AddressBase Islands January 2024 – Epoch 107

This release note provides information about the January 2024 (Epoch 107) release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 03 January 2024.

Record counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands	1 146 137	4 058
AddressBase Premium Islands	See rows below	See rows below
Street	48 392	145
Street Descriptor	48 390	34
BLPU	1 228 512	4 504
Classification	1 228 512	2 320
LPI	1 237 843	3 070
Organisation	39 414	126
Delivery Point Address	962 091	1 087
Application Cross Ref.	1 294 931	2 062
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	1 155
Updates	2 729
Deletes	174

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands Table	Inserts	Updates	Deletes
Street	34	111	0
Street Descriptor	34	0	0
BLPU	1 344	3 033	127
Classification	1 344	849	127
LPI	1 374	1 569	127
Organisation	40	26	60
Delivery Point Address	589	354	144
Application Cross Ref.	1 349	524	189

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 107:

Data Source	Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)	28 November 2023
DigiMap (Channel Islands)	30 November 2023
Isle of Man	30 November 2023
Royal Mail PAF	30 November 2023

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 108, is scheduled for Thursday 22 February 2024.