Delivering Spatial Data Infrastructure through local government – Andrew Larner

Local government’s change agenda

The vision of councils and the citizen

• One stop fulfilment• Through choice of channel

– By officer in the home– By officer over the counter– Over Internet, Digital TV and Telephone

• By 2005?• Need for priorities for example …

– Access– Engagement– Re-engineering

How to assess the priorities

• citizens priorities - as measured by call volumes?

• financial priorities – how do we afford the change?

• political priorities - achievement of declared government policies and legislation?

• re-engineering priorities – creating platforms upon which all projects can build?

Channels Policy Paper

NLIS

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LASER

Change of AddressElectoral Commission

Statutory users

Platform for electronic voting

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How do the projects fit together?

SERVICE

WHOLESALE

SUPPLIER

CUSTOMER

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

New customer centred businesses

Commercial services – event and locality

Ihavemoved.comUpmystreet.com

Transaction OnlineTeramediaSearchflow

RETAIL

Hubservices

The importance of underlying spatial data

Take a bird’s eye view …….

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Unit level is essential for knowledge management ….

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Council Tax/Rates

Gas, Water & Electricity Supply

Rights of passage

Ownership/Leases/licences

Housing Benefit

Electoral Roll

Planning/use

Emergency Services

Social Services

Refuse Collection

If it ain’t broke …

• Quality of data in the UK

• Census v Register

• Operational systems:– better statistical

information– e.g. address

change – enhance privacy

• Quality of data in the UK

• Census v Register

• Operational systems:– better statistical

information– e.g. address

change – enhance privacy

Address: the keystone of information management

• 85% of databases use the address• The GB address-base is poorly defined• PAF is designed for mail delivery • Lack of consistent data collection

methodology• Lack of standards and linkage protocols • NLPG has adopted industry sponsored

BS7666• NLPG will offer a compliant gazetteer

for all land and property throughout GB

Local Government is pivotal

• Statutory responsibility for street naming & numbering• Initiator of the “geographic” addressing process• LG cost of address management & research is at least

£50 million p.a. (Council Tax, Electoral Roll, new dev’t etc)

• Data taken ad hoc without charge by third parties (eg Royal Mail, Experian, Equifax)

• A consistent compilation will:– Produce internal savings– Enable the work to be exploited more effectively

• Revenue opportunities• Better knowledge management brings financial benefits

• The cost of joining the NLPG process is a barrier

Progress to date

Peaks and Troughs

E-Procurement hype cycle

Stage 1 - creation of first cut NLPG

Council Tax

+Non-Domestic Rates

BS7666 Format

BS7666 Format

PI Gazetteer/ Other national datasets

BS7666 Format

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First draftNLPG

Address-Point

Co-ordinate/UPRN Look-up file

Giving full national coverage from

existing national datasets

BS7666 Format

Stage 2 - Creation of Local Land & Property Gazetteers (LLPG)

Electoral Roll

+Non-Domestic Rates

BS7666 Format

BS7666 Format

Council Tax BS7666 Format

+Draft LLPG

Address-Point/own co-ordinates

BS7666 Format

Other datasetsBS7666 Format

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All exceptions resolved by LA

Compared to Draft NLPG version

Final LLPG(replaces draft version nationallyLocal maintenance commences)

UPRN referenceto populate

Original files

• LLPGs for most local authorities are under way

• Maintenance of the NLPG has been externally validated

• NLPG is being released

• Blockages are organisational from existing address product providers

Stage 3 - The development of the NLPG Maintenance hub

Local AuthorityLLPG

NLPG Maintenance hub

Utilities

SomeCo-ordinates

CandidateAddresses

CandidateAddresses

LRHMLR

CandidateAddresses

Planning

Street Naming& Numbering

Council Tax / NDR

ElectoralRoll

The NLIS Hub

Developing NLIS

NLIS entry levels and options

Traditional method of manual request, search and return

FILL FORMS

POSTAL REQUEST

MANUAL LLCSEARCH PROCESSING

POSTAL RETURN

NLIS entry levels and options

LEVEL 1: DX or post request, manual search and return, BACS

NLISPORTAL

POSTAL REQUEST

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DX REQUEST

NLIS entry levels and options

LEVEL 2: Electronic request, manual search and electronic return

NLIS Starter Kit

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DX REQUEST

ELECTRONIC

REQUEST

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NLIS entry levels and options

LEVEL 3: Automated electronic request, search and return

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NLIS Hub Transaction Volumes

The value of working together

FINANCIAL VALUE £Million 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 TOTALPROGRAMME RSG £0.66 £0.71 £0.71 £2.08FUNDS GENERATED BY PROJECT £3.57 £2.05 £4.65 £10.27

SPEND ON SPEND £41.59 £36.59 £35.59 £113.77LA'S SAVE £138.42 £138.42 £137.42 £414.27

ADD FIN £6.00 £30.00 £100.00 £136.00TOTAL £190 £208 £278 £676AVERAGE £225

RESERVES £1.25 £0.25 £0.25 £1.75ASET £14.00 £9.00 £8.00 £31.00TOTAL VALUE £15.25 £9.25 £8.25 £32.75

Additional IDeA Benefits Marketplace LearningAdditional UK Benefits Brown land Voting Gazzumping

for every £1 of money given to the Information House, a combined spend and save of £324 is returned to local authorities

Blockages to working together …

• Standards– Increasing understanding of the

requirement– The loudest industry voices are “academic”

rather than “practical”

• Policy– Local government policy environment

moving in the opposite direction– Local government bodies are not interested– Ministers look after their agencies

Potential ways forward

• Adopt the example of HMSO– Click Use licence and Fair Trading– Local authorities are both

• Building blocks– Need to establish regulation of local

government – HMSO for national datasets?

– Ensure datasets are agreed between central and local – don’t overburden

– REQUIRE standards adoption as a part of publication

Delivering Spatial Data Infrastructure through local government – Andrew Larner

Andrew.larner@idea.gov.uk