Addresses: moving in right direction with GeoPlace
Update July 2011; GeoPlace is now up and running .
GeoPlace™ – a government initiative for national addressing
New agreement set to create a single address database
LGA media release – 3 December 2010
FAQ (pdf)
GeoPlace™ Q&As [lga.gov.uk]
New national ‘address book’ to be free to emergency services [communities.gov.uk]
Although this move does not free up the data, it removes some obstacles on
the way to achieving that, as well as being worth while for society in it’s
own right with data of Ordnance Survey’s Address Layer 2 coming together with
the local government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer .
Do I feel a ‘Free the UPRN’ effort in mould of the ‘Free the Postcode’ effort taking shape
as Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) become more used?
More links:
UK Location Council Welcomes Geoplace
GeoPlace Q&As [www.nlpg.org.uk]
Links to related information & past debate around the web:
Pitch for Utilities to use NLPG [aligned-assets.co.uk]
post-office-and-os-relax-copyright-and-licences-uk-address-and-coordinate-data [data.gov.uk]
national-land-and-property-gazetteer-nlpg [data.gov.uk]
unlocking-service: National Street Gazetteer [opsi.gov.uk]
unlocking-service: NLPG [opsi.gov.uk]
Is-the-campaign-won? What-do-you-think? [freeourdata.org.uk]
Street Naming & Numbering (local authorities web search)
BBC: Postcode rebels picket Royal Mail’s headquarters
Lookup location by Postcode:
http://www.geopostcode.org.uk/
http://ukgeocode.maxmanders.co.uk/
Mapit also includes Lower Super Output Areas which the Indices of Multiple Deprivation are indexed against as well as census data.
http://mapit.mysociety.org/