The goal behind this project is to collate a set of data sources and create a set of rules for transforming these data sets into a simple re-usable search index that can be used to geo code objects and as a location autocompleter.
The OS place names data can be requested here. Once downloaded you will need to extract the DATA directory to ./os-data. The places import can be run using npm run places
The districts or UK Subdivisions data can be found here. Once downloaded should be stored here ./data/uk_subdivisions_v1.geo.json
The postcode districts data can be found here. Once downloaded store it here ./data/postcode-districts.csv