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General:

1. Pan London Admissions Project Takes NLPG Licence2. NLPG Commercial Sales3. PoI Task Force Report4. Conservatives Call for More Open Access to Public Data5. Govt Minister Calls for Greater Efficiency from Councils6. Staffs First County with NLPG based Information System7. Annual Exemplar Awards8. ERO Expert Panel9. Free Validation for the CORE Project10. CORE Matching

11. Unitary Boundary Deadline Delayed12. Inspire13. Defra UK SDI Spring Workshop Programme14. National datasets at GSDI 1115. LB Harrow is Looking for an LLPG Assistant16. Luton BC is Seeking a Geospatial Technician17. Spelthorne is Looking for a System Support & Maintenance

Officer

NLPG:

1. NLPG Technical Enhancements2. NLPG Health Check Exceptions

NSG:

1. NSG Technical Enhancements2. NSG Uploads3. DTF7.14. EToN 5

5. NSG Ftp6. Regional Meetings

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[General]**1. Pan London Admissions Project Takes NLPG Licence**The London Borough of Brent has recently facilitated an England

wide NLPG provisionfor the e-Admissions system. This has been arranged with Brent

acting as a leadbody and providing a contractor licence for usage of the NLPG.

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more about the project at [1]www.eadmissions.org.uk. Whilst theservice is limitedto School Admissions in the London area, England wide data will

be used to identifychildren's addresses if those children are applying from outside

London.

[1] http://www.eadmissions.org.uk

**2. NLPG Commercial Sales**A new wiki has been created on the MSA and Intelligent

Addressing [1]Community ofPractice sites detailing all commercial sales of the NLPG to

date. This is tolet you know who you are able to share NLPG data/derived data

with. This will bekept up to date on both sites.

NLPG pricing details can be found [2]here. The largest

proportion of this priceis returned to Ordnance Survey for the use of Address Point

derived data in thehistoric creation of the gazetteer. The remaining revenue is

split between localgovernment and Intelligent Addressing for their investment in

the infrastructureof the gazetteer. LGIH will be consulting on the use of the

revenue collected for

local government as it establishes the level of sales over the2009/10 financialyear.

If you know of other similar organisations which would benefit

from an annual licenceto the NLPG, for your and/or their business benefit, please put

them in touch withNick Turner, at Intelligent Addressing, email

[3][email protected],tel 020 7747 3500.

The following organisations currently have annual NLPG licence:Mid Essex Primary Care Trust: East of England GORGB Group on behalf of BBC TV Licensing: England Wales data

[1] http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/welcome.do[2] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1209571318788.pdf[3] mailto:[email protected]

**3. PoI Task Force Report**Richard Allan, [1]Power of Information Task Force Chair, has

said that the betaversion of the Task force Report had attracted several hundred

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have been working through, as they drafted the final version,which they plannedto make public in the final week of February.

"Perhaps not surprisingly the section on geospatial data has

attracted the most

discussion with over 30 comments registered", commented MrAllan. "A number ofthese have asked for more emphasis to be placed on access to

address and postcodedata and others have picked up the issue of derived data. On

the derived dataissue the guidance sent to local authorities about the

incompatibility of OS andGoogle Maps licenses is very instructive. This reinforces

strongly the view thatthere is a problem we must urgently address if a public body

cannot plot the locationof public services on a map and then display this on commonly

used platforms likeGoogle Maps", he added.

APPSI welcomed the opportunity to respond to the consultation

report. Their [2]reportwas a majority report not agreed by all members. The Trading

Fund representativeon the Panel was not able to agree with or support their

submission.

[1] http://powerofinformation.wordpress.com/[2] http://www.appsi.gov.uk/ct.ashx?id=c0573762-b319-4d21-8b99-7068e163faf8&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.appsi.gov.uk%2fcontent%2fbinary%2f16.02.09-APPSI-Response-to-Draft-POI-Taskforce-Report.pdf

**4. Conservatives Call for More Open Access to Public Data**At the Free Our Data debate - see [1]debate report - hosted by

the Policy Exchangeon February 10th Adam Afriyie, the Conservative shadow skills

Minister, called

on the government to publish the Trading Fund Assessment inorder to "ensure thatgovernment data policies help rather than hinder economic

growth". There werearound 50 attendees at the meeting and in the discussion session

it was clear thatdelegates felt that the current environment was unsustainable

and detracting fromnew and innovative products and service being developed.

