The National Address Gazetteer is a database designed to provide a definitive source of publicly owned spatial address data for Great Britain.{{cite web , title=National Address Gazetteer , url=https://data.gov.uk/dataset/national-address-gazetteer , website=data.gov.uk , access-date=31 December 2019 It is a culmination of Local Land and Property Gazetteers (collectively known as the

National Land and Property Gazetteer The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) is an initiative in England and Wales to provide a definitive and consistent address infrastructure. Up until recently Great Britain has not held a single list of all addresses in the country, meaning ...

(NLPG)) and other datasets: Address Layer 2 (AL2) and Royal Mail PAF data. The LLPGs, which make up a portion of the data, are created and maintained with input from all

local authorities Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...

in England and Wales. Following the setting up of GeoPlace, NLPG data has been brought together with Ordnance Survey, Valuation Office Agency and Royal Mail data into the National Address Gazetteer infrastructure. The National Address Gazetteer infrastructure is the single source from which the AddressBase products from Ordnance Survey are developed. Through agreement between Ordnance Survey and Scotland’s Improvement Service, working on behalf of Scottish Local Government, the National Address Gazetteer includes Scottish address data. GeoPlace is an organisation (LLP) that oversees the production and maintenance of the National Address Gazetteer. GeoPlace is joint owned by the

Local Government Association The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national membership body for local authorities. Its core membership is made up of 339 English councils and the 22 Welsh councils through the Welsh Local Government Association. The LGA is p ...

and Ordnance Survey.

History

At the creation of the National Address Gazetteer in autumn 2011, the dataset only included spatial address data for England and Wales. However, through agreement with Scotland's Improvement Service Company, coverage is extended to include Scotland.

References

External links

GeoPlace

Local Government Association (LGA)

National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG)

National Street Gazetteer (NSG)
Gazetteers Geographic information systems Databases in England Geography of England Databases in Wales Geography of Wales Geographical databases in the United Kingdom