MapInfo Tools

Address Finder enables the user to locate sites using advanced wildcard searching, based on the Royal Mail PAF data.

Address Finder is an advanced searching tool which uses Ordnance Surveys Address PointTM data set which is constructed from the Royal Mail PAF (Postcode Address File) data. Address Finder configures your data - even creating a MapInfo layer of points and a complete data set if needed. Once the data has been configured (a process only repeated when the OS release updates) you will be able to run the search function. The search function can be run from within MapInfo, MS Access or stand alone, you enter the key words or postcode in any order and the optimised search will locate the matches almost instantly. The rapid search can also use wildcards, i.e. you could search for '*Hospital* Somerset' which would produce a list of all the hospitals in Somerset. In MapInfo the addresses will be located and centred on screen, or the results can be copied to the clipboard.