GB Address

The OS NGD GB Address Collection is a complete, analytical and authoritative addressing dataset for Great Britain. It is designed to provide a detailed view of an address and its lifecycle.

Collection applications

The OS NGD GB Address Collection allows you to:

• Keep your address data current with up to daily updates.

• Utilise the richness of Local Authority data and analyse addresses by their classification, postal status and build status to create a detailed picture of a given area.

• Access all addresses in Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF), with the ability to use PAF’s Unique Delivery Point Reference Number (UDPRN) alongside the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN).

• Create mail shots using the Royal Mail address.

• Carry out spatial analysis and aggregation using the accurate rooftop coordinates provided for each address.

• Easily identify and download addresses by pre-build, built and historic lifecycle stages.

• Use the UPRN to easily link different data sets right down to a single address.

Examples of Built Address and Royal Mail Address features and the attribution provided for these features.

Key elements

• A full representation of an address as you can view both the Royal Mail and Local Authority representations of it.

• Up to daily updates to data.

• New simplified data model means there’s no need to be an addressing expert to use the data.

• Plug and play – the data is simple and quick to implement as you don't need to pre-process it before you use it.

• Rich attribution ensures the data is straightforward to navigate and query.

• Persistent unique identifiers with lifecycle information.

• The ability to select addresses from a specific lifecycle state (for example, Built Address and Pre-Build Address).

• Full UK address coverage available via accessing the OS NGD GB Address and Islands Address Collections together.

• Cross-references make it easy for you to link data in this collection with data from other OS NGD collections.

Coverage

Great Britain.

Default coordinate reference system

British National Grid (EPSG: 27700).

Temporal filtering

The earliest date on which you can request a one-off snapshot of a date in the past for data in this collection is noted at the top of the individual feature type pages.

Supply formats

GeoPackage or CSV (comma-separated values).

Supply mechanism

GB Address data can be accessed through the OS Data Hub via OS Select+Build, the bespoke OS NGD download service. It can't be accessed through OS NGD API – Features or OS NGD API – Tiles.

Using our data

• Included in the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) – therefore, it's free at point of use for Public Sector organisations.

• Available to OS Partners for commercial resell in your solutions.