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The world’s first open address business
https://openaddressesuk.org@openaddressesuk
Contents
- Overview- Growing the data- Multiplying addresses- Smart address input- Questions
Overview
In the UK addresses are currently a closed asset owned by private and public sector institutions.
Open Addresses make address data available for everyone to use for free, build a community to maintain it, and create paid-for services to fund it.
Open Addresses is wholly owned by the not-for-profit Open Data Institute.
Maintain
Publish
Gather
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Benefits Social and economic value Speed and quality
We estimate that opening up UK addresses will create yearly social and economic value of >£110m as
more people will use them
We will reduce the time it takes for one of the UK’s 130,000 new
addresses per year to get published from months to days
New businesses and services Efficiency
Resolvable identifiers will allow new businesses and services
to be created through linked data
We will provide address services that are cheaper and simpler for service
providers to use, integrate and maintain
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How people will use the services● To enter free-format addresses● To correct bad data● To locate addresses● To supplement other data● To create new services
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How we gather dataAlpha Beta Live
Bulk open datasets, crowdsourcing
Large, closed datasets?
Statistical & geospatial inference
Collaborative maintenance
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Collaborative maintenance
The more users on the platform the higher the quality of the data
Service providers and users automatically produce information about new and existing addresses as they use the services.
Our algorithms weight this data to improve the data and service.
AddressBase
PAF
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How we will grow the user base
With sponsorship we can grow the user base faster by extending free trialist services
Alpha Beta Live
Open/geo community
Social comms
Commercial trialists
Mainstream media
Public sector trialists
Technology media
Paying customers
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TeamJeni Tennison - Exec Director Steven Feldman - Non-Exec
Jeni is one of the UK’s open data pioneers. She is a Director of the Open Data Institute, a
member of multiple Government data advisory boards and chairs a W3C working
group
Through Steven’s consultancy KnowWhere, he works as a non-executive director, a strategic
consultant and an investor, advisor and mentor to technology startups
Andy Hird - Non-Exec Dr Mike Sanderson - Non-Exec
Andy is Managing Director of Aligned Assets Limited, the UK’s largest independent Address Management and gazetteer solution providers
Mike is the Director of Strategy at 1Spatial, a company which provides software and solutions to
manage large spatial data. He is is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Business School and a
mentor on the Judge Business School’s Ignite programme
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Contents
- Overview- Growing the data- Multiplying addresses- Smart address input- Questions
Data: changing needsAs we build an authoritative, definitive dataset we expected data needs to change over time
Existing open datasets and inference to tackle the bulk of the challenge “80/20” rule
Ongoing, collaborative maintenance
Targetted work. Low-volume records to fill existing gaps in available datasets
NB: dates are “just for fun”https://openaddressesuk.org
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Data: changing needs
But IPR got in the way of existing open datasets
Many are not really open
Ask me about digital cholera :-(
We had to adapt our plans…..
Contents
- Overview- Growing the data- Multiplying addresses- Smart address input- Questions
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Same postcode? We cannot know!
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How can you help?
I’ve seen the future...
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● Map: sourced from OS Street View
● Yellow dots: street mid lines (from OS Locator)
● Blue lines: street geometry (from OS VectorMap District combined with OS Meridian 2 and OS Locator)
● Red dots: postcode centroids (from ONS’ Postcode Directory).
● Red hatched area: street buffer zone 25m either side of the street mid line (calculated)
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● Map: sourced from OS Street View
● Yellow dots: street mid lines (from OS Locator)
● Blue lines: street geometry (from OS VectorMap District combined with OS Meridian 2 and OS Locator)
● Black lines: Land Registry’s INSPIRE Index Polygons
● Red dots: postcode centroids (from ONS’ Postcode Directory).
● Green rectangles: street bounding boxes (from OS Locator)
● Red hatched area: street buffer zone 25m either side of the street mid line (calculated)
Note: the extra features are available thanks to the Land Registry’s open data offering for England and Wales.
Contents
- Overview- Growing the data- Multiplying addresses- Smart address input- Questions
The Open Addresses platformOur aim is to build a sustainable model like this. The value is in an authoritative and definitive dataset which is collaboratively maintained.
Authoritative and definitive UK address list- where the address data is safe to use- where each record has confidence and provenance
Bulk - Download- Upload
APIs- Add- Parse- Validate- Search
URLs- Linked data- Extensibility
Service Providers - Aggregators, digital, telecoms, public sector, distribution, academics, manufacturers etc
Services - Websites,
Users - The people who use the services
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The (lack of a) network effectWe have one million high-confidence addresses [*] so it looks more like this. Despite the collaborative maintenance we lack authoritative and hence little chance of becoming definitive
Authoritative and definitive UK address list- where the address data is safe to use- where each record has confidence and provenance
Bulk - Download- Upload
APIs- Add- Parse- Validate- Search
URLs- Linked data- Extensibility
Few Service Providers - Aggregators, digital,telecoms, public sector, distribution, academics, manufacturers etc
Services - Websites,
Few Users - The people who use the services
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Building BlocksIf we drill into the platform we see something interesting. The building blocks for addresses are creating value in our address list. Can we build a value proposition from this?
Bulk - Download- Upload
APIs- Add- Parse- Validate- Search
URLs- Linked data- Extensibility
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Building Blocks- towns, postcodes, streets- used to parse data and provide
confidence in the address list- links between towns, postcodes
and streets are learned from addresses
Authoritative and definitive UK address list
- where the address data is safe to use
- where each record has confidence and provenanceR
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Smart address inputOne of the needs that building blocks can support is improving address entry on websites
This can meet user needs, provide value to service providers and provide clean addresses for the address list. Win! Win! Win!
We are building a proof-of-concept…..
It will give people less of this
Giff Gaff on desktop
Hungry House on mobile
The Jigsaw Puzzle Club
Lots of fields
Exceptions
BIG dropdown lists
And more of this
Citymapper
Google Maps
Suggestions, simpler experience, higher completion rate
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- Overview- Growing the data- Multiplying addresses- Smart address input- Questions
Any questionsHopefully the first one is “how can I help?” :)
As a service provider As a developer / open data advocate / geospatial expert
Think of how you would use our services and let us know Add more ideas or add “ready to load” datasets https://trello.com/b/UXqgc1wy/datasets
Become a Beta trialist for the APIs Visualise and explore the current bulk download: https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/data
Let us know if you have data you are willing to contribute Comment on our algorithms: https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/blog/2015/02/12/inference https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/blog/2015/02/20/confidence
Let us know if you would be willing to sponsor us whilst we grow Try our APIs: https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/about/apidocu
mailto:[email protected] Contribute some code: https://github.com/OpenAddressesUK
Join the forums: https://github.com/OpenAddressesUK/forum
Open Addresses is building an open address database for the UK.
It will be open and available to all, helping people, companies, non-profits and government work together to create a better service for everyone.
Offices
Where?