The panel consisted of Charles Arthur (Guardian), Ed Parsons

(Google), Adam Afriyie(MP), Shane O'Neil (APPSI) and Steven Feldman (consultant). It

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debate has moved on considerably and with increasing pace overthe past year. Allthe panel members to a greater or lesser extent said that the

current restrictionson access to PSI in general and OS's data in particular, have to

be changed.

[1] http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/

**5. Govt Minister Calls for Greater Efficiency from Councils**In the current economy local authorities need to deliver vital

services even moreefficiently - and the [1]Roots Review has shown millions more

can be saved throughimproved procurement, according to John Healey the Local

Government Minister.

The Review makes a series of recommendations to help councilsgenerate more efficientprocurement processes. In particular it identifies strengthened

Regional Improvementand Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) as a key way to improve

practical procurementadvice and the 'best buy' information available.

[1]http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/rootsreview

**6. Staffs First County with NLPG based Information System**The new system supporting internal processes and decision making

across all tiersof the County has been introduced by Staffs CC. The new [1]web

based public informationand service delivery system is the first of its kind for a

County using the intelligenceoffered by the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG).

See full story [2]here.

[1] http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/localview/[2] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1235391098189.pdf

**7. Annual Exemplar Awards**Final details for the NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards which are to

be held on November25-26th 2009 at Victoria Park Plaza, London, are still being

organised, but if youare interested in exhibiting at this event, (which was sold out

last year) or would

like further details, please email [1]Gayle Gander, Head ofMarketing, at IntelligentAddressing.


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The NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards are held annually to celebrate

the hard work oflocal authorities in maintaining the NLPG and NSG to such high

standards, and toshowcase the benefits that can be gained by sharing this

information. The eventis free to all signatories of the Mapping Services Agreement(MSA).Full details of the event will be available online in the coming

months at [2]www.thensg.org.ukand [3]www.nlpg.org.uk.

[1] mailto:[email protected][2] http://www.thensg.org.uk[3] http://www.nlpg.org.uk

**8. ERO Expert Panel**Following on from the user requirements workshops, the MoJ have

established an EROexpert panel to help them follow up any outstanding issues and

queries, and to providefeedback on the CORE service model as this develops. The first

expert panel meetingwas held on January 21st and provided the CORE team the chance

to follow up on outstandingconcerns and queries and the EROs who attended the opportunity

to voice their feedbackand raise any prevalent issues.

The panel also provided valuable insights that have helped

develop policy on theCORE Keeper. The expert panel members are now formally reviewing

the new CORE servicemodel and other relevant documentation, which represents the new

system requirements.Once the revised draft of the CORE Service Model is agreed, the

CORE Project team

will use the reviewed model as the basis for the high levelstatement of requirements,which is to be completed by March 2009.

The next project board meeting is planned for March, when it

will be reviewing thestatement of user requirements and cost/benefit analysis.

If you have general enquiries please contact the CORE mailbox

[1][email protected]

[1] mailto:[email protected]

**9. Free Validation for the CORE Project**


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Intelligent Addressing trialled this service for the AEA AGM,Conference and Exhibitionin Brighton on 8th to 11th February 2009. It is aimed at local

authorities who havefinished matching their Register of Electors to the LLPG and

wish to check the validity

of their work.Having received some good results IA would now like to test a

larger sample andwe are therefore offering this service free to the first 30

local authorities thatsend us data. The closing date for sending data is March 31st

2009.The service will analyse matches between your Register of

Electors and the NLPG,

and will, amongst other tests. It will:check that all UPRNs that are matched to RoE records exist in

the NLPG;check whether any of the UPRNs relate to properties classified

as non-residential;check whether any of the UPRNs relate to properties that are

historic or rejected;check whether there are any UPRNs that are duplicated in the RoE

data;check whether any of the UPRNs are located outside the local

authority area;

check whether any of the ELR xrefs are duplicated.Apart from giving authorities this feedback IA is interested in

the results to assesswhether there are any changes that should be considered to help

the data standardisationprocess, particularly in the matching of data and the resolution

of issues. Thefindings will be shared with the MoJ.

