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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 sales 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.
Most organisations have a contact address database which stores data about each contact. For a customer, typically it contains an address and data about sales of goods or services, such as date of purchase, type of product or value of sale or characteristics of a contact such as male or female or regular or new customer. PostcodeAnalyst software not only lets you map contacts but allows you to map any field of data in a contact's database record. So you can map sales revenues by products which were sold to new customers. By selecting a period such as a week, month or year, you can make maps for each product and period and interpret these maps for different periods to gain geo-intelligence about the dynamics of your business activities
Maps can give you an improved awareness and valuable insight into the changing distributions of your contacts. They allow you grasp quickly the business significance of changes in distributions over two or more periods. PostcodeAnalyst software lets you create maps of your own data. You will already have an intimate understanding and deep perception of the situation portrayed on maps. You should be able to draw upon your knowledge and accuity to interpret and comprehend the significance of each map in terms of your business strategy and vision By letting you map contacts, customers, product sales, revenues and other variables by product or map patients, students or any "contacts" using the postcodes in your contacts address database, PostcodeAnalyst software gives you a deeper understanding, intelligence and penetration of your business activities, geographical dimensions, dynamics and directions.
The capability to create multiple maps portraying different products over selected periods can provide valuable information about market responses to promotional activities by postcode areas, districts, sectors or units. This information can be analysed in relation to the characteristics of the people living in postcode zones. Geodemographic information can inform promotional activities, help target areas and improve marketing efficiency and profitability of your business.
Managers in business, commerce, industry and research can benefit significantly from having greater comprehension of the geographical and temporal dimensions in their activities. Markets are dynamic and change continually. By studying changes every week, month or year, you can gain knowledge and reassurance about your business activities. The requirements of different types of business differ greatly but the following case studies reveal the breadth and diversity of applications of Graticule's PostcodeAnalyst 3 UK software with embedded multi-scale colour map data.
Case Studies
- Managers in a lift service business use PostcodeAnalyst software to allocate service engineers to jobs by proximity to the home of each engineer or depot. PostcodeAnalyst software has significantly reduced total travel distances, costs and time and improved business efficiency and profitability. Many other types of businesses use PostcodeAnalyst software in a similar way for allocating by proximity clients to financial advisers, patients to private medical consultants and pupils to schools and employees to distributed offices or a single new office.
- Retail outlets, shopping centres and depots use PostcodeAnalyst software for market research into where customers reside relative to outlets, how far customers are prepared to travel for purchasing different categories of products, how much they spend, what socio-economic classification of their home postcode and response to promotional activities.
- Universities and colleges use PostcodeAnalyst software to plot the location of schools and universities and colleges, plan recruitment visits to target schools by academics from different fields and analyse and compare the number of applications and admissions which result from each school to gain an insight into the effectiveness of promotional activities by subject, school and geographical area.
- Chemical businesses supplying fertilisers to farms use PostcodeAnalyst software to map farms, plan routes by road using RouteFinda and compare and analyse annual sales by type and value in each postcode sector and district in the UK relative to promotional activities, weather and other factors.
- Banks, finance and insurance companies use PostcodeAnalyst software to plot the location of clients, plan home visits, map revenues, claims, hazards and risks by postcodes.
- Social workers and charities use PostcodeAnalyst software for gaining an insight into where their clients reside, travel distances by road and minimal distances to visit several clients or deliver leaflets.
- Businesses use PostcodeAnalyst software to define and map their sales territories by postcode areas, districts or sectors in the UK and capture sales revenues, profits, costs,debts, etc. by each territory on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis and map the location of each outlet and customer.
- Public health managers and researcher use PostcodeAnalyst software to plot the location of an outbreak of disease and monitor its geographical spread over time using multiple maps with symbols and dates.
Benefits
- Plan promotional campaigns to target selected types of customers.
- Gain geo-intelligence about your business activities locally, regionally or nationally over weeks, months or years.
- Map changes in your business activities from quarter to quarter or year to year.
- Create territories, capture all customers within a territory,sales by type, sales revenues or other variables and analyse results in statistical maps for comparing performances by territories.
- 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 distances, costs and times.
- Easy to learn and use Microsoft Windows application with interactive Help file.
- Lets you save and compare maps of your business contacts by selected time periods.
You can read contact addresses with postcodes from an Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet, Access Database or ASCII text Comma Separated Value(CSV)file. A symbol, icon or pin on a digital map shows the location of each contact. You can choose different symbols (shape, colour or size) to differentiate types of contacts. The PostcodeAnalyst 3 application lets you plot data related to your contacts: type of sales, value of sales, repeat business, response to promotional offer or profitability of sales providing you have the data in your business database. You can prepare maps for each month, quarter or year and compare changes in the geographical dimensions of your business. By creating different types of map overlays, you can gain an insight into far a customer has travelled by road to an outlet for each type of product or service. You can map data by value, profit or response to promotions over a chosen period. You can prepare successive sets of maps and gain valuable insights into changes in your business activities over local, regional or national areas.
