Addresses and Address Data - Experiences from Denmark

Addresses and Address Data

– Socio-economic Benefits of Open Address Data– Experiences from Denmark

– The Present Danish Address Program

Program Manager, The Address Program, Morten Lind

A Very Brief History

On Danish addressing

OSM Paris, 04-04-2014 DK Addresses and Address Data 3

1970…: Address coverage extended 1967: Post codes

introduced

1970-75: Street names and addresses in rural areas

1978-1980: Standard address structure


1990…: Consensus on potential value

Postal ServicesYellow pages

Marketing

Civil registration

Mobile services

Statistics

Location planning

Research, Energy

Public servicesTax, assessmentInsurance/finacing

Property market

Transport

Customer relations

Emergency

Health care

Car navigation

ADDR3A

Addresses = A common base and reference for all domains and applications (INSPIRE: “Reference Data”)


1990… Geo-coding and Harmonization (1)

Volunteer municipality work 1996-2001 Harmonization of registers and base maps 97% of all ~2 mill addresses geo coded Address as a independent, common asset

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Map


1990… Geo-coding and Harmonization (2)

KRRPropertyData Registers

BBRBuilding- and DwellingRegister

MunicipalTechnical Base Maps


2000 … Appointing a Basic Address Register

CPR

Central PersonRegister

ESR

MunicipalValuationRegister

KRR

CrossReferenceRegister

BBR

Building- and DwellingRegister

GIS

MunicipalGeoInformation

CVR

CentralBusinessRegister

MunicipalTechnical Base Maps

Map

Appointed as base register for addresses


2002: Free-of-Charge Address Data Agreement

In 2002 the Min. of Finance and ”Local Authorities Denmark” agreed that Danish address data should

be disseminated free-of-charge for non-commercial as well as commercial purposes.

The municipalities received a economic compensation for 4 years.

Value of Address Data

- 2010: Assessment of Value of the Agreement on “Free-of-Charge” Address Data


The Business Case Challenge

2000 2005 2010 2015

Good

Better

Best

Average

Start ’Zero’

Today

Impact ofagreement Can we assess the

benefits of the increased data re-use?


2005-2010 Chain of Re-use

ADDR

‘Public Data Server’ (PDS)

2nd level

Licensed Data Distributors

3rd 5th4th …

End users

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Re-use and re-re-use


Calculation of costs (simple …)

Cost 2005 – 2009:

Compensation of local governments: 1.3 mill. EUR (~10 mill. DKK)

Costs of distribution/common hub (PDS): 1.3 mill. EUR (~10 mill. DKK)

Total cost 2003-2009 2.6 mill. EUR (~20 mill. DKK)


Survey 2010 and Results

Questionnaire, February 2010– Reply from 14 of 22 distributors, among

these were the largest

Q1: Data sets distributed 2009?– A1: In total 1250 datasets, of these 300 was

‘full cover DK’

Q2: Your forecast for 2010?– A2: In average a 10% increase in volume is

expected in 2010


Survey 2010 and ResultsUse of address data sets

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Number of Address data sets distributed or updated to 3rd parties in 2002 and 2009(of the 1250, approximately 300 was ’full cover Denmark’

70%

20%

10%

Private sectorState, regionMunicipality


Assessment of Benefits 2005-2009

2002 2010

1250 data sets

3: ~ 58 mill EUR (~ 433 mill. DDK)

1+2: ~ 5 mill EUR (~ 38 mill. DDK)

SUM: ~ 63 mill EUR (~ 471 mill. DDK)

Conservative estimation of direct, measurable economic benefits:


Assessment of Benefits 2005-2009

Direct, measurable economic benefits from re-use of public address data 2005-2009: ~ 63 mill. EUR (~471 mill. DKK)

Assessed benefits in 2010:~ 14 mill. EUR (~105 mill. DKK)

Cost of data agreement 2003-2009:~ 2.6 mill. EUR (~20 mill. DKK)

~ In 2010: 0.2 mill. EUR (~1.5 mill. DKK)

Present Situation

- A short characteristic

External Interest in Improvement *)

• Public sector – at all levels:– Waste of time in management of in-formal, local address registers– Waste of time to sort out data inconsistency from different sources

• Business – Utilities, LBS service providers, transport sector:– Higher accuracy, better address coverage and improved timeliness– Improved data services, reduced costs of acquisition

• Citizens:– Are worried if GPS and emergency service will not find them– Are troubled when services are poor because of bad addressing

*) Based on several stakeholder reports and feed back from users and citizens



New World of Hand Held LBS is Evolving

> 50 % of all Households! (1,25 mill.)

Antal husstande med GPS navigation og smartphone(Kilde: Danmarks Statistik)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

GPS navigation

Smartphone

*) Add to this number of GPS, smartphones and tablets used in private businesses and public sector

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=Smattphone%20map&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=eFIy8SBB4yyIzM&tbnid=SWYgLmJN6azjqM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://pearson4loyalty.com/2013/08/with-smartphone-geolocation-and-trust-local-beats-long-distance/&ei=B90jUp3TFqi70QXK5oGwBw&bvm=bv.51495398,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNEniIDbyCKR2ldNqXO7EiqJ5-oymQ&ust=1378168394008396


Dagbladet Ringsted, 2. januar 2009

Nordjyske Stiftstidende, 28. maj 2011

Cooperation with OpenStreetMap


• The OpenStreetMap community use our address data in OSM

• OSM pinpoint and report errors e.g. in an address or road name

• We use the reports to improve quality of our authentic data

• … which again will improve situation for all users

OSM Error Report Examples


Errors in Road names

Errors in position of address

Corrected

Error in original data


Because errors are annoying ….. and can be fatal!

