GeoPlace: producing the national address gazetteer database

GeoPlace

GeoPlace is a public sector limited liability partnership between the Local Government Association and Ordnance Survey. Our vision is to be the recognised centre of excellence for spatial address and street information management in Great Britain.

GeoPlace's role is to create and maintain the National Address Gazetteer Database and the National Street Gazetteer for England and Wales, providing definitive sources of publicly-owned spatial address and street data. Through agreement with Scotland's Improvement Service Company, the plan is to extend the coverage to Scotland

Benefits of the AddressBase™ products

Street scene; graffiti removalThe AddressBase™ products have the potential to deliver significant cost savings across the public sector. A single definitive database will assist with the streamlining of services, reducing duplication and facilitating partnership working with private and third sector delivery bodies. By synchronising data and processes nationally, significant cost savings will be achieved by eliminating the need for users to undertake data matching of different spatial address datasets.

Public Sector Mapping Agreement

Unified national address dataThrough the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA), the AddressBase™ products will be licensed and delivered across the whole of the public sector. The PSMA, led by DCLG, will help to join up government through the sharing of location data between all its members; local government, emergency services, central government and health. All these organisations will be able to use the data on the same licensing terms, providing a licensing framework that enables more collaborative working with all delivery partners and enabling greater data sharing.

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