AddressView, from the OS MasterMap Address Layer, provides precise coordinates for more than 27 million residential and commercial properties in Great Britain (not including Isle of Man) – the most accurate and up-to-date link between any property address and its location on the map. The Address Layer originates from the Royal Mail's master postcode address file (PAF).
AddressView suggested applications
- Marketing analysis;
- Delivery routing;
- Asset Management;
- Environmental impact analysis.
AddressView features & use
- Same data structure as PAF, with additional postal address field in normal envelope-style format;
- Simple positional accuracy indicator, from A (within building) to Z (no co-ordinates);
- Ordnance Survey Address-Point Reference (OSAPR) and cross-reference to Topographic Area TOID;
- Includes locality names of parishes and suburban areas;
- Fits precisely with CoverMap product derived from OS MasterMap Topography Layer dataset;
- OS MasterMap Address Layer is the most powerful land and property management tool available in Great Britain;
- Available as full national coverage or smaller ‘cut-out’ extracts (priced per record).
AddressView technical information
A workspace (for use in MapInfo Professional GIS) or project file (for use in ESRI ArcView/GIS) is supplied.
Suitable for scales on screen in the range 1:10,000 to 1:100. The location of points is accurate to within 0.01m.
The British National Grid co-ordinate system is used.
The storage space required is about 30GB for full GB coverage in MapInfo TAB format.
Main formats available: MapInfo TAB, ESRI SHP, AutoCAD DXF, Illustrator EPS and others.
AddressView is licensed for internal business use by a specified number of users and includes hard copy prints. Publishing on the Internet may be licensed by special arrangement.
After the first year there is an annual charge equal to the initial price, including one update per year.
AddressView coverage available
- Great Britain; or
- Selected area (priced per record); and
- Northern Ireland (companion product – AddressView OSNI - derived from the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Pointer dataset).