March 2026

This document details the data enhancements that are included within the March 2026 release of PointX data. PointX continually strives to improve its data holdings and this document highlights the specific changes made for the March 2026 release.

Improved data holdings

AddressBase Core and OS MasterMap Highways Network

AddressBase Core and OS MasterMap Highways Network updated to the January 2026 versions.

UPRN

Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) population has increased to 48.56% and the population of the UPRN priority classes has decreased to 87.25% 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 added publicly accessible electric vehicle charging locations to future orders beginning with the September 2025 release. These have been added with a new PointX Classification Code of 10540832 which has a description of "Public Electric Vehicle Charging Locations" and a new provenance of "Zapmap". A number of the PointX order documents have been updated to reflect the inclusion of this new data and classification.

For contractual reasons, this data may only be sold to members of the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA).

USRN lookup

PointX are now providing a new lookup text file for the USRN_MATCH_INDICATOR attribute, starting with the December 2025 order.

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 URLs 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.

Descriptive classes

The PDF for the PointX descriptive classes for 2026 has been updated to include the mention of Vape businesses under class 09470699, Convenience Stores and Independent Supermarkets.

Copyright file

The copyright file has been updated to Copyright_2026

Next release

The next release of Points of Interest is scheduled for June 2026.