If you wish to take advantage of this free service we will

require a file containingthe Register of Electors unique reference and the NLPG UPRN that

is matched to thatunique reference. The file can also include the address elements

from the RoE asan optional extra. Please send this file to [1]core@intelligent-

addressing.co.uk.In return for data we will send all participating local

authorities a report viaemail. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to

contact Catherine Teare

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**10. CORE Matching**The IA Special Projects Team has now received 119 files and has

returned reportson 114 of them using IA's combined software and manual matching

processes. Over

7.3 million records have been processed with an average matchrate of 97.19%. IAhas matched nearly half of the authorities in the Yorkshire and

Humberside Regionwhich has gained a match rate of 98%. Any local authorities

interested in usingIA for their CORE data matching should contact Catherine Teare

on 020 7747 3500or [1][email protected].

We would like to take this opportunity to remind authorities

that have still notsubmitted their claims forms for the grants that these have to

be submitted by March31st 2009; LLPG custodians are encouraged to ensure that their

EROs are making thenecessary submission. This also applies to the Authorities

involved in the formationof new unitary authorities on April 1st 2009. The submissions

must be made by theDistricts this year as no forms will be signed off for the

unitaries after April

1st.The process is outlined on the MoJ's website at:

[2]www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/electoral-data-standards.htm.Specific queries about the process should be made to: Alison

Franco Tel: 020 33343832 email: [3][email protected].

[1] mailto:[email protected][2] http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/electoral-data-standards.htm


**11. Unitary Boundary Deadline Delayed**The government has pushed back the deadline for the Boundary

Committee to decideon the structures of new unitary councils in Devon, Norfolk and

Suffolk.The committee had been due to deliver its verdict by last

Friday. However, in thewake of East Devon DC appealing against a high court ruling

backing Devon's bidto become a single county unitary, the Department for

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told LGCplus, the Local Government Chronicle, that the deadlinehad been extendedto July 15th 2009.

See [1]www.lgcplus.com for more information.

In other areas the process of migrating to towards the newUnitary Status Councilsby April 1st 2009 is proving very busy for all concerned and

LGIH have employedPeter Hood Consultancy to co-ordinate the wide range of issues

incurred by the transition.Peter was previously employed at Basingstoke & Deane Borough

Council for over 21years, the last six years as ALO and LLPG custodian and was also

involved in the

organisational aspect of the NLPG South East region.In order to successfully aggregate the District gazetteers into

a single gazetteer,each custodian is required to ensure their respective gazetteer

is error free, anyduplications between adjacent districts resolved and thought

given to ensure linksto 3rd party software retained. When the aggregated gazetteers

are ready, IntelligentAddressing will program time to ensure that all traces of the

old district gazetteersare removed from the NLPG hub prior to loading a new Unitary

gazetteer.

[1]http://www.lgcplus.com/News/2009/02/unitary_boundary_deadline_delayed.html

**12. Inspire**In last month's Ezine we published an article reporting that

LGIH/LGA were working

with IA and a small group of very active local authorities toexamine the EuropeanInspire team's [1] data specifications on behalf of local

government. The finalreport has now been written and submitted. If you are

interested in viewing this,please email [2][email protected]

[1] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/implementingRulesDocs_ds.cfm[2] mailto:[email protected]

**13. Defra UK SDI Spring Workshop Programme**Official outreach events in support of INSPIRE and UK SDI. These

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timed to coincide with the INSPIRE Transposition Consultationand will provisionallycover the following areas:

INSPIRE and the UK Location StrategyLegal Process; Transposition Consultation Document

INSPIRE Conceptual Design and Implementation RulesBreakout sessions and feedback collationThe objectives are to gain feedback and input into the INSPIRE

Consultation Documentsupporting the programme transposition; to present and gain

feedback on ConceptualDesign and Implementation elements of the programme and to

continue to build awarenessand understanding of INSPIRE and the aspirations of UK SDI.

The workshops are being logistically managed by AGI with thecontent delivered bythe Defra UK SDI Programme Team.

