The National Land and Property Gazetteer...
The National Land and Property Gazetteer was fully resourced and used universally by Central and Local Government. All duplicate address lists could be replaced with one saving millions in maintenance costs and all Government information could be 'joined up' to give a full, true strategic view of the nation.
written 1st June 2009 | | abusive?rated 7.0/10 by 3 users | rate a random post
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Alister Humphreys notes: From an operational efficiency viewpoint it would be great if the whole of Government utilised the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG). This dataset details the address down to property level, a significant advantage over traditional building level address datasets, just think of all the people who live in flats up and down the country! While all Local Authorities in England and Wales contribute to the NLPG, a much smaller number actually exploit the full value of the data. At Experian QAS we've worked on some large scale projects, including a joint venture between three local authorities who wanted to use their new shared services centre to capture and validate citizen addresses against the NLPG. On a smaller scale, in London we've worked with the London Borough of Brent who cleanse citizen addresses against the NLPG as part of their Client Data Index project. This is a process run frequently so that London Borough of Brent have the latest address information for their citizens. These projects are already starting to deliver efficiencies and cost saving back to local government, offsetting some of the hard work that was required to build the NLPG in the first place. The great thing about the NLPG is that in addition to detailing the address down to individual property level, it gives information on what are know as non-addressables e.g. parkland. This is invaluable information for our emergency services. Think of your local fire brigade being called out to a fire on Clapham Common. Being able to pick this area out from the same dataset as one which will pinpoint a particular flat on Clapham High Street with a chip pan on fire has distinct advantages beyond cost savings. Where speed of response is key, the emergency services could literally save lives by being able to quickly access one single address dataset.
written 11th June 2009 | abusive? -
chris notes: I've been working on ways to use the NLPG within a County Council.
What I've found is that the core system we need to integrate with is now (after many years) so finely tuned to specific needs it can't easily be replaced. Without the suppliers developing new services we can't use NLPG in an intelligent way.
We want to use it, but to "force" the NLPG in would actually cost us more time and money than it's worth.
written 1st March 2010 | abusive?