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

Addresses?

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

BS 7666 - 0General model

BS 7666-1Specification

for a street

gazetteer

BS 7666-2Specification

for a land &

propertygazetteer

BS 7666-5Specification

for a gazetteer

of delivery pointsAnnex

PROWs

AnnexSpecificationfor Addresses

ISO 19112Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

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

• identifier

• entry date

• update date

• start date

• position

• spatial reference

• administrator

•optional

• alternative identifier

• classification

• external cross-refs

• end date

• current state & date

• extent

• 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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Image: T. Kolbe, 2007

Addresses

Now in version 2.0: Create 3D from 2D, go

underground and integrate addresses

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

LLPG

• ADDRESS-POINT®

• OS MasterMap® Address Layer 2

PAF

Who contributes to the initiative

New Address Products

AddressBase™ PremiumThe full lifecycle of an address or property

AddressBase™ PlusThe 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 UPRN UPRNCoordinates Coordinates CoordinatesClassification Classification Classification

Royal Mail Postal Address Royal Mail Postal Address Royal Mail Postal AddressRoyal Mail UDPRN Royal Mail UDPRN Royal Mail UDPRN

Local Authority Geographic Address

Local Authority Geographic Address

Local Authority meta data Local Authority meta dataXREF to OSMM TOIDS XREF to OSMM TOIDS

Multiple occupancy addresses

Multiple occupancy addresses

OWPAs OWPAsProvisional properties (pre-build)

Historic properties

Alternative addressesProvisional addressesHistoric AddressesApplication 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)

• 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

Local Authority

HMRCDWP Cabinet Office

IPSLand Registry

ONS DECCUK Borders

BBC TVL Environment Agency

Universal Credit Electoral Reform

Tell Us Once

Smart MeteringNPIA Systems

Energy Companies

and OFGEM

DVLA

Direct Gov

Emergency Services

AddressBatch

Matching

Address Verification

Income Support

CIS

Web

Call centre

Drop in

UPRN

?

UPRN?

UPRN

Call

Response

Contact

Data

Customer

PAF

PAF

AddressBase™

Premium

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 CRMIDOX Capita Civica Northgate Bartec BiffaDotted eyes 1Spatial SteriaFortekSungard (Capita)Mapflow

ESRI MapInfo CadcorpIntergraphAstun TechnologyGet-MappingHigher Mapping SolutionsEuropa TechnologyEmapsiteLandmarkSnowflake

QASGB Group PostcodeAnywhere

Hopewiser

Aligned Assets

GGP

Lagan

Northgate

Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics

Sage

Partnerships: objective to collaborate

Allowing our partners to:

• Take receipt of & manage the data

• Supply to licensed organisation

• Distribute under our Partner terms

• Add value in the form of additional attribution

• Deliver to clients within technology wrappers

• Transform or convert to proprietary formats

• Consult on extracting value and business change

Questions (and maybe some answers)

Contact for further information

Customer Contact CentreOrdnance SurveyRomsey RoadSOUTHAMPTONUnited KingdomSO16 4GU

Phone: 08456 05 05 05

Fax: 023 8079 2615

Email: customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Website: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk