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| March 2009 Edition |

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General:

1. The Power of Information Final Report

2. The Guardian Questions Census, the Future of PAF and OS's
Revenue Target
3. Working Together - Public Services on Your Side
4. GIS Takes off in Public Sector
5. £24.5m Funding to Help Councils Manage Highways Assets
6. CORE Data Matching
7. NLPG NSG Annual Conference and Exemplar Awards - Date Change
8. Case Studies
9. New Managing Director at IDeA
10. IA Appoints Two Associate Directors
11. Changes Following New Unitary Data Structure
12. New Unitary Codes

NLPG:

1. Important FTP IP Address Changes

2. Access to the NLPG Secure Site
3. User Guides

NSG:

1. Important FTP IP Address Changes

2. Access to the NSG Secure Site
3. NSG Uploads
4. DTF7.1
5. EToN 5
6. NSG Ftp
7. Regional Meetings

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[General]
**1. The Power of Information Final Report**
The final version of the [1]Taskforce Report was published on
March 4th 2009.
There are plans to circulate this widely. The Cabinet Office
site where it is published
has now been closed for comments but feedback on the report is
still welcome. A
[2]netvibes panel has also been created to track the #poit tag.

The next stage is for the government to give an official

response to the report
through Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson MP.

[1] http://poit.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/poit/
[2]
http://www.netvibes.com/cabinetoffice#Power_of_Information_Taskfor
ce

**2. The Guardian Questions Census, the Future of PAF and OS's
Revenue Target**
The Guardian has followed up on the question put by the
Opposition about the price
of the one-off census address database for 2011. It turns out
that this has risen
from £10 million to £12m in the space of just a few short
months. Read the full
story [1]here on the Guardian Free Our Data Blog.

The newspaper has also been following Lord Mandelson's plans to

sell off a minority
shareholding in the Royal Mail, reportedly to TNT which,
incidentally, already services
a number of government departments, and [2]questions what
happens to the intellectual
property rights of PAF.

OS does not escape the newspaper's [3] scrutiny drawing

attention to its increased
target for return on capital employed (ROCE) for the year ending
March 2009, and
as the recession bites.

[1] http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=294
[2] http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=292
[3] http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=296

**3. Working Together - Public Services on Your Side**

Government has recently published a report [1]'Working Together
- Public Services
On Your Side' which details the steps the Government is taking
to give people,
communities and frontline staff the information and real power
they need to personalise
public services. Government believes that reflecting their local
and individual
needs will create a richer, fairer and safer society.

[1] http://www.hmg.gov.uk/workingtogether.aspx

**4. GIS Takes off in Public Sector**

Seventy percent of government agencies have implemented or are
planning to implement
geographical information systems, according to a survey in
Europe and North America
carried out by Datamonitor. Over half have implemented GIS in
the last 12 months.

A raft of new services are driving the uptake, according to the

analyst's report,
[1]'Where in the City? Using GIS to manage government
information'. These include
mapping crime rates, urban planning, monitoring traffic patterns
and even national
defence. Nearly all information collected by governments
contains a geographical
element.

[1] http://about.datamonitor.com/media/archives/2087

**5. £24.5m Funding to Help Councils Manage Highways Assets**

Paul Clark, Transport Minister has announced that an extra
£24.5m will be awarded
to English local authorities to help them manage their roads,
bridges and other
highways assets. The money will help councils to gather
important information on
their streetlights, bridges, roads and other assets, in order to
manage them as
effectively as possible. It is being paid in response to bids
from local authorities
across England. Full story here. [1]http://nds.coi.gov.uk

[1] http://nds.coi.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?
ReleaseID=394532&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False

**6. CORE Data Matching**

The IA Special Projects Team has now received 128 files and has
returned reports
on 123 of them using IA's combined software and manual matching
processes. Over
8 million records have been processed with an average match rate
of 97.30%. IA has
matched over half of the authorities in the Yorkshire and
Humberside Region which
has gained a match rate of 98.15%. Any local authorities
interested in using IA
for their CORE data matching should contact Catherine Teare on
020 7747 3500 or
email [1]core@intelligent-addressing.co.uk. The service costs
£1,806 plus VAT and
the average turnaround time is 5-10 working days. We will
provide you with a file
of RoE/LLPG matches, unmatched records and a report detailing
the results of the
matching process.
 Free Validation for the CORE Project

Intelligent Addressing trialled this service for the AEA AGM,

Conference and Exhibition
in Brighton on February 8th to 11th 2009. It is aimed at local
authorities who
have finished matching their Register of Electors to the Local
Land and Property
Gazetteer (LLPG) and wish to check the validity of their work.

