AddressBase Islands November 2023 – Epoch 106

This release note provides information about the November 2023 (Epoch 106) release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 23 November 2023.

Record counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands	1 145 156	3 624
AddressBase Premium Islands	See rows below	See rows below
Street	48 358	122
Street Descriptor	48 358	33
BLPU	1 227 295	9 223
Classification	1 227 295	7 246
LPI	1 236 596	7 676
Organisation	39 434	518
Delivery Point Address	961 646	1 091
Application Cross Ref.	1 293 771	6 576
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	1 283
Updates	2 147
Deletes	194

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands Table	Inserts	Updates	Deletes
Street	32	89	1
Street Descriptor	32	0	1
BLPU	6 265	2 915	43
Classification	6 265	938	43
LPI	6 342	1 291	43
Organisation	417	11	90
Delivery Point Address	550	432	109
Application Cross Ref.	6 293	235	48

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 106:

Data Source	Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)	19 October 2023
DigiMap (Channel Islands)	19 October 2023
Isle of Man	19 October 2023
Royal Mail PAF	19 October 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 107, is scheduled for Friday 05 January 2024.