Our skills

Our Skills

In the information management age, organisations are founded and survive on data. It is an essential yet high-cost resource to maintain, and never has the need to exploit its potential been greater.

At Intelligent Addressing, our aim is to help organisations, public and private, find and manage the information that they need. Our address data cleansing skills and gazetteer expertise make us a leading authority in address information management. These skills enable our clients to manage their data more effectively, ensuring their data is future proofed by matching and linking it to British Standard protocols such as the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), which is based on the British Standard for Spatial data-sets for geographical referencing, BS 7666.

Intelligent Addressing has three key skills areas, some of which are unrivalled in the UK:

Management of address data hubs

IA manages the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) on behalf of local government.

This involves collating about 20,000,000 records each month and the secure distribution of different cuts of datasets totalling about 40,000,000 records to some 551 organisations on different media under the terms of the Mapping Services Agreement (MSA).

Data cleaning and matching

Over the course of the last two years alone, IA has cleaned over 1 billion address records and matched them to the NLPG. Data has included addresses in many different formats and derived from the Postcode Address File, Ordnance Survey Address-Point, Council Tax, national Non-Domestic Rating Lists, Electoral Rolls, Police Command & Control data, Utilities, Land Charges, HM Land Registry, Housing Associations, etc

In several instances, IA has been retained to help keep address data contained in other databases synchronised with the NLPG.

If your organisation has any of the following data issues, then we can help

  • Address anomalies
  • Inaccurate addresses
  • Address duplications
  • Variable quality of data indexing
  • Lost records
  • Currency of data
  • Incomplete lists
  • Misdirected mail
  • Inability to link or match two datasets together with certainty
  • Inability to match one record (eg on ownership) to others (eg on planning, land charges, maps etc)

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Consultancy

IA advises organisations on matters relating to land and property addressing. We provided advice for the original development of BS 7666, the UK's addressing standard, and have remained actively involved in its review.

IA's consultancy services are at present mainly used widely within local government, the emergency services and utilities.