This release note provides information about the March 2025 Epoch 117 release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 20 March 2025
Record counts
Product
Full Supply Record Count
Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands
1 154 935
3 461
AddressBase Premium Islands
See rows below
See rows below
Street
48 760
127
Street Descriptor
48 760
49
BLPU
1 239 229
3 933
Classification
1 239 229
2 023
LPI
1 249 018
2 597
Organisation
38 742
258
Delivery Point Address
966 474
1 129
Application Cross Ref.
1 305 033
1 692
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
1 039
Updates
2 234
Deletes
188
AddressBase Premium Islands
AddressBase Premium Islands Table
Inserts
Updates
Deletes
Street
35
90
2
Street Descriptor
35
12
2
BLPU
1 124
2 684
125
Classification
1 124
774
125
LPI
1 193
1 279
125
Organisation
58
57
143
Delivery Point Address
654
325
150
Application Cross Ref.
1 114
385
193
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 117:
Data Source
Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)
13 February 2025
DigiMap (Channel Islands)
13 February 2025
Isle of Man
13 February 2025
Royal Mail PAF
13 February 2025
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 118, is scheduled for 01 May 2025.
