042. John Adam St Gang: Intelligent Addressing; Ezine April 2009

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General:

1. Doubt Over Future Strategy for OS2. NLPG Commercial Resellers3. NLPG Provides the Key to Understanding Local NHS Trends4. Using the NLPG at the Local Level5. Cash Cut Call for 'Inefficient' Councils6. Rowntree Report Identifies Good and Bad Databases7. BS7666 (NLPG) & INSPIRE8. APPSI Seeks Assurances on New PAF licencing9. EROs required to use LLPGs to Maintain Addresses10. CORE Data Matching

11. Validation for the CORE Project12. APPSI Appoints New Members

NLPG:

1. NLPG Mobilises FiReControl2. FTP IP Address Changes3. Chair of the LLPG Custodians Chairs Group

NSG:

1. New National Street Gazetteer Published2. April DTF 7.1 Submission Month3. Submitting DTF 7.14. Health Checks and Comparison Reports5. Regional Meetings

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[General]**1. Doubt Over Future Strategy for OS**Following the Budget the Government announced a new business

strategy for OrdnanceSurvey as part of its [1]"Operational Efficiency Programme"

Report. The reportrecognises that OS needs to be more customer focused and

commercially driven, increasecompetition and to significantly enhance the ease of access to

geographical dataand services for both commercial and non-commercial use.

However, The Guardian, [2]www.freeourdata.org.uk, accused the

Government of ducking


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the issue, playing more to the rescue of the banks and financialinstitutions ratherthan stimulating commercial enterprises and encouraging

entrepreneurship.Meanwhile the [3]Locus Association, which exists to raise

awareness of, and promotethe development of, a healthy and competitive private sector inrelation to PSI,has expressed strong disappointment that the government appears

to have largelyignored the independent advice it has received over many years

in relation to OrdnanceSurvey's business model. Locus again expresses its concern that

the approach willcontinue to fail to deliver fair competition in the PSI

marketplace.

OS's strategy claims to balance the requirement for OS tomaintain the highest qualitystandards with the need to significantly enhance ease of access

to geographic dataand services for both commercial and non-commercial use. It

seeks to equip OrdnanceSurvey to thrive in and better support competition and

innovation in a wider geographicalinformation market that is being transformed by advances in

technology, and it claims

that this is a significant and ambitious programme of changewith key milestonesfor delivery in 6 and 12 months' time and beyond. The

Shareholder Executive, OPSIand OFT will regularly be reviewing progress.

The new strategy which has been published on the OS website

[4]http://strategy.ordnancesurvey.co.ukhas already attracted a considerable amount of sceptical

comment. Comments can bemade on four of the five goals.

[1] http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/vfm_operational_efficiency.htm[2] http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/index.php[3] http://locusassociation.co.uk/industry104.php[4] http://strategy.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/

**2. NLPG Commercial Resellers**Intelligent Addressing will shortly be engaging with private

sector companies tobecome 'resellers' of NLPG data. This will entitle signed up

organisations to build

solutions around the NLPG data and market them on to CentralGovernment and theprivate sector. If you know of any organisations that would


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benefit from this sortof agreement and could further the use of the NLPG, please get

in touch with NickTurner - [1][email protected]. Draft reseller

agreements areavailable on request for organisations interested in engaging

the NLPG community.

[1] mailto:[email protected]

**3. NLPG Provides the Key to Understanding Local NHS Trends**The NLPG is enabling NHS Mid Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT) to

better understandthe needs of the population it serves in order to target

resources more effectivelyand ultimately improve health provision [1](see Press Release).

NHS Mid Essex (PCT)

is one of the first organisations to take advantage of new NLPGlicensing opportunitieswhich enables this valuable national address database to be used

beyond local government.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1238580520009.pdf

**4. Using the NLPG at the Local Level**Mayhew Harper Associates is a small research consultancy that

specializes in theuse of administrative data to support local authorities, health

services and otherproviders of services in an area. It has developed techniques

for joining up dataand analyzing it in ways that provide helpful insights that

assist local areas toimprove the delivery of services, by understanding the needs of

their populationsand by using a range of techniques such as risk analysis and

GIS.

Mayhew Harper has undertaken a number of projects using LLPGs as

an a key datasetfor analysis. Case studies on these projects can be seen

[1]here. Projects of particularinterest include:

[2]Infant mortality, low birth weight and teenage motherhood inBirmingham[3]Smoking cessation success - Doncaster[4]Access to Social Services by older people- Doncaster[5]Access to libraries - Doncaster[6]Modelling Deprivation at Local Level - Doncaster MBC and

Doncaster PCT[7]Emergency hospital admissions - Doncaster[8]Special Educational Needs - Doncaster


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[9]Domestic Violence - London Borough of Brent[10]Youth Offending - Camden Primary Care Trust[11]Chronic Disease - Islington Primary Care Trust[12]Making neighbourhood knowledge accessible - London Borough

of Tower Hamlets

[1] http://nkm.org.uk/case_studies.html[2] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/birminghaminfantmortality.pdf[3] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/doncastersmokingcessation.pdf[4] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/doncastersocialservices.pdf[5] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/doncasterlibraries.pdf[6] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/doncasterdeprivation.pdf[7] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/doncasteremergencyadmissions.pdf[8] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/doncasterSEN.pdf[9] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/brentdomviolence.pdf[10] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/camdenyouthoffending.pdf[11] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/islingtonchronicdisease.pdf

[12] http://www.nkm.org.uk/flyers/towerhamletsknowledgeaccess.pdf

**5. Cash Cut Call for 'Inefficient' Councils**Martin Read, former chief executive of Logica, has told the

[1]Financial Times thathis government review on efficiency had concluded that about

4bn, from the estimated18bn cost of back-office functions, could be saved across the

public sector overthe next three years, with another 3.2bn saving on other IT

projects that cost

about 16bn. His review recommended publication of "regular,consistent, auditableand transparent data" on the costs across the public sector.

He said that public pressure could be placed on poorly

performing organisations,but if they failed to act, "We would expect those organisations

spending considerablymore than other people to have the money taken away from them".

[2]www.lgcplus.com

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f79412f6-2dee-11de-9eba-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1[2]http://www.lgcplus.com/News/2009/04/cash_cut_call_for_inefficient_councils.html

**6. Rowntree Report Identifies Good and Bad Databases**A new Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust report states that a quarter

of all governmentdatabases are almost certainly illegal under human rights or

data protection law

and should be scrapped or redesigned, while the remaining 29databases have significantproblems and should be subject to an independent review.


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But the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) received a

clean bill of healthby the report. It was one of only six government databases given

a 'green light'in terms of privacy impact.

A press release from the NLPG team can be seen [1]here. Formore information onthe report see [2]www.jrrt.org.uk/uploads/database-state.pdf.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1241001338968.pdf[2] http://www.jrrt.org.uk/uploads/database-state.pdf

**7. BS7666 (NLPG) & INSPIRE**There appears to be some confusion over the relationship between

BS7666 (and its

implementation in the NLPG) and the INSPIRE addressspecification. To clarify thiswe have put together two short paragraphs (see below) to put

clear water betweenthe two and hopefully allay fears and misunderstandings.

The purpose of BS7666 Part 2 and its implementation in the NLPG

is to provide astandardised framework on which to hang a number of property

attributes, includingthe address, to support, for instance Council Tax, Elections

(CORE), Planning, RefuseCollection, FRS, Policing, Education, Census, etc.

Other European countries may already have similar standards, or

are devising these,to suit their own requirements.

The purpose of the INSPIRE specification is to enable the EU

sovereign states toexchange address information across borders, while maintaining

their equivalents

of our BS7666 - if they have a national standard.To summarise: address data held within the NLPG can be extracted

as a subset andtransferred in the INSPIRE format but the NLPG's underlying

property framework andassociated attribute information cannot be included.

**8. APPSI Seeks Assurances on New PAF licencing**Professor David Rhind, chair of the Advisory Panel on Public

Sector Information(APPSI) has [1]written to Royal Mail expressing his fears that

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and ambiguous licensing will interfere with long-established useof a dataset whichhas become part of the national data infrastructure".

He was concerned that these new licences would have unintended

consequences not

only for the use of addresses but also postcodes and asked fora demonstrationthat this danger is recognised and will be avoided.

[1]http://www.appsi.gov.uk/2009/03/26/APPSIsLetterToRoyalMailRePostalAddressFileLicenceConsultation

**9. EROs required to use LLPGs to Maintain Addresses**The Electoral Commission has published its first assessment of

EROs' performance

against a series of standards published in July of last year.In the conclusionsit notes that information from council tax departments used to

verify and validatedata is commonly cited as a record used to meet Standard 1 and

using the Local Landand Property Gazetteer (LLPG) to maintain the property database

for Standard 2.A number of EROs questioned the benefit of using Royal Mail as a

source to meet

Standard 2, other than for checking post codes, and said thatthe use of the LandRegistry did not add value, particularly as it is a service that

would require additionalfinancial resources. Additionally, some authorities have stated

that they have ahigh matching percentage with the LLPG and therefore did not see

the merit in usingexternal sources.

The full document and analysis of the Electoral Registration

Officers' performancecan be found through

[1]www.electoralcommission.org.uk/performance-standards

[1] http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/performance-standards

**10. CORE Data Matching**The IA Special Projects Team has now received 131 files and has

returned reportson 128 of them using IA's combined software and manual matching

processes. Over

8 million records have been processed with an average match rateof 97.33%. IA hasmatched over half of the authorities in the Yorkshire and


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Humberside Region whichhas gained a match rate of 98.15%.

Any local authorities interested in using IA for their CORE data

matching shouldcontact Catherine Teare on 020 7747 3500 or [1]core@intelligent-

addressing.co.uk.The service costs 1,806 plus VAT and the average turnaroundtime is 5-10 workingdays. We will provide you with a file of RoE/LLPG matches,

unmatched records anda report detailing the results of the matching process.

Intelligent Addressing (IA) is helping EROs in many Local

Authorities to bring theirelectoral data up to the required standard. This involves a

five-stage process which:

checks data integrityconverts it to BS7666 formatmatches it to the NLPGprovides a detailed report suggesting how each authority should

proceedreturns anomalies that must be resolved at the local level in

conjunction with theauthoritiy's LLPG custodian.


**11. Validation for the CORE Project**A free "CORE Validation Process" for local authorities who have

finished matchingtheir Register of Electors to the Local Land and Property

Gazetteer (LLPG) is availablefrom IA.

The service will analyse matches between your Register ofElectors (RoE) and theNational Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), and will, amongst

other tests: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 or do

not exist in the NLPG;check whether any of the RoE xrefs are duplicated.


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If you wish to take advantage of this free service we willrequire 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 as

an optional extra. Please send this file to [1][email protected] return we will send all participating local authorities the

results via email.If you wish to receive a full, detailed report there will be an

admin charge of150.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact

Catherine Teare on 0207747 3500.


**12. APPSI Appoints New Members**Michael Wills MP, Minister of State for Justice, [1]announced

at the end of March,the appointment of four new members to the Advisory Panel on

Public Sector Information(APPSI).

The four new members of APPSI are: Prabhat Vaze, Bill Oates,

David Lammey, and MichaelJennings, who has been appointed to represent Local Government

interests for a periodofthree years.

[1] http://www.opsi.gov.uk/

[NLPG]

**1. NLPG Mobilises FiReControl**As previously reported, the NLPG is to be used to underpin the

generation of nineRegional Command and Control Centres for the fire service in

England via the FiReControlproject. FiReControl is working in partnership with local

authorities, led by IDeA,and Intelligent Addressing, the national custodian for the NLPG,

to create engagementbetween local authorities and fire and rescue services.

In order to describe how the NLPG will be used to underpin theproject, a leaflet- "Using the NLPG to mobilise FiReControl" has been published


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jointly by IDeA,CLG and IA. A copy can be found [1]here. If you would like a

hard copy, pleasecontact [2][email protected].(Two case studies

on how Fire andRescue Services are using the data and collaborating with LLPG

custodians are beingprepared for publication.)Representatives from FiReControl plan to attend forthcoming

Regional Custodian Groupmeetings in order to provide information on the project and

answer any questionswhich arise.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1240844217572.pdf[2] mailto:[email protected]

**2. FTP IP Address Changes**Intelligent Addressing changed the NLPG/NSG FTP IP address ( to:

195.171.25.164)for the NLPG server on Friday April 24th 2009. However for a

period of 4 weeks toFriday May 22nd 2009 access will still be available on the old

address (195.171.101.179).For further details see last month's Ezine or if you have any

questions please contact

the helpdesk on 020 7747 3502 or email [1][email protected].


**3. Chair of the LLPG Custodians Chairs Group**David Heyes, the Chair of the LLPG Custodians Chairs Group, has

stood down. Hiscontributions, both as Chair, and in representing all the LLPG

Custodians and theproject have been much appreciated. The process is in place for

finding his replacement.

Pat Porter, Regional Chair for the South East has stood down andher contributionshave also been greatly appreciated. Cathy Coehlo, from Oxford

City Council, hastaken over the role for the South East together with Pauline

Clifford, Reigate andBanstead, as the deputy chair for the South East.


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[NSG]**1. New National Street Gazetteer Published**The NSG, the primary database for the co-ordination of work

taking place on streetswithin England and Wales has been updated and is available in

the new DTF 7.1 format

in compliance with BS7666:2006. As well as enabling closeralignment with the NationalLand and Property Gazetteer, the country's definitive list of

property addresses,the new format enables Highways Authorities to record heights,

weights and widthrestrictions, and directions (one way or two way) against

individual roads and streets.Improving both the richness of the data held in the NSG and the

data checking routineswill enable those licensed to carry out work on the highways to

consult and co-ordinatemore effectively, reducing inconvenience and congestion.

**2. April DTF 7.1 Submission Month**We would like to extend an apology to the NSG community for all

the issues thathave been experienced with the NSG hub as a result of the

migration to DTF 7.1.We appreciate your patience in this difficult transition period.

Thanks to all the

authorities that were able to make a DTF 7.1 submission thismonth.

**3. Submitting DTF 7.1**If you are not able to submit in the new DTF 7.1 format, please

contact [1]Baz Lokat,the NSG Coordinator with an estimation of when you think you

will be able to. Weunderstand that for many of you this is down to receiving

suitable software but

this information gives an indication of the following:When a software vendor is intending to release appropriate

LSG/ASD softwareWhen the number of validations are expected to increase at the

hub.When we can expect to realistically reintroduce the 'submission

by 10th workingday rule'Whether your authority requires assistance in the introduction

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**4. Health Checks and Comparison Reports**The generation of Health Checks and comparison reports has been

temporarily suspended.We will look to reintroduce these Health checks over the next

couple of months.If you have ideas for Health Checks please contact your Regional

Chair in the firstinstance.

**5. Regional Meetings**Wales June 22nd 2009North West July 1st 2009

For more information on Regional Meetings please contact yourRegional Chair.

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