This release note provides information about the April 2024 release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 05 April 2024.
| Product | Full Supply Record Count | Change-Only Update Record Count |
|---|---|---|
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.
| Change Type | Count |
|---|---|
The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 108:
There are no reported issues in this release of AddressBase Plus Islands.
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.
Notification of Epoch 109’s Improvement in Historic BLPU State Code Completeness and Large Release Size
This release includes an enhancement in the clarity and consistency of life cycle representation within product.
A conformance improvement has been delivered for BLPU State attribute for records where the BLPU Logical Status was 8 (historic) and BLPU State was null, for increased completeness BLPU State Code has been populated with value 4 (no longer existing) and date stamped for the change applied.
The BLPU state identifies the current life cycle stage of a property (or object) and is additional to the mandatory LOGICAL_ STATUS field.
The BLPU code is an optional attribute for Local Authority Custodians to complete and therefore this attribute may be NULL in product.
An improvement to the completeness of the BLPU State Code was identified as a quality enhancement for life cycle information as values for BLPU state code 4 can be accurately inferred from a Logical Status of 8. This enhancement allows the data to be interpreted more easily by removing conflict between addresses with a historic logical status and no BLPU state.
All nations within GB and the Islands product regions will benefit from this improvement, as such it impacts approximately 1.2 million records for a full supply.
This quality improvement means a larger than usual supply of COUs.
The next release of AddressBase Islands products, Epoch 110, is scheduled for Thursday 16th May 024.
| AddressBase Premium Islands Table | Inserts | Updates | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Source | Date |
|---|---|
AddressBase Plus Islands
1 147 124
172 849
AddressBase Premium Islands
See rows below
See rows below
Street
48 475
150
Street Descriptor
48 475
49
BLPU
1 230 820
181 155
Classification
1 230 820
2 205
LPI
1 240 191
2 448
Organisation
39 272
117
Delivery Point Address
962 791
2 622
Application Cross Ref.
1 297 099
2 408
Successor
0
0
Inserts
994
Updates
171 443
Deletes
412
Street
49
101
0
Street Descriptor
49
0
0
BLPU
1 412
179 670
73
Classification
1 412
720
73
LPI
1 424
951
73
Organisation
7
21
89
Delivery Point Address
1 205
652
765
Application Cross Ref.
1 400
872
136
Pointer (Northern Ireland)
28 February 2024
DigiMap (Channel Islands)
29 February 2024
Isle of Man
29 February 2024
Royal Mail PAF
28 February 2024
It is important that COUs are processed with Deletes first, then Inserts and Updates; this is to ensure that updates are applied in the correct order. Guidance on this can be found in the Working with COU data page in the Getting Started Guides for AddressBase, AddressBase Plus and AddressBase Plus Islands.