This release note provides information about the November 2024 (Epoch 114) release of the AddressBase products. These products were released to customers on 07 November 2024.
AddressBase family product technical documentation (including technical specifications, release notes, getting started guides, etc.) is now available on the new OS Download Products’ Documentation Platform. This platform is the new central location for all technical documentation for OS Premium and OpenData Download products (such as AddressBase, OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS Open UPRN, etc.).
Over the next few months, the old PDFs containing product technical documentation will be removed from the product pages of the OS website and replaced by links to the refreshed documentation on the new platform.
Release notes for AddressBase products are available on the new platform; simply navigate to the new platform and click Addressing and location portfolio > AddressBase Core Principles > Release Notes. Static PDF release notes for the AddressBase products will be replaced by digital release notes on the new platform over the next few months.
| Product | Full Supply Record Count[1] | Change-Only Update Record Count[2] |
|---|---|---|
These counts are based on a Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS). If you have ordered your national coverage via the online ordering system using a polygon outline, then your counts may differ.
Change-Only Updates are not available for the OS Open UPRN product.
There is a difference in product counts between taking a national Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS) and a national Area of Interest (AOI). This is because the two supplies use different selection criteria. The differences are shown in the following table, allowing for you to validate your data holdings once you have loaded the latest release of AddressBase data.
The national AOI refers to the pre-selection GB polygon from our download store. Therefore, if you have drawn your own AOI, the count will vary.
If you are unsure of your supply type, please check this with your OS Relationship Manager.
If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following tables detail the numbers of these records which can be expected in an MGBS supply, and also how many tiles are affected if you take your supply as Changed Chunks.
The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 114:
Affected output formats: CSV and GML
There are 6 038 Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) which reference a Parent UPRN that cannot be found in the product. This is because the Parent UPRN is either provisional or historic and is not matched to the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF) or Valuation Office Agency (VOA) record, meaning that it is not included in the AddressBase Plus product as per the existing background logic rules.
There are 211 records with a sao_start_no or sao_text that have no Parent UPRN in the product. This is because the Parent UPRN is a historical record which is included as part of the logic for record inclusion in the AddressBase Plus products.
The match rates for Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates for Epoch 114 are detailed as follows based on Valuation Office Agency (VOA) records up to 01 October 2024. The match rate is applicable to the AddressBase Premium product.
Work is being undertaken to improve the classifications of records within the AddressBase products. This work has resulted in 37 159 more tertiary classifications present in Epoch 114 compared to Epoch 113. Indeed, 88.71% of these tertiary classification improvements are against residential codes.
The following graph shows the number of Postcode Address File (PAF) matched records in AddressBase by epoch:
The next release of AddressBase products, Epoch 115, is scheduled for 19 December 2024.
| Product | MGBS Full Count | National AOI Full Count | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Change Type | Count |
|---|---|
| AddressBase Premium Table | Inserts | Updates | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Source | Date |
|---|---|
| Data Source | Records Received | % Matched |
|---|---|---|
OS OpenUPRN
40 942 871
N/A
AddressBase
30 582 163
141 175
AddressBase Plus
38 189 289
575 982
AddressBase Premium
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Street
1 511 026
10 216
Street Descriptor
1 634 723
3 405
BLPU
40 942 871
281 573
Classification
44 784 714
114 548
LPI
46 134 919
134 455
Organisation
1 421 024
13 457
Delivery Point Address
30 689 594
60 166
Application Cross Ref.
198 468 224
739 827
Successor
0
0
AddressBase
30 582 163
30 582 163
0
AddressBase Plus
38 189 289
38 189 268
21
AddressBase Premium
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Street
1 511 026
1 511 024
2
Street Descriptor
1 634 723
1 634 721
2
BLPU
40 942 871
40 942 846
25
Classification
44 784 714
44 784 689
25
LPI
46 134 919
46 134 893
26
Organisation
1 421 024
1 421 022
2
Delivery Point Address
30 689 594
30 689 594
0
Application Cross Ref.
198 468 224
198 468 199
25
Successor
0
0
0
Inserts
39 785
Updates
91 284
Deletes
10 106
COU Populated Tile Count
5 139
Inserts
47 501
Updates
514 065
Deletes
14 416
COU Populated Tile Count
7 133
Street
1 372
8 603
241
Street Descriptor
1 503
1 661
241
BLPU
38 154
238 422
4 997
Classification
46 915
47 356
20 277
LPI
51 599
76 996
5 860
Organisation
3 892
3 831
5 734
Delivery Point Address
39 984
10 212
9 970
Application Cross Ref.
202 342
496 125
41 360
Royal Mail PAF
03 October 2024
National Land and Property Gazetteer
03 October 2024
One Scotland Gazetteer
16 September 2024
VOA Non-Domestic Rates
01 October 2024
VOA Council Tax
01 October 2024
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
24 September 2024
OS MasterMap Highways Network
03 October 2024
Code-Point with Polygons
01 October 2024
Boundary-Line
02 October 2024
Council tax
27 171 964
99.92
Non-domestic rates
2 121 757
96.47