AddressBase Islands August 2024 – Epoch 112

This release note provides information about the August 2024 release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 15 August 2024.

Record Counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands	1 150 054	4433
AddressBase Premium Islands	See rows below	See rows below
Street	48 571	165
Street Descriptor	48 571	40
BLPU	1 233 949	5281
Classification	1 233 949	2 967
LPI	1 243 453	3 693
Organisation	38 320	804
Delivery Point Address	963 636	1 252
Application Cross Ref.	1 300 064	1 812
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 Type	Count
Inserts	1 106
Updates	3 013
Deletes	314

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands Table	Inserts	Updates	Deletes
Street	40	125	0
Street Descriptor	40	0	0
BLPU	1 185	3 911	185
Classification	1 185	1 597	185
LPI	1 200	2 308	185
Organisation	52	69	683
Delivery Point Address	601	252	399
Application Cross Ref.	1 162	428	222
Successor	0	0	0

It is important that COUs are processed with Deletes first, then Inserts and Updates. This is to ensure that updates are applied in the correct order. Further guidance on this can be found in 'Working with COU data' in the AddressBase Getting Started Guide.

Source Data Currency

The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 112:

Data Source	Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)	11 July 2024
DigiMap (Channel Islands)	04 July 2024
Isle of Man	11 July 2024
Royal Mail PAF	11 July 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.

Next Release

The next release of AddressBase Islands products, Epoch 113, is scheduled for 26 September 2024.