AddressBase Premium Islands Technical Specification

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

The AddressBase Premium Islands 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.

This product was designed to allow current customers of AddressBase Premium to add this product (AddressBase Premium Islands) to their current data holdings. This means there are columns in the schema of this product which will never be populated. These are identified on the appropriate pages throughout this specification document.

Index

• Data formats

• Supply and update

• AddressBase Premium structure

• Feature types

• Structured data types

• Dataset metadata

• Code lists and enumerations

• Attribute names format comparison

• Example records

AddressBase fundamentals

Additional documentation covering the complete family of AddressBase products is available in the AddressBase Fundamentals pages. These covers key elements of design for AddressBase products, including:

• Future and past publication dates

• Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN)

• Coordinate reference systems

• Classification scheme

• Data sources

• Street names and numbering

• Currency completeness and precision

• Product supply

• AddressBase local custodian codes

• AddressBase Islands local custodian codes