AddressView OSNI (Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Pointer)

AddressView OSNI AddressView OSNI, derived from the OSNI Pointer database, is the most complete authoritative database of Northern Ireland addresses. Pointer is a comprehensive and standardised address database that holds address information for every property in Northern Ireland.

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AddressView OSNI suggested applications

  • Marketing analysis;
  • Delivery routing;
  • Asset Management;
  • Environmental impact analysis.

AddressView OSNI features & use

  • Includes all the information in the Pointer database;
  • A symbol within the footprint of the building, for each of the 722,000 addresses
  • Contains a postcode for each address and a cross-reference to Sheet Maps and Plans;
  • Primary Care Organisation identified for every point;
  • Fits precisely with CoverMap OSNI product derived from OSNI Large-scale vector dataset;
  • Available as full national coverage or smaller ‘cut-out’ extracts (priced per record).

AddressView OSNI technical information

A workspace (for use in MapInfo Professional GIS) or project file (for use in ESRI ArcView/GIS) opens all the layers and sets zoom layer thresholds that determine when the layers are visible.

Suitable for scales on screen in the range 1:10,000 to 1:100. The location of points is accurate to within 1m.

The Irish Transverse Mercator Grid co-ordinate system is used.

The storage space required is about 700MB for full NI coverage in MapInfo TAB format.

Main formats available: MapInfo TAB, ESRI SHP, AutoCAD DXF, Illustrator EPS and others.

AddressView OSNI is licensed for internal business use by a specified number of users and includes hard copy prints. Publishing on the Internet may require the next multi-user pricing band.

After the first year there is an annual charge equal to the initial price, including one update per year.


AddressView OSNI coverage available

  • Northern Ireland; or
  • Selected area (priced per record); and
  • Great Britain (companion product – AddressView - derived from the Ordnance Survey OS MasterMap Address Layer dataset).

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