Summary
Type:
Technical standards and specifications
Topics:
Demographics
Introduction:
The OSG hosts the address data as determined by 32 Scottish local authority street naming and numbering departments with the statutory power to create addresses which include the postcode and posttown information sourced from Royal Mail.\r\n\r\nThe Improvement Service source address data from each Scottish local authority\u0027s local gazetteer and process the data to create a national view of all address and street information.\r\n\r\nAll addresses are processed and validated upon upload to the OSG to ensure critical information relating to location and address information is present. Users also have the option to raise a query against any of the addresses to suggest any corrections.\r\n\r\nEach address includes Ordnance Survey derived map coordinates, Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN), Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRN), and postcodes from Royal Mail. The data is further enhanced by including property classifications and street level information.
Contact Point
Contact Point:
Contact Point Comment:
The Improvement Service,
Documentation
Description:
Unlocking location through UPRN & USRN
For almost two decades local authorities have been creating and maintaining Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN) and Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRN) which detail every property & road in the UK. Use of the UPRN & USRN has led to recognised financial savings and efficiency gains and these identifiers have become essential to many parts of the public and commercial sector including the emergency services, Scottish Government, Registers of Scotland and National Registers of Scotland. This has been achieved by using the UPRN & USRN as key identifiers allowing users to link information across multiple datasets acting as a “golden thread” and thereby reducing errors when sharing data across systems and depts. To help ensure that these benefits can be enshrined across the public sector use of the UPRN and USRN has been mandated within the Open Standards for Government
ICT
Many UK local authorities have already have made the use of the UPRN and USRN a requirement for all new systems. Public Sector IT strategies should work in tandem with corporate data strategies to help realise proposed benefits by ensuring all systems and data standards adopt the use of the UPRN and USRN in applicable systems.
Procurement
The public sector should endeavour to ensure that any proposed systems that support front-line services can hold the UPRN/USRN. Most IT suppliers/software vendors to the public sector already cater for this requirement by adhering to the BS7666 data standard.
Corporate Data Strategies
As the public sector works towards fully realised data standards, public sector organisations should ensure that the UPRN and USRN are enshrined as fundamental pillars in making data interoperable and maximising the use of the data being captured.
Documentation Link:
Dependencies:
Name:Open standards for government
Explanation:Use of the UPRN and USRN has been mandated within the Open Standards for
Government
Role:Documentation
Review & Status
Mandated:
Yes
Status:
active
Origin
Name:
Data Catalogue