Having received some good results IA would now like to test a

larger sample and
we are therefore offering this service free to the first 30
local authorities that
send us data. The closing date for sending data has now been
extended to April 24th
2009.

The service will analyse matches between your Register of

Electors (RoE) and the
National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), and will, amongst
other tests:
check that all UPRNs that are matched to RoE records exist in
the NLPG;
check whether any of the UPRNs relate to properties classified
as non-residential;
check whether any of the UPRNs relate to properties that are
historic or rejected;
check whether there are any UPRNs that are duplicated in the RoE
data;
check whether any of the UPRNs are located outside the local
authority area or do
not exist in the NLPG;
check whether any of the RoE xrefs are duplicated.

Apart from giving authorities this feedback IA is interested in

the results to assess
whether there are any changes that should be considered to help
the data standardisation
process, particularly in the matching of data and the resolution
of issues. The
findings will be shared with the MoJ.

If you wish to take advantage of this free service we will

require a file containing
the Register of Electors unique reference and the NLPG UPRN that
is matched to that
unique reference. The file can also include the address elements
from the RoE as
an optional extra. Please send this file to [2]core@intelligent-
addressing.co.uk.
In return for data we will send all participating local
authorities a report via
email. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact
Catherine Teare
on 020 7747 3500.

[1] mailto:core@intelligent-addressing.co.uk
[2] mailto:core@intelligent-addressing.co.uk

**7. NLPG NSG Annual Conference and Exemplar Awards - Date

Change**
Following discussions with potential delegates, it has been
decided to keep the
annual NLPG NSG conference to a one day event rather than two
days. This will reduce
the costs for attending the event as delegates will no longer
have to stay overnight
in London. We have been advised that in these difficult
economic times, this would
make the event more attractive for local authority attendees.
The event will now
take place on Thursday November 26th, at the Victoria Park Plaza
Hotel in London.

**8. Case Studies**

A number of case studies have recently been published outlining
the importance of
LLPGs in enabling local authorities to work more innovatively
and productively.
These initiatives are under-pinned by the LLPGs.

Publictechnology.net has recently published a case study on Kent

Connects [1]www.kentconnects.gov.uk,
a finalist in the Government Excellence: Team category at the e-
Government National
Awards 2008.

Close to collapse two years ago, a strategic review led to a new

vision and objectives.
Kent & Medway's ICT infrastructure is now bigger, more
secure,more joined up
and cheaper to run. Public services are more accessible and
efficient, and its
workforce more flexible and collaborative. View the full story
at [2]www.publictechnology.net

Publictechnology.net has also recently published a case study on

from the London
Borough of Brent, a finalist in the e-Government Excellence
Innovation in strategy
at a local level.

[3]Brent Council's Data Excellence Project aims to place the

council at the forefront
of best practice in local authority data management. It has
adopted a dual strategy
of focussing on customer data integration via the Client Index
initiative (which
is now the most extensive UK local government CDI project) and
internal Information
Management (using new data governance/security security models,
data sharing and
an IPSV based taxonomy to radically change the way the council
looks after its information
assets). The new approaches are already beginning to demonstrate
the improved customer
service and efficiency savings that were key objectives of the
project.

All ALOs LLPG and LSG custodians should have received, by now, a
copy of the [4]'Underpinning
Transformational Government - everything happens somewhere'
case studies booklet
from the 2008 NLPG NSG Exemplar Awards. Please contact
[5]lbrown@intelligent-addressing.co.uk
with any feedback, or if you would like any additional copies.

[1] http://www.kentconnects.gov.uk/home
[2] http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19375
[3] http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19346
[4] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1232541532195.pdf
[5] mailto:lbrown@intelligent-addressing.co.uk

**9. New Managing Director at IDeA**

Paul Roberts OBE has been appointed as the new managing director
of the Improvement
and Development Agency from April. He replaces Lucy De Groot,
who spent five years
at the helm.

Mr Roberts is currently director of strategy at the IDeA and

will lead the organisation
working closely with John Hayes who will have an expanded role
as director of services
and development.

**10. IA Appoints Two Associate Directors**

Intelligent Addressing has appointed Kate de Groot and Roger
Wong-Moon as Associate
Directors of the company's operational board of management.

