Identification

Title

AddressBase

Abstract

Ordnance Survey's addressing product, AddressBase® matches 29 million Royal Mail postal address to unique property reference numbers (UPRN), bringing a geographical dimension to the matched records. Identify a property and locate it on a map with precision – using the X and Y coordinates we’ve assigned to the Royal Mail PAF® data. Our basic classifications – residential or commercial – will reduce the costs and increase the effectiveness of your direct marketing. AddressBase™ contains Royal Mail PAF addresses (for England and Wales), both commercial and residential, matched to the local authority Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://os.uk/business-and-government/products/addressbase.html

name: Product description

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

AddressBase

codeSpace

https://os.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2013-12-10

Keyword set

keyword value

Residential Addresses

Commercial Addresses

Postcodes

classifications

Ordnance Survey

OS

GeoPlace

Local Government Group

Local Government Information House

UPRN

UDPRN

PAF

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.655

East bounding longitude

1.79

North bounding latitude

60.85

South bounding latitude

49.90

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

2020-11-30

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011-09-30

date type

revision

effective date

2021-01-07

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Captured and maintained primarily by PAF and matched against local authority and large scale data.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

AddressBase is not a compliant INSPIRE Address dataset

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-10-15

degree

true

explanation

Conforms to OS specification

Data format

name of format

GML

version of format

3.2.1

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO160AS

United Kingdon

telephone number

03453 757535

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

https://os.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

OS Products

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

full postal address

Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO160AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

03456050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

http://os.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-02-05T15:26:35

Metadata language