AddressBase Islands December 2024 – Epoch 115

This release note provides information about the December 2024 release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 19 December 2024.

Record counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands	1 153 050	4 262
AddressBase Premium Islands	See rows below	See rows below
Street	48,676	112
Street Descriptor	48,676	32
BLPU	1,236,926	4,892
Classification	1,236,926	2,348
LPI	1,246,637	3,017
Organisation	38,858	231
Delivery Point Address	965,179	1,081
Application Cross Ref.	1,302,955	2,789
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	1 275
Updates	2 687
Deletes	300

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands Table	Inserts	Updates	Deletes
Street	30	82	0
Street Descriptor	30	2	0
BLPU	1,272	3,438	182
Classification	1,272	894	182
LPI	1,299	1,536	182
Organisation	37	28	166
Delivery Point Address	666	323	92
Application Cross Ref.	1,291	1,194	304
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 115:

Data Source	Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)	14 November 2024
DigiMap (Channel Islands)	14 November 2024
Isle of Man	14 November 2024
Royal Mail PAF	14 November 2024

Data issues

AddressBase Premium Islands

• 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.

• AddressBase Premium Islands, AddressBase Plus Islands

• 14 102 PAF records (across GB and Islands product) had been previously withheld from product due to a processing constraint, which omitted UPRNs with multiple candidate PAF matches from showing in product as a one-one match. This was resolved on the 25/10/24.

Next release

The next release of AddressBase products, Epoch 116, is scheduled for 06 February 2025.