AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Islands | Data Products | OSOrdnance Survey

AddressBase Premium Islands provides the most detailed view of an address and its lifecycle for Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It has more records than AddressBase Plus Islands as it provides all the information relating to an address or property from creation to retirement.

This product is updated every six weeks.

Please see AddressBase Premium getting started guide for instructions on how to load and work with AddressBase Premium Islands data.

Representation of AddressBase Islands data

Features

Addressing outside of Great Britain

For the first time, AddressBase customers can access over 1 million extra records complete with the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN), outside of Great Britain. Get a three-month free trial of AddressBase Islands data by signing up to our Data Exploration Licence.

Boost your marketing ROI

AddressBase Islands means you can run successful national campaigns - or build awareness in new markets, targeting households in properties converted into flats, for example.

Available in two versions

AddressBase Islands is available in two versions, allowing you to attach it to your existing GB AddressBase product, whether that's AddressBase Plus or AddressBase Premium.

Straightforward licensing

We offer the same style of licence for AddressBase Islands as existing AddressBase products. This ensures you can use your AddressBase Islands data in a consistent way across the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies.

Use Cases

Consistent property information

For major businesses offering household services nationwide, taking AddressBase Islands means you have consistent property information for Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man on tap from a single source.

Reliable records

in the busy call centre environment, your staff will always get results no matter where the address is located, and because our data is regularly updated, your records will be more reliable, too.

Summary

• Access: Download

• Data theme: Address

• Data structure: Vector – Points

• Coverage: Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

• Scale: 1:1 250 to 1:10 000

• Format: CSV, GML 3.2.1

• Ordering area: Full Islands Set

• OS Data Hub Plan: Public Sector Plan, Premium Plan, Energy & Infrastructure Plan

Additional Information

Paying Royal Mail royalties as a commercial customer

Royal Mail royalties are included into the licence fee if you are already a Great Britain AddressBase product customer. Additional Royal Mail royalties will apply if you aren't an existing Great Britain customer.

Differences between the two AddressBase Island products

There are two AddressBase Islands products: AddressBase Plus Islands and AddressBase Premium Islands.

• AddressBase Plus Islands contains current properties including addresses sourced from Local Authorities, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, all provided with a UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number), for Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The product enables the end-user to locate an address or property on a map using either X, Y coordinates supplied on a British National Grid or Latitude and Longitude coordinates provided on an ETRS89 projection.

• AddressBase Premium Islands provides the most detailed view of an address and its lifecycle for Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It has more records than AddressBase Plus Islands as it provides all the information relating to an address or property from creation to retirement. The product contains Local Authority, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail addresses. This includes provisional addresses (proposed planning developments), and historic information (demolished properties) where available.

Ordnance Survey addresses are added to the AddressBase Premium Islands product where necessary to ensure the schema meets the core AddressBase products.

Royal Mail's Postcode Address File

The Islands products contain Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF). This is a vital component of both Islands products. Royal Mail information will therefore be present where a match can be made between the Local Authority address and an address from Royal Mail.

Data from Royal Mail’s PAF

The database is a vital component of the single address gazetteer database and is in each of the AddressBase products where there has been a match confirming the address to the LLPG address.

How to get this product

Access to this product is free for Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) Members. Find out if you are a PSGA Member or try out a sample of AddressBase Premium Islands data by accessing the product page on the OS website, which has links to all of the relevant resources. Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.

Other ways to access this data

AddressBase Premium Islands data is available from our OS Places API and OS Match & Cleanse API, providing up-to-date information relating to an address or property from creation to retirement. Find out more about our OS API platform here to unlock programmatic access to rich geospatial data and integrate OS data and services into your applications.

Access to UK address data is also available through the OS NGD Address theme, providing data that is interoperable with other OS NGD themes, up to daily currency, and a data schema designed to be simple to use and interrogate. Users may find NGD address data more accessible and easier to use with databases and GIS software. Find out more about NGD data here to discover how to access OS NGD and what's available to users.

What's next?

To access additional documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:

AddressBase Fundamentals

The AddressBase Fundamentals pages provide an overview of the 'family' of AddressBase products, covering key elements of design for AddressBase products.

Getting Started Guide

The getting started guide provides instructions for using AddressBase Premium in different software applications. Users with limited technical knowledge will be able to follow this guide.

Technical Specification

The technical specification provides detailed technical information about AddressBase Premium. It is targeted at technical users and software developers.

Downloads

The downloads page provides links and resources to support the application of AddressBase Premium Islands within your environment.

New users should start with the Fundamentals pages to gain high-level insight into AddressBase products. The Getting Started Guide will help you to begin using product data in different software systems. The Technical Specification contains detailed technical insights.