AddressBase™, developing a unique
national address gazetteer
Nick Turner, Address Migration and Business Development
Manager, Ordnance Survey
Carsten Rönsdorf, chair British Standards Institution Committee
for Geographic Information
Part 1: Standards as the basis
for addresses
Carsten Rönsdorf, chair British Standards Institution
Committee for Geographic Information (IST/36)
Agenda
• What standards bring to the table
• British Standards Institution IST/36 committee
• Snapshots and Lifecycles
• BS7666 – high level introduction
• Other address specifications
• Data models and GML
Why standards
• Apply to actual or potential problems
• For common and repeated use
• Aimed at achievement of optimum degree of order in a given
context
• Successful standards need to be:
• wanted, usable (implemented) and used
• beneficial and impartial
• up-to-date and have wide application
• Conformance can be tested / certified
• Can provide investment security
• Contain best practise
• Often available on RAND [Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory]
terms on a royalty-free basis (excl. BSi, ISO etc)
The IST/36 committee
• Government and industry representatives and co-opted experts
• Process and transparency
• Maintains BS7666
• UK representation in to ISO and CEN committees
• ISO TC211 foundational conceptualisation of geospatial data
• CEN TC287 focussing on how to use standards
• TR15449-x: how to use OGC and ISO standards to create a
Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Profiles: specialisations of standards, i.e. to make an international
standard more relevant in a national context
• Gemini 2.1 UK metadata standard for GI, based on ISO
• ISO/CEN liaison with the Open Geospatial Consortium
Property / address life cycle
Some BS7666 principles
• Geographical scope to cover all of UK, Isle of Man and
Channel Islands
• Meet national language requirements
• Enable cross-referencing with other data
• Maintenance of relationship between streets and BLPUs
• difficult cases to be clarified
• allow for those not fitting general model
• Separate implementation guidelines available
BS7666 structure
ISO 19112
Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
BS 7666 - 0
General model
BS 7666-1
Specification
for a
street
gazetteer
Annex
PROWs
BS 7666-2
Specification
for a
land &
property
gazetteer
Annex
Specification
for Addresses
BS 7666-5
Specification
for a
gazetteer
of
delivery points
Part 0: General model
• Provides a general model of spatial references based upon
named spatial units
• Defines the essential components of a gazetteer of geographic
locations
• Provides structure for gazetteers defined in other parts
• Based upon ISO 19112 Spatial referencing by geographic
identifiers
Location records
•mandatory
•optional
• identifier
• alternative identifier
• entry date
• classification
• update date
• external cross-refs
• start date
• end date
• position
• current state & date
• spatial reference
• extent
• administrator
• related location
• parent/child locations
Data quality report
• lineage
• currency
• positional accuracy
• attribute accuracy
• Completeness
All relating to ISO 19113/4 -> 19157
BLPU
UPRN
BLPU states
1 under construction
2 in use
3 unoccupied
4 no longer existing
Role of standards in the creation of AddressBaseTM
• Different address registers with their own identifiers
• Extensive data matching exercise
• Both main input datasets contained a BS7666 structured
address
• Integration of Scottish data with current database (England and
Wales only)
• AddressBase premium implements BS7666
• European Inspire address specification (mandatory for public
sector providers of addresses) is also built on 19112: standards
facilitate mapping processes
XML encoding stack
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Addresses
Image: T. Kolbe, 2007
BLPU + UPRN
Address data is heavily standards based
to provide integration and facilitate practical use.
Part 2: AddressBase™
Nick Turner
Address Migration and Business Development Manager
Historical Context
PAF
LLPG
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ADDRESS-POINT®
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OS MasterMap® Address Layer 2
Who contributes to the initiative
New Address Products
AddressBase™ Premium
The full lifecycle of an address or property
AddressBase™ Plus
The current view of an address or property
AddressBase™
The mailing address
All licensed under the PSMA, through direct
FCDC or FCP licenses
Product differential
AddressBase
AddressBase Plus
AddressBase Premium
UPRN
Coordinates
Classification
Royal Mail Postal Address
Royal Mail UDPRN
UPRN
Coordinates
Classification
Royal Mail Postal Address
Royal Mail UDPRN
Local Authority Geographic
Address
UPRN
Coordinates
Classification
Royal Mail Postal Address
Royal Mail UDPRN
Local Authority Geographic
Address
Local Authority meta data
XREF to OSMM TOIDS
Multiple occupancy
addresses
OWPAs
Local Authority meta data
XREF to OSMM TOIDS
Multiple occupancy
addresses
OWPAs
Provisional properties (prebuild)
Historic properties
Alternative addresses
Provisional addresses
Historic Addresses
Application cross references
Property / address life cycle
AddressBase™ Premium
Additions in the
national gazetteer
over 4 months
Changes in the
national gazetteer
over 3 months
Top ten targets (or maybe 11)
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DWP
HMRC
Cabinet Office – Electoral Reform
DVLA
Passport and Identity Service
UK Border Agency (VISA and Immigration)
Environment Agency
BBC TVL
Land Registry
ONS
DECC
NPIA Systems
Emergency
Services
BBC TVL
DWP
Land
Registry
UK
Borders
HMRC
Smart Metering
Environment
Agency
ONS
DECC
IPS
DVLA
Cabinet
Office
Universal Credit
Energy
Companies
and
OFGEM
Local
Authority
Electoral Reform
Tell Us Once
Direct Gov
Customer
Web
Call centre
Contact
Data
Address
Verification
Drop in
UPRN?
PAF
Premium
Address
Batch
Matching
UPRN?
UPRN
AddressBase™
PAF
Call
CIS
Response
Income
Support
AddressBase™
Premium
Software, solutions and tools
Ordnance Survey are engaging with the supplier community to
encourage them to develop tools, solutions and services that handle
AddressBase™
Engagement to date;
Software
Geo-Spatial
Addressing
CRM
IDOX
Capita
Civica
Northgate
Bartec
Biffa
Dotted eyes
1Spatial
Steria
Fortek
Sungard (Capita)
Mapflow
ESRI
MapInfo
Cadcorp
Intergraph
Astun Technology
Get-Mapping
Higher Mapping
Solutions
Europa Technology
Emapsite
Landmark
Snowflake
QAS
GB Group
PostcodeAnywhere
Lagan
Hopewiser
Aligned Assets
GGP
Northgate
Oracle
Microsoft Dynamics
Sage
Partnerships: objective to collaborate
Allowing our partners to:
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Take receipt of & manage the data
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Supply to licensed organisation
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Distribute under our Partner terms
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Add value in the form of additional attribution
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Deliver to clients within technology wrappers
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Transform or convert to proprietary formats
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Consult on extracting value and business change
Questions (and maybe some answers)
Contact for further information
Customer Contact Centre
Ordnance Survey
Romsey Road
SOUTHAMPTON
United Kingdom
SO16 4GU
Phone: 08456 05 05 05
Fax: 023 8079 2615
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk