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General:

1. NLPG NSG Exemplar Awards; the NLPG Ten Years On2. Underpinning Transformational Government Conference -

November 20093. NLPG Underpins Pan-London eAdmissions Service for Schools4. Understanding Flood Risk at a Sub Postcode Level5. Derived Data and OS6. OPSI Report7. Website Changes8. CORE Data Matching - 4 Months until Deadline!9. Validation for the CORE Project

10. VOA - All Local Authorities now Exceed 90% Ctax Match11. IA Seeks Quality Assurance Analyst

1. New Members of the Regional LLPG Custodians Group

NSG:

1. NSG Uploads2. Converted Data Format3. Eton 5

4. Training5. NSG Meetings

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[General]**1. NLPG NSG Exemplar Awards; the NLPG Ten Years On**On this 10 year anniversary of the NLPG, IDeA and Intelligent

Addressing would liketo invite applications to the 2009 National Land and Property

Gazetteer (NLPG) andNational Street Gazetteer (NSG) awards. The awards recognise the

innovation, effort,commitment and achievement of local authorities, police and fire

within the creation,maintenance and utilisation of the gazetteers.

The awards will be presented at a one-day conference

'Underpinning TransformationalGovernment' on 26th November at the Victoria Park Plaza hotel in

Central London.

The Award categories for this year have been expanded and a few

new ones introduced


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to give a more light hearted take on the Awards.

The closing date for Award entries is Friday 23rd October 2009.The Awards brochurecan be seen [1]here. Entry forms will be made available on

the NLPG and NSG websitesduring August.Any questions or queries about the awards process should be

directed to [2][email protected].

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1248877274496.pdf[2] mailto:[email protected]

**2. Underpinning Transformational Government Conference -November 2009**

The NLPG is ten years old and this years annual NLPG NSGUnderpinning TransformationalGovernment conference is set to celebrate the achievements of

local authorities,and the receiving authorities in creating and using the NPLG and

its sister projectthe NSG.

The event starts with a complementary drinks reception in the

evening of 25st November,which will take place at Tiger Tiger in Haymarket, Central

London. The conferenceand exhibition then takes place on November 26th at the Victoria

Park Plaza Hotel.The morning session will have a strategic focus with

presentations from senior localgovernment policy experts. The 2009 NLPG and NSG Exemplar

Awards will be presentedbefore lunch.

The Awards showcase best practice and recognise the innovation,

effort, commitmentand achievement of the local government community, including the

police and fireauthorities, in the creation, maintenance and utilization of the

NLPG and NSG.After lunch, the conference will continue with MasterClass

presentations from ESRI(UK), QAS Experian and Aligned Assets, Gold Sponsors at the

event.

The remainder of the afternoon will split into three streams;Business Savings,Infrastructure and National Projects, each chaired by experts in


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their own field.A full programme can be seen [1]here.

Running alongside the conference is an exhibition with suppliers

whose key target

markets include local government and the emergency services.

The conference is free to all signatories of the MappingServices Agreement.The charge for commercial end-users of the NLPG is 230 + VAT

and the charge forStatutory Undertakers is 99 + VAT.

Registration is now open [2]here.

Media partners for the conference include the BAPCO Journal,

Municipal Journal andSurveyor, so watch out for articles promoting the event!

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Gayle

Gander, [3][email protected] Laura Brown [4][email protected] on 020

7747 3500.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1248876821559.pdf

[2] http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tfAtSzAAoH_2bw3_2f28IAAtyw_3d_3d[3] mailto:[email protected][4] mailto:[email protected]

**3. NLPG Underpins Pan-London eAdmissions Service forSchools**The NLPG will provide the vital address intelligence behind the

updated eAdmissionsservice for schools across London provided by the London Grid

for Learning Trust

(LGfL). The LGfL manages this public-facing school admissionsservice on behalfof the 33 London local authorities, and Surrey County Council.

The service, whichhad previously attracted increasing numbers of parents as the

preferred means ofsecuring information, selecting schools, ordering preferences

and making an on-lineapplication, is scheduled to go live in September 2009.

For more information see the [1]Press Release

[1] http://www.nlpg.org.uk/nlpg/link.htm?nwid=118


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**4. Understanding Flood Risk at a Sub Postcode Level**GeoConnexion UK recently published an on-line supplement to the

magazine GeoRiskand included an article on the NLPG. See

[1]www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/understandingfloodrisk.pdf

[1] http://www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/understandingfloodrisk.pdf

**5. Derived Data and OS**The Guardian's Free Our Data Blog has picked up further

interesting comments anddebate on 'severable improvements', derived data and the

Ordnance Survey from[1]cloudsourced which states that derived data is "the single

most stifling elementof the Ordnance Surveys licensing regime"

Meanwhile the OS is not saying who is the "internationallyrecognised expert ingeographical information and national mapping" who, OS said, had

reviewed its studyinto how it should organise and charge for its service, and who

"agreed to the analysisand conclusions". They are hiding behind the Freedom of

Information Act section40 (2) (a). However they have published an 'almost' unredacted

version of their[2]'International Comparison of Geological Information Trading

Models'To follow the blog click on [3]www.freeourdata.org.uk

[1] http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/07/22/why-openspaces-and-geovation-vexes-me-so/[2]http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/aboutus/foi/docs/icgitm_redacted_final.pdf[3] http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/index.php

**6. OPSI Report**Information is the fuel that drives innovation in the knowledge

economy and OPSIwill concentrate on how to make public sector information as

widely available aspossible to support public service delivery and innovation. So

says [1] The UnitedKingdom Report on the Re-use of Public Sector Information 2009,

published on July9th 2009.

In his forward, Michael Wills, the Minister for Information,says that 'the worldis waking up to the vast potential of PSI to enrich our lives


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and our economy',and states that, 'we [The Ministry of Justice] maintain our

momentum as the potentialrewards for the UK are immense.'

[1] http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/psi-regulations/uk-report-reuse-

psi-2009.pdf

**7. Website Changes**Intelligent Addressing has upgraded the Intelligent Addressing

(www.intelligent-addressing.co.uk),National Land and Property Gazetteer (www.nlpg.org.uk) and

National Street Gazetteer(www.thensg.org.uk) websites.

Please note, your browser may have stored the old style sheets

in memory (cache).

In order to view the new style you may have to press the refreshbutton on yourbrowser window toolbar to clear your browsers memory. The

website address (url)is the same, so if you have bookmarked any of the websites home

page these willstill work. However, you may need to update bookmarks for the

other pages on thesite.

If you have difficulties accessing the sites, please do not

hesitate to contactour helpdesk who will be happy to help you (tel 0207 747 3502,

email [1][email protected]).We are happy to receive any feedback you may have on the new

style and content ofthe sites; Please send any comments to [2]lbrown@intelligent-

addressing.co.uk.

[1] mailto:[email protected][2] mailto:[email protected]

**8. CORE Data Matching - 4 Months until Deadline!**There are now only four months left until the deadline of 1st

December 2009 formatching Electoral Registration data to the NLPG.

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 integrity

converts it to BS7666 formatmatches it to the NLPGprovides a detailed report suggesting how each authority should


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proceedreturns anomalies that must be resolved at the local level.The IA Special Projects Team has now received 138 files and has

returned reportson 135 of them using IA's combined software and manual matching

processes. Over

8 million records have been processed with an average match rateof 97.44%.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.There is a charge for this and the average turnaround time is 5-

10 working days.For further information contact Catherine Teare or email

[2][email protected].

Representatives from Intelligent Addressing will be at the 5th

Annual AEA NationalOne-Day Seminar on Friday 4th September 2009 at the Newcastle

Gateshead Hilton.If you have any questions about IA's CORE data matching service

and you are attendingthe seminar, please come along to our stand and have a chat.


**9. Validation for the CORE Project**This service is aimed at local authorities who have finished

matching their Registerof Electors to the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) and

wish to check thevalidity of their work. It will analyse matches between your

Register of Electors(RoE) and the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), and,

amongst other tests,will:

check that all UPRNs that are matched to RoE records exist inthe 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 donot exist in the NLPG;

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

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whether there are any changes that should be considered to helpthe 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 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 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 the resultsvia email. If you wish to receive a full, detailed report there

will be an administrationcharge of 150. If you have any queries please do not hesitate

to contact CatherineTeare on 020 7747 3500.

[1] mailto:[email protected]

**10. VOA - All Local Authorities now Exceed 90% Ctax Match**Intelligent Addressing is pleased to announce that all local

authorities now havea VOA Council Tax match rate of over 90%.

There are also now only 14 local authorities left with a less

than 95% Council Taxmatch. There are three regions (London, Yorkshire and Humberside

and the North East)that do not have any authorities under 95% at all and four

regions with just 1 localauthority each under 95%.

The current match rates are 98.94% for Council Tax and 74.1% - a

massive increase

of 1.6% since June - for Non-Domestic Rates.All English Local Authorities now have a regional CTAX average

above 98% with sixregions over 99% (Yorkshire and Humberside, North East, West

Midlands, North West,South East and East Midlands).

We have recently received an update from the VOA which will

highlight any changesmade to their data over the past months. We will be removing

records which no longerexist from both the matched and unmatched lists and adding new

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appear on the unmatched lists this month.

**11. IA Seeks Quality Assurance Analyst**This position is offered initially on a contract basis for 6

months.

Further information is available from Quality Assurance AnalystThe deadline forapplications is 15th August 2009. Please apply only to: jobs at

Intelligent Addressing.

[NLPG]**1. New Members of the Regional LLPG Custodians Group**

As many of you will already know, we now have a new chair of theRegional ChairsLLPG custodian Group, Andrew Young (Durham County Council) and

Deputy Chair of theRegional Chairs LLPG Custodian Group, Rafe Benli (London Borough

of Hammersmithand Fulham). Andrew and Rafe were elected by the other

Regional Chairs at theLLPG GOR Chairs meeting which took place in early July. Our

thanks go to SuzanneNorton for her diligent work for chairing the Group over the

past months.

[NSG]**1. NSG Uploads**The July publication of the NSG saw 104 Authorities manage to

successfully passvalidation. Thank you for all your hard work. This month has

again continued to

see submissions rise. We understand that almost all softwarecompanies have releasedupgrades to allow submissions in the new DTF7.1 Format. We

obviously encourage everybodyto update their software at the earliest convenience to allow

submission of DTF7.1.If you are still having problems or would like any assistance

please contact theNSG Helpdesk ([1][email protected]).

If you are unable to send through a DTF 7.1 submission, please

email the NSG Coordinator([2]Baz Lokat) with an indication of when you will be able to

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**2. Converted Data Format**Data initially converted from NSG CSV to DTF 7.1 by Intelligent

Addressing is nolonger available for authorities to download from the downloadmatrix. If you wouldlike a copy of this data to see what potential errors may occur

when you upgradeyour system to DTF 7.1 please contact the NSG Helpdesk

([1][email protected]).


**3. Eton 5**

We encourage all Authorities to update their OD files on the NSGhub when changesare made. OD files should be checked with current data. If you

are unable to submitcurrent data but would like to publish a new version of the EToN

file the NSG hubcan do this under exceptional circumstances. Please in the first

instance contactthe NSG Helpdesk for assistance ([1][email protected]).

Please note that EToN 5.0 came into effect from 13th January

2009. All authoritiesthat have yet to upload an ODD file, or have EToN 4.0 files

hosted on the NSG siteshould review this and upload new files where applicable.


**4. Training**Training has been organised for individuals new to the NSG.

Course content coversthe following:

The history of the NSG up to the present dayWho is involved in the NSG Community (Street works, Gazetteers,

Utilities)Relationships with the National Land and Property Gazetteer

(NLPG)Data Entry Conventions and Best PracticesData Specification DTF7.1Data Compliance ChecksData Health ChecksWays to use NSG dataTraining has been organised for the following dates: Thursday

10th September 2009and Monday 26th October 200. For more information about this,

please contact [1][email protected].


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**5. NSG Meetings**Meetings have been arranged for the following Regions:

East Midlands Region Wednesday 19th August 2009For more information on Regional Meetings please contact your

Regional Chair. Ifyou would like to know who your Regional Chair is, please

contact the [1]NSG Helpdesk.


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045. John Adam St Gang: Intelligent Addressing; Ezine July 2009