Hello everyone I'm fairly new to the list, so please advise if my question is not appropriate.
I have been gathering address and UK postcode data of all the organisations we work with (I'm at a government agency which does a lot of educational and arts-based project work). I would like to generate maps and reports for MPs, MSPs, AMs, MLAs and others about the activities we fund in their region. I'm aware of the wonderful theyworkforyou.com apis, especially http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/docs/getConstituency for Westminster constituencies. I would appreciate help on how to match against other boundaries such as Welsh, Scottish, NI devolved administrations and UK local authorities. I have seen in other posts that there are licencing restrictions for postcode data, of course I am happy to geo-code the data and then use latitude and longitude to get the match. I'm not very familiar with mapping concepts but understand that if I have geocoded data it will be possible, using a shapefile (?) to map the location to the various geographical areas. Are such shapefiles available for the various types of UK boundary? How does tfwy determine the match between a postcode and a constituency? Thanks for your help Michael
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