These appointments strengthen the company's commitment to

quality and business processes
 in response to greater demand for IA consultancy services in the
wake of continued
and widespread adoption of the NLPG as a central source of
addresses for national
projects such as FiReControl and CORE.

Kate has worked as a geographic information consultant

specialising in business
analysis, strategy, information management, data analysis and
spatial data standards.
She has a wide range of experience across public and private
sectors, specifically
utilities, government, environment, market analysis, and
research. She has been
working at IA, initially as a consultant and latterly as a full
time employee, since
2005.

Roger, who is Head of Information Systems, will now take on a

more strategic role
at Intelligent Addressing to advise on the creation of
information systems in support
of both consultancy services and internal processes relating to
IA's custodianship
of both the NLPG and the NSG. Recent ISO accreditation was also
an important driver
behind Roger's appointment. Roger recently completed his MSc in
Information Systems
and has worked at IA since 2002.

**11. Changes Following New Unitary Data Structure**

Following the restructuring of a number of Authorities and the
creation of nine
new Unitary Organisations a number of attributes within NLPG
records will be amended
to reflect the changes ([1]see details); the changes will be
made automatically
at the NLPG hub as part of the existing change only update
supply. No additional
action is required by organisations receiving updates.

Organisations in receipt of updates may however wish to contact

their software suppliers
to ensure there will be no validation / integrity issues. We are
happy to liaise
directly with software vendors if they wish to contact the NLPG
on 020 7747 3502.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1237976797788.pdf

**12. New Unitary Codes**

As from April 1st 2009, and following the restructuring of the
new unitary authorities,
the distribution of data referring to the subsumed authorities
will no longer be
distributed from the NLPG hub. The data from a total of 47
authorities will have
been merged into nine new Unitaries:

*LAid 0235 Bedford Unitary

LAid 0240 Central Bedfordshire
LAid 0660 Cheshire East
LAid 0665 Cheshire West and Chester
LAid 0840 Cornwall
LAid 1355 Durham
LAid 2935 Northumberland
LAid 3245 Shropshire
LAid 3940 Wiltshire

*Note LAid is the Local Authority Identification Code.

A complete list of the new Unitary Authorities and the subsumed
authorities can
be seen [1]here.

[1] http://www.iahub.net/docs/1237969606282.doc

[NLPG]
**1. Important FTP IP Address Changes**
Intelligent Addressing is making some enhancements to its
technical infrastructure
on the evening of Friday 24th April 2009; this will mean the FTP
IP address for
the NLPG server will change. This may require your IT department
to make a small
configuration change to allow you to continue to access the NLPG
FTP server at
a new address. To allow you to plan the configuration change our
FTP server will
be available on both the new (195.171.25.164) and old
(195.171.101.179) IP address
for a changeover period of 4 weeks; from Friday April 24th 2009
to Friday May 22nd
2009.

Please ensure that the details below are provided to your IT

Department in preparation
for this change.

**Please note** The date has changed since the last Ezine.

In addition, Intelligent Addressing has an emergency backup

connection at 87.86.8.148.
 This will only be used if there are severe problems with our
normal Internet services,
and you will be informed by IA if it is to be used. Please add
this address to your
firewall permissions as this will speed things up if the backup
connection ever
does need to be used.

FTP Access from April 24th - May 22nd 2009 (New and old IP
address, hostnames resolve
to new IP address):

ftp.nlpg.org.ukresolves to 195.171.25.164
195.171.25.164direct
195.171.101.179Valid until May 22nd 2009

Emergency backup ftp site: 87.86.8.148 - this will only become

accessible if IA
experience a major disruption to its internet service.

If you have any questions please contact the helpdesk on 020

7747 3502 or email
[1]helpdesk@intelligent-addressing.co.uk.

[1] mailto:helpdesk@intelligent-addressing.co.uk

**2. Access to the NLPG Secure Site**

From April 1st 2009 access to the NLPG secure website pages will
no longer be available
to users of authorities merging into new unitaries. Usernames
and passwords allocated
under the old authority codes will be deleted from the system
and users transferring
to the new unitaries should contact their ALO to request access
under the new codes.

**3. User Guides**

User guides for the NLPG search site and the NLPG for the
emergency services are
now available on the [1]NLPG web site.

