MapIt API
General information
- Format
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All calls return JSON, you can generally get an HTML representation by sticking .html on the end.
Whenever an area is returned from MapIt, it is as a dictionary with the following keys: id, name, country, type, parent_area, generation_low, generation_high, codes.
- Historical areas
- By default, calls will return active areas; for some calls you may specify a previous generation to look up instead. {% include "mapit/index-general-extra.html" %}
About MapIt
MapIt was written back in 2003 as a postcode lookup to power the original mySociety sites such as WriteToThem. Over time it gained features such as point lookup (for FixMyStreet), and when Ordnance Survey data became freely available in 2010, it was rewritten and made public for the whole UK. {% include "mapit/index-others.html" %}