UK: National Address Registers: Do they exist?
Intelligent Addressing have published a copy of the article titled: Question: Is there “The” National Address Register? Answer: Yes – the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) that appeared in the British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (BURISA) March 2010 Newsletter Edition number 183.
The announcement states:
“"Is there "The" National Address Register.." article published in Burisa issue 183
The latest BURISA newsletter publishes an article from Tony Black, IA's Director of Operations, on "Question: Is there "The" National Address Register? Answer: Yes - the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)" BURISA an informal, non-profit making, unincorporated association of practitioners whose common interest is the use and management of information and the development of information systems for services to the public.”
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The article highlights the discrepancies in public sector information policy in the UK and poses questions and then provides answers:
“However, addresses underpin hundreds, if not thousands, of other applications, many of which require the addresses to be 100% complete and on a daily basis. These range from over a hundred applications in local authorities, to the emergency services, utilities, transport companies, delivery firms.
Therefore The National Address Register is arguably the most important dataset in the country, though the other two key datasets would be of people (not to be confused with identity cards!) and organisations. One of the ironies about the arguments around the NLPG being “The” definitive dataset for England and Wales over the past 10 years is that the “sister” projects in Northern Ireland (Pointer) and Scotland (One Scotland Gazetteer) are accepted as being The solution in those countries.
Why isn’t the NLPG recognised in the same way and used widely?”
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