Pub Gateway

Geodata Sources

Geographical data (geodata) on Pub Gateway comes from a variety of sources.

Latitude and Longitude information for pubs is supplied by users from their GPS devices or taken from OpenStreetMap under the terms of their licence.

Postcode checks are performed via MaPit, which is run by mySociety.

Maps are displayed by Google Maps using the existing geodata within the Pub Gateway database. No geodata is taken from Google Maps.

This database contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2010; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2010 (Code-Point Open); Office for National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2010 (NSPD Open) and © Crown copyright 2004 (Super Output Areas). Great Britain non-SOA data may be used under the terms of the OS OpenData licence (PDF). Northern Ireland data may be used under the terms of the NSPD Open licence (Word). Super Output Area data may presumably be used under OS OpenData and the Open Government Licence.