresses and suppliers and managers in other organisations such as schools, medical practices and social centres perform similar calculations. The PostcodeCalculator 2 application lets you capture contact addresses within a chosen radius of a selected starting postcode or location and find the nearest matches between two locations (e.g. find the nearest shop to the homes of customers). PostcodeCalculator 2 application includes up-to-date embedded postcode data of the UK.
Benefits
- Calculate straight-line distances from outlets to customers
- Find customers within a given radius of an outlet
- Calculate nearest outlet to a customers address
- Output data to a file or cut and paste to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
- Fast computation of thousands of postcode records
- Easy to use, text application which gives results quickly
- Includes up-to-date Postcode Data of the UK
Calculate distances and drive-times by road between postcodes
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The PostcodeCalculator 2 Pro application for computers running Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7 environments extends functions and features of the PostcodeCalculator 2 application by including functions for calculating distances by road and off-peak drive-times between any two given postcodes in the UK. The PostcodeCalculator 2 Pro application is being used by haulage companies, taxi firms, marketing companies and other organisations to calculate drive-times and fuel costs, helping them to plan routes efficiently and save time and money with effect.
It is a popular, effective and efficient application with diverse functions for analysis of postcode data in the UK.
Benefits
- Calculates distances and off-peak drive-times by road preparing quotes for freight haulage, coach services, taxi hire, home deliveries and other logistics solutions.
- Calculates schedule for itineraries for journeys by road and facilitates scheduling appointments and travel time by road.
For the month of July 2010, Graticule offer a special discount of 25% off the retail price on new purchases of single-user, annual licences for PostcodeCalculator 2 Pro. The offer ends 31st July 2010, purchases must be made during the month of July 2010.
Find nearest place given Longitude and Latitude coordinates
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The PlaceNameFinda application finds the name of a location given its Latitude and Longitude coordinates. Although this sounds like a relatively simple tast, it involves considerable complexity not least because several places have the same or similar names and a given point location specified by Longitude and Latitude coordinates rarely coincides with a names place on a map. The application is being used in database management systems and as a stand along application by taxi, haulage and coach businesses in the UK.
Benefits
- Lets you improve the quality of service to customers.
- Lets you improve the efficiency of your business by unambiguous specification of locations
- Lets businesses reduce unneccessary travel and costs of labour,assets and fuel.
- Lets you transform Longitude and Latitude coordinates into place names in the UK
- Lets you process thousands of Longitude and Latitude coordinates quickly, efficiently and largely unambiguously.
- Lets you track where an asset has been to the nearest street address in the UK.
- Lets you check where your employees have been in your company vehicles 24/7.
- Lets you process thousands of records per minute depending to a large extent on the hardware platform being used.
The PlaceNameFinda application lets you check where your business assets are to the nearest street address in the UK on a continual or sample basis. For an individual asset such as a car, coach or truck, the PlaceNameFinda application returns the name of the nearest town, county, region, country and continent.
Lets you plan and schedule visits to addresses in the UK
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The DayPlanna application aims to assist in scheduling trips or journeys away from the office which involve visiting a list of known addresses such as delivery addresses or customer office locations.
Benefits
- Trips by car can be modified to suit preferences.
- Reduce costs of travel by car by selecting shortest route between two given postcodes.
- Increase efficiency of visiting clients by planning and using least cost routes.
Calculates drive-times by road between postcodes
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DriveTimeFinda software computes average drive-times by road between two postcodes in the United Kingdom. It exploits multi-core processors to provide fast estimates of off-peak, drive-times by road. DrivetimeFinda uses the average driving speed for each segment of the road network, as well as road distances to compute the estimated drive-times. It provides functions which can be used for finding drive-times to the nearest hotel, garage, sports ground or other features.
Benefits
- Calculate delivery time
- Estimate fuel costs
- Increase customer service capabilities
- Increase asset management efficiency
The DriveTimeFinda application can run on desktop computers or self-hosted servers or can be accessed on-line as Graticule's pay-per-hit web-service. The results of computing drive-times by road between every postcode sector centroid in the UK are available in Graticule's Drive-Time Data Matrix which can be used as a look-up table in office systems.
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DriveTimeFinda Computer Application
- Import data from an Excel spreadsheet or ASCII text commma separated value (CSV) file.
- Install and run DriveTimeFinda software for Windows or Linux on desktop or server computers.
