February 2025

Points of Interest Product Amendments February 2025 Quarterly Update

This document details the data enhancements that are included within the February 2025 release of PointX data. PointX continually strives to improve its data holdings and this document highlights the specific changes made for the February 2025 release.

Improved data holdings

AddressBase Core and OS MasterMap Highways Network

AddressBase® Core and OS MasterMap® Highways Network updated to the January 2025 versions.

UPRN

Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) population has slightly increased to 49.45% and the population of the UPRN priority classes has decreased to 89.57% UPRN.

Further information on UPRNs priorities can be found in the user guide available on the PointX website.

Fuel Station Supplier Provenance

Following the acquisition of the Experian/Catalist fuel station data by Green Street Advisor (UK) Ltd the provenance of that data (including associated Car Washes and Stores) will now be given as Green Street Advisor (UK) Ltd, this is reflected in the order documentation. Please note that all licencing terms from Experian/Catalist have been novated to the Green Street supply.

Public EV Charger Locations

PointX have announced their intention to add publicly accessible electric vehicle charging locations in the September 2025 update. These will be added in a new Class number 10540832 “Public Electric Vehicle Charging Locations”. For contractual reasons, this data may only be sold to members of the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSGA). It is their intention to provide a small sample dataset, alongside the June update, for system testing in advance of the September release.

Emergency Service Records

PointX are focused on improving the currency of emergency service records and this will be reflected in current and future releases.

Latitude and Longitude

As mentioned in the December release note, PointX have shared their intention to include Latitude and Longitude within Points of Interest, along with the existing British National Grid References.

There are currently no plans to include Latitude and Longitude in the Points of Interest product available from Ordnance Survey. If including them would be helpful for you, please reach out to our Products team at: [e-mail]

URLs

PointX continues to use a URL reputation service to identify and remove any potentially malicious URLs from the product. However, it is recommended that the guidance as described in the user guide is followed in respect of the contents of the URL attribute.

All new or updated URL’s have been checked and refreshed to improve currency.

Feature Accuracy

PointX continues to improve the positional accuracy of features and this quarter they have updated hundreds of records.

Next release

The next release of Points of Interest is scheduled for:

June 2025