Demolished wrong house – the GPS pointed out wrong address


• Because our address data are open they are widely in use for many applications

• Because our data are in use and open, users see the mutual benefits in reporting errors

• Because we receive error reports, we are able to improve our address data

Note


Potential Cost-benefit of a Danish Address

1 1000 5.000.000Address authority Industry Products

The municipal address authority allocates and registers an address or a road name

1000 application developers or data producers integrates the address or road name in their product or service

5 mill. users now have access to the new address or road name in their it-system, GPS, smartphone or tablet

CostBenefit

The Address Program

Vision and deliveries


The Address Program


The data quality – e.g. timeliness, accuracy, coverage,

harmonization, standardization

The back end infrastructure – e.g. base register systems, coherence with

other basic data sets etc.

The services– E.g. by reliable, high-effect, open services

for mapping, online access and download

Therefore ten promises to the future user of address data

The Address Program shall Improve

# 1 Open and Accessible

Address data will be available in high efficient digital services which are updated and maintained according to user’s needs and technology

– without charge of fee or license restrictions

# 2 Early

Addresses will be present as early as possible - e.g. so that the road name and address is available for the utility company, the entrepreneur and the estate agent –

even before the land division is approved and the building has been constructed

# 3 Current, Timely

Address updates will be available for the users within seconds or minutes (and not within weeks or months) – and data will be

updated when a change occurs – and not weeks or months after.

There will no longer exist ”white spots” where many activities unfolds and services

are delivered – without proper addressing.

# 4 Full Cover

Data is unambiguous and will have a positional accuracy which reflects the technologic development and the user’s needs

– e.g. for hand held mobile devices for navigation and location

# 5 Accurate

# 6 Standardized

Address data model and standards will be well defined across the full domain of basic data – and international agreements.

Quality- and metadata will be available in order to support cost effective development of applications

Addresses and data will be quality proved through daily use, according to agreed and open quality norms. Errors and omissions can be reported

easily – and will be corrected efficiently and quickly.

# 7 Trustworthy

The three big public data domains (person, business, property) will use the same address data set as a common reference, in order to ensure

that information from these domains can be linked together.

# 8 Consistent

# 9 Persistent

Addresses will be persistent location identifiers and will not be affected by changes in ownership or administrative reference

– users should not be bothered by unnecessary updates

Data will be ”ready for use” in navigation and location applications e.g. for in hand held mobile devices. All road names and address

instances will have a proper link to a digital road network.

# 10 Navigation-enabled

Two Examples

a) Trustworthy, persistent


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Address-id: 0a3f507b-01ac-32b8-g033-0003ba298020Municipal.code: 0450 Østerby kommuneRoadcode/name:3950 NørmarksvejAddress Number: 18

Address-id: 0a3f507b-01ac-32b8-g033-0003ba298020Municipal.code: 0450 Østerby kommuneRoadcode/name:3950 NørmarksvejAddress Number: 18

Address-id: 0a3f507b-01ac-32b8-g033-0003ba298020Municipal.code: 0450 Østerby kommuneRoadcode/name: 4511 Lille NørmarksvejAddress Number: 4

b) Navigation enabled


04-11-2013 Kortdage Adresser, administrative inddelinger og stednavne 45


Benefits of the Address Program

Improved Data Quality

and timeliness

Improved infrastructure

Systematic Re-use

IT-Infrastructure:(Implementation + operation)

New address registerData Distribution/Services

Improved Data Quality:(implementation costs)

Extra FTE’s in municipalities and MBBL

Address authority tasks:(operational costs)

Extra FTE’s in municipalities and MBBL

Benefits from digital self-service, electronic forms, applications, reporting

Reduced cost of new it-applications and systems

Reduced cost and time of present it and address data management

Other business process benefits In total

~30 mill EUR/yr from 2015

~ 5 mill EUR(one time) +1 mill EUR/yr

~ 85 FTE(one time)

~ 40 FTEevery year


A new Business Case

2012 2016 2020

EvenBetter

Almostperfect?

Good

Today’Zero’

(Do nothing)

Future situation

Impact of Address program

Estimated annual net benefit: 30 mill. EUR/yr


October 2012: Business Case Approved*)

*) In spite of skepticism to the precise figures, all parties agreed on that the befits are there

January 2013: Program is now at Work

Steering Committee Ministry for Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs (Chair) Danish Geodata Agency Local Governments Denmark Population Register Center Danish Business Authority Danish Tax Authority Danish Agency for Digitization



… and the Program Manger Appointed

… and first results are supposed to be delivered 2014

Contact Information

• Morten Lind, Ministry for Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs – Denmark, [email protected]

• The Ministry (MBBL): www.mbbl.dk

• Danish Geodata Agency: www.gst.dk

• Danish Basic Data Program: http://uk.fm.dk/publications/2012/good-basic-data-for-everyone/

• The Address Program: www.adresseprogrammet.dk

• Danish Address Website: www.danmarksadresser.dk

• Address data services: www.aws.dk

• The value of Danish address data: http://danmarksadresser.dk/file/389579/Value_Assessment_Danish_Address_Data_UK_2010-07-07.pdf

• Twitter: Danmarks Adresser - @DKAdresser

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Addresses and Address Data - Experiences from Denmark