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DriveTimeFinda Software for a Self-Hosted Server
- Links to server use a SOAP interface.
- Integrate with existing office systems.
- Graticule provides software for integration.
- Graticule supply installation, software and data.
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Graticule's Pay-per-Hit Web-Service
- Graticule provides Internet access to its DriveTimeFinda server.
- Graticule supplies a licence key for access and accounting.
- Graticule can supply software for links from your website or office systems.
- View the demonstration site
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Graticule Drive-Time Data Matrix UK
- Provides off-peak drive-times by road postcodes in UK.
- Pre-processed Drive-Time matrix for use as a Look-Up Table.
- Fast look-up of Drives-Times between postcode area, district or sector centroids in UK.
- Data available as an ASCII Text Comma Separated Value (CSV) file or binary file.
"Find my Nearest" by distance and driving time
- Designed for call centres, customer service, hotels, car rental, and retail outlets. Simply enter a customer's postcode and obtain the result;
- Find shortest distance by road and drive-times based on up-to-date maps with incorporated driving speeds;
- Web-service can be integrated with business management systems;
- NearestFinda application can be linked to office management systems. Alternatively, Graticule can provide client applications.
Create drive-time maps about one or more locations
- Requires digital street map data as input;
- Creates drive-time or isochrone maps about one or more chosen locations;
- Drive-time maps reveal accessibility to outlets, shopping centres or sites;
- Drive-time maps show best locations for new stores or outlets;
- Compare accessibility of different sites or locations for new outlets;
- Interpret isochronal maps for walking, cycling or driving;
- Reveal faster or shortest routes by road around about chosen locations.
Calculate distance by road between two given locations
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Fast, efficient software for calculating distances by road between two or more given locations. RoadDistanceFinda software is available for Windows or Linux, self-hosted server or pay-per-click web application. The RoadDistanceFinda application is used by Graticule to compute a matrix of road distances between all postcode sector, postcode district and postcode area centoirds in the UK for use as a look-up table. The matrix data is revised every six months.
Benefits
- Computes distances by road between any two given points from digital vector road map data.
- Uses large-, medium- or small-scale vector road maps to give accuracy which you require for distances.
- Estimates off-peak drive-times, compute distances by road, computes mileage costs and delivery charges.
- Forms the basis for providing quotes for freight haulage, coach hire and home delivery in the UK.
- High performance application that is flexible, reliable and robust.
- Includes multi-threading to exploit multi-core processors for fast processing for websites.
- Used by major courier and other businesses for logistics planning and charging.
- Runs on laptop, desktop or servers running Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or 7 environments or Linux
- Import data as ASCII text comma separated value files
- Stand-alone applications or can be integrated with office business systems, web-sites and other applications.
- Self-Hosted Server Service
- Communicates to server using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
- Integrates with your existing office business systems.
- Pay-per-Hit Web-Service
- Let you access Graticule's server from your website or office business systems.
- Supplied with custom user interface for input of start and end postcodes.
- Returns following string: start postcode, end postcode, distance (miles), distance (kilometres), estimated drive-time (hours)
- Graticule maintains server and customer service
- Can be linked to your existing office business systems or web-sites
- Graticule provides the SOAP and website software to facilitate installation and links Please visit our RouteFinda web-service at www.routefinda.com
- Road Distance Matrix [UK]
- Distances by road and off-peak, drive-times between points
- Pre-processed road distance matrix for use as a look-up table of 9,600 x 9,600 postcode sector centroids in UK.
- Fast look-up of distance between postcode area, district or sector points
- Matrix available as Comma Separated Value (CSV) or binary with a tool-kit
Improves the efficiency of your business by reducing the number of key strokes on entering an address
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The Point2Street Address Applicatio ensures captured addresses and related data are correct and kept up-to-date. It improves the efficiency of your business by letting you automate data entry, search quickly for any combination of fields in the PAF data and clean your address files.
Benefits
- Reduce manual data entry to one quarter of key strokes
- Bar code an address and save on postage prices
- Ensure important address information is kept up-to-date
- Promt mail delivery
The Point2StreetAddress application lets you exploit the PAF data of over 28 million addresses in the UK. It will return a full address from a street name and town or postcode. The Fuzzy matching technology inherent in the Point2StreetAddress application also gives likely address matches from abbreviations, misspellings and incomplete addresses.
