AddressBase Islands September 2024 – Epoch 113

This release note provides information about the September 2024 release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 26 September 2024.

Record counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands	1 151 329	4 703
AddressBase Premium Islands	See rows below	See rows below
Street	48 616	162
Street Descriptor	48 616	45
BLPU	1 235 260	5 216
Classification	1 235 260	2 378
LPI	1 244 828	3 229
Organisation	38 270	181
Delivery Point Address	964 121	1 018
Application Cross Ref.	1 301 334	3 067
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	1 531
Updates	2 916
Deletes	256

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands Table	Inserts	Updates	Deletes
Street	45	117	0
Street Descriptor	45	0	0
BLPU	1 523	3 481	212
Classification	1 523	643	212
LPI	1 587	1 430	212
Organisation	53	25	103
Delivery Point Address	605	293	120
Application Cross Ref.	1 538	1 261	268
Successor	0	0	0

It's 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 113:

Data Source	Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)	22 August 2024
DigiMap (Channel Islands)	22 August 2024
Isle of Man	21 August 2024
Royal Mail PAF	22 August 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 114, is scheduled for 07 November 2024.