This is an opportunity to engage directly with the UK SDI

Programme Team and AGIwelcome attendees at the following venues and dates:

April 28th 2009: Belfast, Holiday InnApril 30th 2009: London, School of Economic ScienceMay 6th 2009: Edinburgh, Barcelo Carlton Hotel

May 7th 2009: Manchester, Thistle HotelMay 12th 2009: Cardiff, Barcelo Angel Hotel

Further information from: [1] The AGI.

[1] http://www.agi.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_310328

**14. National datasets at GSDI 11**A paper put forward by IDeA and IA has been accepted for

presentation at GSDI 11

in Rotterdam on June 15-19th 2009.This conference incorporates jointly and separately organized

sessions of the EleventhInternational Conference of the [1]GSDI Association, the Third

INSPIRE Conference,and a national conference on Dutch SDI Results and Challenges.

The organizers ofthe event said "The quality of submissions was very high and

less than half of thesubmissions were selected by the review panel for speaking slots

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The presentation is called 'Achieving a national infrastructurefor addresses andstreets across government in England and Wales using standards

and sound informationmanagement principles' will be presented by Steve Brandwood.

[1] http://www.gsdi.org/

**15. LB Harrow is Looking for an LLPG Assistant**LB Harrow are currently looking for a suitably experienced

person to assist in themaintenance and support of the Council's Local Land & Property

Gazetteer (LLPG).We want somebody who can assist the LLPG Custodian in helping to

improve the qualityof our Gazetteer. There are a large number of queries and

duplicate records thatneed to be resolved and the postholder will have particular

responsibility for dealingwith these in order to improve the quality of Harrow's Gazetteer

in advance of the2011 Census. You will be required to undertake mainly desk-based

research in orderto resolve these anomalies, but some site inspections may also

be necessary. Youwill be using a number of different IT systems to undertake this

work, including

extensive use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS).Closing date: 20th March 2009. Salary 21,099 - 22,977 pa for

a 1 year contract.You will need to ensure you hold a valid work permit for this

position before applying.Interviews to be held in the week commencing 30th March. Apply

online at [1]www.harrow.gov.ukor email your name and address to [email protected]

quoting reference

PS LL1782. Alternatively, please call 020 8424 1983, fax 0118952 0108 or writeto Harrow Recruitment Team, First Floor, 60 St Mary's Butts,

Reading, Berkshire,RG1 2LG.

[1] http://poweredby.jobsgopublic.com/harrow/index.cfm?fuseaction=Job.Display&StartRow=1&keywords=&SearchType=ListAll&btnSubmit=y&job_id=2318267&source=s&currentJobRow=1

**16. Luton BC is Seeking a Geospatial Technician**

Luton Borough Council has created a team of specialists who aredeveloping and implementinga corporate knowledge base of people, property and other GIS


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data across the wholethe council. It is seeking a Geospatial Technician to play a

key role in the ongoingdevelopment and maintenance of the enterprise spatial database

and its associatedGIS technologies, along with the activities required to manage

and use the corporategeospatial datasets. Experience in capturing, maintaining andusing GIS data isessential; experience in maintaining a Local Land and Property

Gazetteer (LLPG)would be an advantage.

Ref: 09/0047. Salary: 20,591 - 22,664 p.a. Location: Town

Hall, Luton. ApplicationClosing Date: 13/03/2009

For more details see [1]http://jobs.luton.gov.uk or please callAnn Pegrum on 01582547013 if you would like an informal discussion about this

position.

[1] http://jobs.luton.gov.uk/JobDetails.aspx/973/Geospatial_Technician?SminimumSalary=0&Smax

**17. Spelthorne is Looking for a System Support & MaintenanceOfficer**Spelthorne Borough Council is looking for a System Support and

Maintenance Officer,to assist staff in the use and development of their property

based database systems,GIS (Geographic Information System) and other related systems.

The successful applicantwill be responsible for the textual and spatial capture of

information vital tothe successful running of our property based services, such as

the planning applicationservice and land searches, as well as providing application

(including Microsoft

Access) support and training to staff.Working with the GIS Officer, the successful applicant will also

provide supportto this role, resolving technical queries with data owners and

users, dealing withexisting datasets and the provision of ad-hoc mapping services,

amongst other relatedduties.