The PostcodeAnalyst 3 application for Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7 lets you:
The PostcodeAnalyst 3 application for Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7 lets you:
- 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.
- Create
- Display and interpret geographical maps of your business activities using different symbols to represent different types of data which you have collected.
- View
- Click on a map symbol and view the data for that contact from database.
- Reveal
- Gain geo-intelligence about your business activities and changes by comparing and interpreting maps for different periods locally, regionally or nationally.
- Analyse
- Analyse and interpret geographical distributions on maps using statistical or thematic maps to gain an insight into your business and how to improve its efficiency.
- Devise
- Create sales territories by merging postcode zones and capture results by individual territory and compare results for all territories by product or service.
- 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 to gain customer insight.
- 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.
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 all customers within a circle of a given radius of an outlet;
- Find nearest outlet to a customer's address;
- Save data to a file or cut and paste output to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet;
- Compute thousands of postcode records;
- Easy to learn, easy to use, text application which gives results;
- Includes up-to-date postcode data of the UK.
Calculate distances and drive-times by road between postcodes in UK
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The PostcodeCalculator 2 Pro application for computers running Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or 7 environments extends functions and features of the PostcodeCalculator 2 application by including functions for calculating distances by road and estimating off-peak drive-times between any two given postcodes in the UK. The estimaates of off-peak drive-times are based on the average speed of vehicular travel for each segment of the road network and each class of road such as motorways, A roads, B roads, etc. The input is two lists of postcodes in the UK signifying the start and end of each trip or journey. The output is two additional columns of data giving distances in miles and drive-times in minutes.
PostcodeCalculator 2 Pro software is being in a variety of businesses for calculating and costing journeys by road, auditing mileage claims and costs, estimating prices for freight haulage, taxis and coach travel. It is also being used to assess the accessibility of outlets such as shops, banks, supermarkets and shopping centres by analysis of distances by road from customers home postcodes to that of the outlet or shopping centre.
Benefits
- Calculates distances and off-peak, drive-times by road for quotes for freight haulage, coach services, taxi hire, home deliveries and many other types of logistical solutions in diverse types of business and other organisations.
- Calculates schedules for journeys by road and facilitates scheduling appointments and estimates of off-peak travel-times by road.
- Provides data for estimating costs of travel, staff costs and related calculations.
- Easy to learn how to use PostcodeCalculator 2 Pro application - you only have to enter start and end postcodes for a trip or read them from an Excel or Access address file.
- Easy to interpret output and cut and paste it into a spreadsheet.
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 unnecessary 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 off-peak drive-times by road between two postcodes in the United Kingdom. It provides fast estimates of off-peak, drive-times by road between pairs of postcodes or batch processes files of postcode data to produce look-up tables. DrivetimeFinda uses the off-peak, average driving speed for each segment of the road network, and distances, to compute estimated drive-times.The input and output data is in ASCII Text or binary format.
DriveTimeFidna software is being used to find times to drive to the nearest hotel, garage, sports ground or other location. It provides a valuable addition to business office systems and websites. It is currently being used by businesses for planning and logistics.
Benefits
- Estimate off-peak, travel-times by road in the UK
- Estimate fuel costs for a given trip or journey
- Improve levels of customer service for business or home delivery
- Improve efficiency of logistics planning
The DriveTimeFinda application runs on computers running Microsfot Windows or Linux. It is available for self-hosted servers and websites and as Graticule's popular pay-per-hit, web-service for businesses. The result of computing drive-times by road between all postcode sector centroids in the UK are available as Graticule's Drive-Time Data Matrix. The matrix provides a look-up table for use in office information systems or websites.
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DriveTimeFinda Application
- Import data from ASCII text commma separated value (CSV) file containing geo-coded postcode sector or postcode unit centroids of the UK.
- Import vector map data of the road network in the UK at the scale and level of detail which you require. The choice is usually road atlas digital map data at 1/200,000 scale or street data at a scale of 1/20,000.
- Install and run DriveTimeFinda software for Windows or Linux on desktop or server computer.
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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 with office systems or websites.
- Graticule offer to install software and data and update and maintain the application.
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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 linking to websites or corporate systems.
- View the demonstration site
- Graticule offer a free 48-hour demonstration of the Pay-Per-Hit service.
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Graticule Drive-Time Data Matrix UK
- Provides off-peak, drive-times by road between all postcode sector centroids in the UK.
- Provides a 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 centroids 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 Application 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
- Prompt 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.