[1] http://www.nlpg.org.uk

[NSG]
**1. Important FTP IP Address Changes**
Intelligent Addressing is making some enhancements to its
technical infrastructure
on the evening of Friday 24th April 2009; this will mean the FTP
IP address for
the NSG server will change. This may require your IT department
to make a small
configuration change to allow you to continue to access the NSG
FTP server at a
new address. To allow you to plan the configuration change our
FTP server will be
available on both the new (195.171.25.164) and old
(195.171.101.179) IP address
for a changeover period of 4 weeks; from Friday April 24th 2009
to Friday May 22nd
2009.

Please ensure that the details below are provided to your IT

Department in preparation
for this change.

**Please note** The date has changed since the last Ezine.

In addition, Intelligent Addressing has an emergency backup

connection at 87.86.8.148.
This will only be used if there are severe problems with our
normal Internet services,
and you will be informed by IA if it is to be used. Please add
this address to your
firewall permissions as this will speed things up if the backup
connection ever
does need to be used.

FTP Access from April 24th - May 22nd 2009 (New and old IP
address, hostnames resolve
to new IP address):

ftp.thensg.org.ukresolves to 195.171.25.164
195.171.25.164direct
195.171.101.179Valid until May 22nd 2009

Emergency backup ftp site: 87.86.8.148 - this will only become

accessible if IA
experience a major disruption to its internet service.
 If you have any questions please contact the helpdesk on 020
7747 3502 or email
[1]helpdesk@intelligent-addressing.co.uk.

[1] mailto:helpdesk@intelligent-addressing.co.uk

**2. Access to the NSG Secure Site**

From April 1st 2009 access to the NSG secure website pages will
no longer be available
to users of authorities merging into new unitaries. Usernames
and passwords allocated
under the old authority codes will be deleted from the system
and users transferring
to the new unitaries should contact their ALO to request access
under the new codes.

**3. NSG Uploads**

Despite many authorities going through system upgrades to meet
the April 6th deadline,
submissions to the hub continue to remain high and March has
seen yet another increase
in the number of authorities that have successfully submitted to
the NSG CSV Hub.

We are also very pleased to have seen so many people us the

DTF7.1 hub for data
testing through March. In April we have been informed that some
authorities may
not be able to submit in the new DTF7.1. We would however
encourage everyone to
re-establish monthly submissions. As of April 2009 we are no
longer able to receive
submissions directly to the hub in DTF CSV. If you require any
assistance with your
upload during this month please contact the Helpdesk in the
first instance [1]helpdesk@intelligent-addressing.co.uk
or call 0207 747 3502.

[1] mailto:helpdesk@intelligent-addressing.co.uk

**4. DTF7.1**
As you are aware the new NSG in DTF7.1 will be published on
April 6th 2009. From
April submission the NSG will only be able to accept files in
the new format. All
data in the hub will be upscaled and published in the new DTF7.1
for downloaders
to use. If you are unable to make a submission in the new DTF7.1
and would like
to discuss alternatives please do not hesitate to contact the
helpdesk.
 Please keep an eye on the [1]NSG website for further information
in particular the
following documents:

LGIH EToN 5.01 Implementation Letter

DTF 7.1 DRAFT Upload and Validate DTF 7.1 to the NSG Hub
DTF 7.1 Submission Compliance Check Specification
National Street Gazetteer Data Entry Conventions Document (DEC-
NSG)
National Street Gazetteer DTF 7.1 Specification
New Unitary Authority LSG Transition Plan

[1] http://www.thensg.org.uk

**5. EToN 5**

EToN 5.0 came into effect from January 12th 2009. Thank you to
all of you that managed
to submit your EToN 5.0 ODD files. We are continuing to receive
more EToN 5.0 files
each month. If you are still creating your EToN5.0 file and
would like the NSG team
to test the data, please submit the EToN 5 ODD file with your
full LSG submission
via the [1]NSG website or email us directly.

[1] http://www.thensg.org.uk

**6. NSG Ftp**

ALOs and NSG Custodians should now have access to the NSG Ftp
Site. We hope you
are finding this useful. The current data is still the February
Health Checks, along
with your LSG Improvement Schedule and Updated mapping
submissions. If you are finding
the information useful please let us know so that we can
continue to establish the
ftp site as a key location for sending out information.

**7. Regional Meetings**

Regional Chairs will be arranging Regional Meetings over the
next few months. Currently
there are no meetings planned, but dates, when they are
arranged, will be announced
by your regional chair and advertised in the Ezine.

North East - TBC

Yorkshire & Humberside Region - TBC
West Midlands Region -TBC
North West - TBC
East of England - TBC
Wales - TBC
Regional Meetings that have already taken place:
East Midlands
London
South East
South West