AddressBase Islands April 2024 – Epoch 109

This release note provides information about the April 2024 release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 05 April 2024.

Record Counts

ProductFull Supply Record CountChange-Only Update Record Count

AddressBase Plus Islands

1 147 124

172 849

AddressBase Premium Islands

See rows below

See rows below

Street

48 475

150

Street Descriptor

48 475

49

BLPU

1 230 820

181 155

Classification

1 230 820

2 205

LPI

1 240 191

2 448

Organisation

39 272

117

Delivery Point Address

962 791

2 622

Application Cross Ref.

1 297 099

2 408

Successor

0

0

Changed Records

If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase Islands product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following tables detail the count of these records.

AddressBase Plus Islands

Change TypeCount

Inserts

994

Updates

171 443

Deletes

412

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands TableInsertsUpdatesDeletes

Street

49

101

0

Street Descriptor

49

0

0

BLPU

1 412

179 670

73

Classification

1 412

720

73

LPI

1 424

951

73

Organisation

7

21

89

Delivery Point Address

1 205

652

765

Application Cross Ref.

1 400

872

136

Source Data Currency

The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 108:

Data SourceDate

Pointer (Northern Ireland)

28 February 2024

DigiMap (Channel Islands)

29 February 2024

Isle of Man

29 February 2024

Royal Mail PAF

28 February 2024

Data Issues

AddressBase Plus Islands Issues

There are no reported issues in this release of AddressBase Plus Islands.

AddressBase Premium Islands issues

Affected output formats: CSV and GML

  • Street incorrect coordinates There are two Streets which have incorrect start or end coordinates of 000000. The unique identifiers can be provided upon request through your OS Relationship Manager.

Notification of Epoch 109’s Improvement in Historic BLPU State Code Completeness and Large Release Size

Summary

This release includes an enhancement in the clarity and consistency of lifecycle representation within product.

A conformance improvement has been delivered for BLPU State attribute for records where the BLPU Logical Status was 8 (historic) and BLPU State was null; for increased completeness, BLPU State Code has been populated with value 4 (no longer existing) and date stamped for the change applied.

Issue description

The BLPU state identifies the current lifecycle stage of a property (or object) and is additional to the mandatory LOGICAL_ STATUS field.

The BLPU code is an optional attribute for Local Authority Custodians to complete and therefore this attribute may be NULL in product.

An improvement to the completeness of the BLPU State Code was identified as a quality enhancement for lifecycle information as values for BLPU state code 4 can be accurately inferred from a Logical Status of 8. This enhancement allows the data to be interpreted more easily by removing conflict between addresses with a historic logical status and no BLPU state.

All nations within GB and the Islands product regions will benefit from this improvement, as such it impacts approximately 1.2 million records for a Full Supply.

Impact

This quality improvement means a larger than usual supply of COUs.

Next Release

The next release of AddressBase Islands products, Epoch 110, is scheduled for Thursday 16 May 024.

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