Bringing location to life

Case studies

Following are case studies from the conference and from the Exemplar Awards.

• "We aim to have a centralised service available for any government body where you can validate an address, get good quality data matched against that in Address Base, gather your UPRN then map it across"
  • Using Addresses to protect citizens and prevent fraud - Andrew Letherby, Head of Monitoring, Digital Operations, HMRC

• "Public services get delivered locally. Geospatial data supports our work by enabling us to understand how well those services are delivered across the country"
  • Using the UPRN to scrutinise government activity and understand delivery at a local level - Dr Marc Adams, Senior Analyst and MESH Mapping Lead, National Audit Office

• "The more aligned our datasets are, to AddressBase and to the UPRN, the greater their usability will be and the greater the benefit to citizens. It's about better decision-making, with better data"
  • Citizens to services: an insight into the workings of the Access to Services domain within the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 - Matt Ricketts, GI Analyst, Geography and Technology, Welsh Government

• "Thanks to GeoPlace's input and collaboration between GIS teams, we now have the underlying tertiary classification data to provide reports and analysis with far greater confidence"
  • Tertiaries 'R' Us - Mary Burton, Address Management Officer, Nottingham City Council

• "Perhaps the most important outcome for Conwy County is the way in which location-linked Customer Portals have been embraced and adopted by the public. This demonstrates the Council's commitment to listening and resolving problems, and to being transparent and effective in the management of assets and allocation of resources"
  • Environment Roads and Facilities Digital Transformation Project - Sophie Birchall-Rogerson, Senior Management Information Systems Officer, Conwy County Council

• "We're currently working to establish direct links to the Gazetteer – this new system is helping us to improve the quality of the data we're collecting"
  • Waste Collection Services Incab System - James Atthews, Management Support Analyst and LLPG Custodian, Scarborough Borough Council

• "We identified a problem, talked to everyone involved, and then worked as a team – using the information in the Gazetteer – to design and create a location"
  • How to avoid letting off steam - Gareth Osborne, Senior Address Management Officer, Nottingham City Council

• "Using the location-driven MyAccount facility, several thousand residents have opted to receive paperless billing from their local authority. This has delivered thousands of pounds of sustainable savings, instantly"
  • Our journey from serving generic content to bringing the information to the user, based on their location - Nizete Vasconcelos, GIS Manager and Petri Iivonen, Web Developer, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
• "The accuracy of the location data being used by ONS is imperative. A high-quality census will be reliant on a high quality address framework, with which to produce accurate population counts and statistics"
  • Addressing the Census - Jez Halton, Senior Research Officer, Address Register, Data Architecture, Office for National Statistics

• "London Fire Brigade's improvements in the data analytics space, using the UPRN, are helping to mitigate fire risk for the most vulnerable people and their properties"
  • Predicting and preventing London's next fire using predictive analytics and the Unique Property Reference Number - Apollo Gerolymbos, Head of Data Analytics at London Fire Brigade

• "A smooth operation depends on robust policies, great staff, and getting excellent insights from data. Understandable insights; sharable insights. Everything needs to be connected, and the USRN is the ideal way to achieve that"
  • Creating insight with Power BI and the NSG - Wayne Brooks, Service Data Manager for Highways, Devon County Council

• "Overall, integrated location is providing Dudley with greater reliability and interoperablity. The results demonstrate the obvious benefit of providing access to an out-of-Borough gazetteer facility, which correctly records a large proportion of the total call records"
  • Integrated location delivers greater reliability and interoperability – Robert Oldall, Information Systems (GIS) Team Manager, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

• "Wolverhampton Council's Garden Waste Solution shows the functionality and value of the LLPG. The results from this initiative will have a major impact on future projects that have a requirement for UPRNs and official addresses"
  • Generating revenue, improving services for citizens using the UPRN - Ian Lynch, System Support Officer (LLPG), City of Wolverhampton Council

• "By enhancing the user interface and including a modern location search feature, Cheshire Tithe Maps Online has seen an increase of average daily internet usage from 80 to150 individual user sessions"
  • Using the location data and technology of today to reveal the secrets of the past - Mark JL Dodd, Application Services Manager, Cheshire West and Chester Council and Cheshire East Council