Presentation on 'Standarised data for Place as a Platform' by so and so from the Local Digital Futures - Working as One: Platforms & Sharing event held on 4 March 2016 in London.

1. Standarised data for Place as a Platform
Steve Brandwood
Head of Engagement

2. 30 Addresses

4. • Flat 1, 21 Ash Grove London NW2 3LN
• Ground Floor Flat, 21 Ash Grove London
• 21A Ash Grove London NW2
• Flat 1, 21 Ash Gr. London NW2 3LM
• 21A Ash Grove, Cricklewood
• Ground Floor Flat, Cnr Elm Grove & Ash Grove
• FL 1 21 Ash Grove
UPRN = 200004525
Parent UPRN = 200219244
Wouldn‘t it be great if……………

5. Better, cheaper digital services
In public services it’s a lot more complicated!
How do we achieve this?
• We are collectively so rich in data which sadly
too often is left to languish in the splendid
isolation of a departmental corner
• By agreeing common standards and
frameworks we can enable far more effective
linking to data we already hold
• Through collaboration across places, within
places & between diverse levels of services
regardless of whether they are directly publicly
owned or not

6. Collaboration across places
• A consistent & reliable property
level view of council services
across departments
• increasing focus on place-based
programmes such as Troubled
Families, Health and Social Care
and the One Estate programme, all
of which bring different
departments and agencies together
to provide services to a discrete
client
• Supports devolution and reduces
duplication within and across
authorities and partners

7. GeoPlace is a public sector Limited Liability Partnership
(LLP) jointly owned by the Local Government Association
and Ordnance Survey
+ =
Provides a vehicle for improvement, transformation and
efficiency across Government in the use of location data
GeoPlace

8. Common standards and
frameworks
• Local authority address and street
datasets are built and maintained
through national standards and
conventions, ensuring
interoperability and consistency
across data
• Standardised identifiers provide a
reliable joined-up view of property
and can be used to link data of the
same property
• The PSMA and OSMA are
mechanisms for ensuring that
standardised data are freely
available across the whole of the
public sector

9. Central
Maintenance
FTPupdate
NSGHTTP
Update
GeoPlace database
Streets and
Addresses
Epoch and
COU
PublishingInterface
Live
Publishing
Contributing
LAs
DataValidation
Royal Mail
Local
Authorities
VOA
OSG
OS
Local
Gaz

10. • Manage a data store of over 300 million complex relational
records
• Receive, validate and health check 7,000+ file updates from 450
councils per month
• Link this data continuously with location data from the VOA, Royal
Mail, Ordnance Survey
• Provide a managed service infrastructure for product for
distribution by Ordnance Survey
• Continually monitor, analyse and report on data quality
• Support and promote good data management techniques with
councils
• Provide technical and process documentation and training
• Data consultancy services (data matching, migration and
implementation)
The scale of work

11. Re-using the data
• Co-ordinating activity
between delivery teams
• Joining up partners
• PSMA
• Using the UPRN
– A wealth of local and central
gov't case studies
– used in the api for the Local
Digital Waste Standard

12. Call for action
1. Build a strong foundation - adopt the UPRN and USRN as
your council’s definitive master location references - provide
a central point of contact to receive, review and report
changes to this data
2. Maintain the data as a corporate asset for your council -
collect once and use the same data many times - avoiding
duplication and erroneous data
3. Create a culture of sharing - ensure that the UPRN and
USRN are used to link up with all council functions and
services
4. Use the data to enable improved partnership working
between organisations at both a national and local level

13. contact
Steve Brandwood
Steven.Brandwood@geoplace.co.uk
T: 020 7747 3500
www.geoplace.co.uk