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Show HN: A map of every UK company, updated monthly
A year ago I was thinking about starting a side business. I needed a map that would show me companies in the local area I could try to sell to. I soon believed the map would be useful to others so I built it and put it online, here it is.
- optionalltd 4mo agohttps://companymap.co.uk/story.html https://companymap.co.uk/story.html
- defrost 4mo agoWhat's a company? Is a registered address for a registered company? If so, how many companies have the same address & what's the greatest number of companies with the same address?
- optionalltd 4mo agoHi Sorry for the delay replying, I've been at work. A company is a registered company in the UK (mostly private limited companies, plus LLPs, PLCs etc), geocoded I geocoded the company address found on companies house. Address sharing is huge: about 3.9M of the 6.4M companies share their registered address with at least one other. The record is 71-75 Shelton Street in Covent Garden, with 101,007 companies registered at it. 128 City Road is next with ~53k. If you click an individual location on the map it should tell you how many companies are at that location.
- defrost 4mo agoNo drama, thanks for the reply. I've less interest in the map part, more curious about where you're going with companies and railway stations (and other UK GIS data sets). The back end analytics and cross products of various sets gets interesting for teasing out things interesting on their own, some with the potential for commercial product, forensic tracking, scam busting, etc.
- optionalltd 4mo agoAny other data sets you would find particularly interesting? I was thinking about doing UK planning data too.