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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
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
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
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
How people will use the services● To enter free-format addresses
● To correct bad data
● To locate addresses
● To link data together
● To create new services
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
How we gather data
Alpha Beta Live
Bulk open datasets, crowdsourcing
Large, closed datasets?
Statistical & geospatial inference
Collaborative maintenance
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
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
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
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
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
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”
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@peterkwells
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
We’re both growing data and growing a network….
ZE“view fae shona and peters”, (C) Peter MacKinnon, licensed under CC-BY 2.0.
What about nos.
1 to 4? Same
postcode? We
cannot know!
Fogralea
ZE1 0SE
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Fogralea, Sound, ZE1 0SE
● 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)
Meadow Lane, Chester, CH4 7BH
● 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.
Collaborative maintenance
The more users on the platform the higher the quality
Service providers and users
automatically produce information about
new and existing addresses as they use
the services.
Our algorithms automagically weight
this information to improve the service.
AddressBase
PAF
https://openaddressesuk.org
@peterkwells
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
Bulk APIs URLs
Service Providers
Services - Websites,
Users
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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
Bulk APIs URLs
Few Service Providers
Services - Websites,
Few Users
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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?
APIsBulk URLs
Valu
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Building Blocks- towns
- postcodes
- streets
- and the links between them...
Authoritative and definitive
UK address list
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Smart address input
One 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
Burn your select tags: https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=CUkMCQR4TpY
And more of this
Citymapper
High digital confidence/ skills
users like suggestions.
We have a PoC...
Low digital confidence/skills users like to
just type. Do the hard work….http://sorting-office.openaddressesuk.org
“is this what you meant?”(Dev/Alpha language at the mo…)
Smart address input
It can be delivered with a small address list
It can handle “digital cholera”
It helps users
It helps services providers
It helps build a public good
How you can helpAs 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 Load some data:
http://turbot.openaddressesuk.org/
Let us know if you have data you are willing to contribute Visualise and explore the current bulk download:
https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/data
Let us know if you would be willing to sponsor us whilst we grow Comment on our algorithms:
https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/blog/2015/02/12/inference
https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/blog/2015/02/20/confidence
mailto:[email protected] Try our APIs:
https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/about/apidocu
Contribute some code: https://github.com/OpenAddressesUK
Join the forums: https://github.com/OpenAddressesUK/forum