In return we can offer excellent conditions of service with a

benefits package thatincludes flexible working hours, pension scheme, free car

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days paid leave per year. Salary 22,787 - 27,526 per annum.Closing date: Friday 20th March (3pm) Interview date: Friday 3rd

AprilFull information and an application form are available at

[1]www.surreyjobs.infoor at [2]www.spelthorne.gov.uk alternatively please contactRecruitment Serviceson 01784 444263 (24 hour answerphone) quoting reference number

SD248.Unfortunately we are unable to reply to all candidates. If we

have not contactedyou within 3 weeks of the closing date then your application has

been unsuccessful.

CVs will only be accepted in support of a completed applicationform.

[1] http://www.surreyjobs.info[2] http://www.spelthorne.gov.uk

[NLPG]**1. NLPG Technical Enhancements**IA is undertaking some enhancements to its technical

infrastructure on the eveningof Friday 27th March 2009, which will mean the IP addresses of

our NLPG serverswill change. Whilst the impact on the services IA provide to

your organisationwill be minimal it may require your IT department making a small

configuration changeto allow you to continue to access the NLPG FTP server at a new

address.Details of these changes, which will affect users of the ftp

server, will be emailedto users in the second half of March.

**2. NLPG Health Check Exceptions**Following a successful trial in two regions, Health Check

Exceptions can now besubmitted by all authorities. This means that records can be

excluded from specificHealth Check Warnings where there is a genuine exception to the

rule. Guidance on

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to the two Warningsset out in the guidance document will be accepted at the moment.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1235731833444.pdf

[NSG]**1. NSG Technical Enhancements**Following a successful trial in two regions, Health Check

Exceptions can now besubmitted by all authorities. This means that records can be

excluded from specificHealth Check Warnings where there is a genuine exception to the

rule. Guidance onhow to submit these records is available in the document 'Health

Check Exceptions'

available to download from the[1] NLPG website. Only Exceptionsto the two Warningsset out in the guidance document will be accepted at the moment.

[1] http://www.nlpg.org.uk

**2. NSG Uploads**February has seen yet another increase in the number of

authorities that have successfullysubmitted to the NSG hub. Unfortunately still nearly a third of

NSG creating authorities

are not able to submit on a monthly basis. The NSG team wouldurge all of you toupload your gazetteers in March. In light of the forthcoming

changes to DTF 7.1it is imperative not to have legacy data remaining in the Hub.

If you require anyassistance with your upload during this month please contact the

Helpdesk in thefirst instance on [1][email protected] or

call 0207 747 3502.


**3. DTF7.1**As you are all aware, the NSG is moving towards BS7666:2006 from

March 2nd 2009with a view of publishing in the new DTF 7.1 format for April

Downloads. The teamat IA are working very hard to ensure the ease of transition for

all authorities.Please refer to the [1]NSG website for further information in

particular the following

documents:LGIH EToN 5.01 Implementation LetterNational Street Gazetteer Data Entry Conventions Document (DEC-


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NSG)National Street Gazetteer DTF 7.1 SpecificationNew Unitary Authority LSG Transition Plan

Further documentation and instructions will be sent to all LSG

Custodians shortly.

[1] http://www.thensg.org.uk/iansg/link.htm?id=2008

**4. EToN 5**EToN 5.0 came into effect from January 12th 2009. Thanks to all

of you that managedto submit your EToN 5.0 ODD files. If you are having problems

submitting an EToN5.0 file or would like the NSG team to test the data, please

submit the EToN 5

ODD file with your full LSG submission via the [1]NSG website.

[1] http://www.thensg.org.uk

**5. NSG Ftp**ALOs and NSG Custodians should now have access to the NSG Ftp

Site. We hope youare finding this useful. Currently your site should have your

February Health Checks,along with your LSG Improvement Schedule and Updated mapping for

January's submissions.

**6. Regional Meetings**Regional Meetings are being planned at the moment. Dates will be

announced by yourregional chairs.

Current Scheduled Meetings:

South West - March 13thLondon - March 18th

South East - TBCNorth East - TBCYorkshire & Humberside Region - TBCWest Midlands Region -TBCNorth West - TBCEast of England - TBCWales - TBC

Regional Meetings that have already taken place:

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