Points of Interest contains around 4 million places across Great Britain that you can visit - for business and pleasure. Each point is classified into one of more than 600 types, so you can identify points by their use and function as well as by their postal address or location.

Points of Interest has a highly developed three-level classification system to help you identify the features you are interested in. Points are classified into 9 broad Groups, 49 subject categories and then around 615 highly specific Classes. This might be anything from accommodation (for a business traveller or tourist) through landscape features (for planning uses or the emergency services) to transport links (from rail and air to bus and tram users). Points of Interest includes POIs with a postal address (eg banks, hotels and restaurants) and those without (eg lakes, electricity sub stations and golf courses).

Each Points of Interest feature is provided with a national grid coordinate so it can be visualised as a point on a digital mapping system. When Points of Interest is combined with mapping, it becomes a powerful component in a modern, detailed location-based application. 

Features and benefits

• Identify and use Points of Interest in any one of more than 600 unique Classes (such as dental surgeries, nightclubs and playgrounds).
• Points derived from over 150 suppliers
• Attributions include brand names, telephone numbers and web addresses.
• Includes details on nearest roads to create navigation applications.

Technical details

Themes: Accommodation, eating and drinking; commercial services; attractions; sport and entertainment; education and health; public infrastructure; manufacturing and production; retail; transport.

Data Structure: Shape File, Database

Classification: 3 tier hierarchical classification (9 Groups, 52 Categories and 616 Classes).

Key Attribution: Unique reference number, feature name, classification code, geo-code, positional accuracy code, topographic reference, road network reference, distance to nearest road, postal address detail, telephone number, web URL, brand, provenance.

Supply: DOWNLOAD,

Total feature count: 4,004,823 (December 2010 release).

Coverage: Great Britain.

Price*

From as little as £0.01696 per point

Sample

The sample below shows some supermarket POI data on some Streetview data.

The sample below is a snapshot of the raw POI data.  Click to enlarge.

*Price listed is based on a bulk order of tiles and excludes VAT