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Mapping the Digital Infrastructure Future
This document summarizes a workshop session on mapping the digital infrastructure future. It discusses how mapping is fundamental to internet connectivity but that postcodes were intended for mail, not precise mapping. It advocates using Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN) assigned by local authorities to map telecom infrastructure like cabinets, masts, and access points more accurately. Adopting UPRN as a common mapping standard could lead to easier network design, lower costs, better data and networks, and more shared infrastructure.
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Mapping the Digital Infrastructure Future
- 1. INCA Conference, Manchester16-17 Oct 19 Mapping the Digital Infrastructure Future Workshop Session 2
- 2. Maps fundamental tointernet connectivity • Where is my network? • Where are my new customers? • What is the best route between the two? • Costs for civils • Costs for process • Costs for tendering • Costs impact investors, public funding
- 3. Postcodes – forpost, not maps • Never intended for mapping. • Postcode areas are generated from locations. • Too large, especially in rural areas. • What’s the postcode of a lamp-post? • Need something that gives map co-ordinates of the asset • UPRN, TOID, Proprietary
- 4. Stakeholders and Projects •Geospatial Commission. • DCMS – BDUK Mapping publicly- funded assets. • Enabling Public infrastructure sharing. • National Underground Asset Register. • Network design systems. • Network builders and contractors. • Ordnance Survey. • LFFN. • Gigabit Connectivity Scheme. • Crown Commercial Service – Dynamic Purchasing System. • Any Local Authority project seeking to increase coverage. • Local Authority Planning system (UPRNs exist before Postcodes) • A common approach benefits all – faster and cheaper network build means more coverage more quickly at less cost.
- 5. Mapping - UPRN •Unique Property Reference Number – established ecosystem for allocations • Local Authorities • GeoPlace • OS • Existing premises already have (re-use) • Allocated to new premises at planning stage • Historically included some telecoms and post infrastructure • Phone box, post box, poles, airwave • Why not cabinets, masts, other assets? • Above ground? • access points, chambers, duct endpoints? • Available in OS AddressBase Products • 38 million addressable objects • ONS • National Statistics Address NHS locations • GP Registrations • Local Authorities • Valuation Office • Land Registry • Look−up • USO
- 6. The Future ofDigital Infrastructure Mapping • Easier and quicker network design, lower cost. • Better data means better networks, faster. • Sharing infrastructure means lower cost. • Public data should be open access. • Common approach to data is sane approach. • Better mapping benefits everyone: customers, builders, investors, policy.