National Address Gazetteer Event Announced For 6th October 2011

Woking, Surrey 26^th July 2011 – Gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets are pleased to announce a new, free of charge event designed to provide both the public and private sector with information about the National Address Gazetteer.

Scheduled for Thursday 6^th October 2011 at Hammersmith Town Hall in London, the event will comprise two sections, with section one dealing with the question, ‘What is the National Address Gazetteer’ and section two looking at ‘How to use the National Address Gazetteer’.

There will be presentations from GeoPlace, who are the custodians of the National Address Gazetteer, explaining how this single, definitive source of national address data will be formed, what the data will comprise and it’s relevance to all public and private sector organisations.

There will also be a presentation from a leading local authority that will explain how the bulk of the address data is created.  This will demonstrate how the National Address Gazetteer will be updated daily and benefit from hundreds of people in the local government community whose sole responsibility is to maintain its accuracy and integrity.

Presentations will then be given on ways that organisations can make use of the National Address Gazetteer, including examples of real-life situations in which its use as this single, definitive source, throughout an organisation, can facilitate real efficiencies, shared services and a far higher level of joined up working.

Also scheduled for the autumn is the latest in the series of Gazetteer Best Practice Days, which will be on 29^th September in Stirling.  It will see presentations and debate from across the Scottish gazetteer community including local government, the emergency services, Scottish Government and the private sector.

Speaking of the forthcoming events, managing director of Aligned Assets, Dinesh Thanigasalam said, “The National Address Gazetteer is probably the biggest thing to ever occur in the gazetteer community.  It’s got the potential to create huge savings and far higher levels of efficiency, not just for public sector organisations such as the NHS, emergency services and central government, for whom it will be available free of charge, but also to private sector organisations such as the utilities, banking and insurance.”

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Rutland County Council Set to Make Savings with New Gazetteer Management System

Woking, Surrey 6^th July 2011 – Rutland County Council is set to dramatically increase efficiency with a new gazetteer management system from Aligned Assets.

Symphony iManage, the gazetteer management system in use by over 100 sites across the public sector, will be used by Rutland County Council for the management of their Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG), Local Street Gazetteer (LSG) and Associated Street Data (ASD).

In addition to Symphony iManage, they have opted to take the Aligned Assets’ integration module, Symphony iExchange, which will allow them to set up automated exports of their gazetteer data into their back office systems, as well as automate their exports to the national hub.

The first integration to be established using Symphony iExchange, and one regarded as a ‘key system’, was to their Northgate (iLAP) planning systems.   By synchronising these systems with the gazetteer, Rutland County Council have created a scenario through which changes to their LLPG are automatically exported in DTF 7.3, enabling the planning, building control and land charges departments to all be using the most up to date address data available.

Symphony iExchange will allow Rutland County Council to establish an unlimited amount of integrations, with each one uniquely tailored to the recipient system/department.

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Merseyside Fire & Rescue Choose Aligned Assets for their Corporate Gazetteer

Woking, Surrey 29 th June 2011 – Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service is pushing forward in the post-FiReControl environment with a corporate gazetteer management system from Aligned Assets.

The Symphony Bluelight system will see them building on the work they did during the FiReControl project in matching their existing address data to the NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer) in order to create one definitive gazetteer that will be used throughout the F&RS.

The management component, the Bluelight Gazetteer, will allow them to complement the NLPG data with emergency service specific ‘local records’ and they will be using the Xtended Data Module (XDM) to create additional fields in the gazetteer to direct users to risk information held about a property.

In this phase of the project, all this data is being made available via SinglePoint, which will give every member of the F&RS the ability to search on the corporate gazetteer and show the results via a Geographical Information System (GIS).

This process will give all users the opportunity to become familiar with the NLPG, whilst the feedback gained will be used to enhance the gazetteer even further, with the ability to influence the NLPG directly through the candidate process. SinglePoint also allows easy access to UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers), which are key to Merseyside F&RS’s Site Specific Risk Information process.

Managing Director of Aligned Assets, Dinesh Thanigasalam said, “We have always designed our software with the end user in mind so have ploughed considerable resources into Symphony Bluelight in order to make it the definitive gazetteer management system for the emergency services.”

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Aligned Assets Take NLPG Candidate Processing to the Next Level

Woking, Surrey 21^st June 2011 – The candidate process, which will see the emergency services of England and Wales able to send updates for inclusion in the Country’s most definitive address database, the NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer), is set to be taken to the next level by gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets.

Symphony Bluelight, the gazetteer management system that is already in use across the emergency services, will contain advanced functionality that is not available from any other supplier and with it the options that will prove essential to the day-to-day operations of the emergency services.

The procedure that other gazetteer management systems on the market will use involves the emergency service identifying an inaccurac­y in the NLPG, at which point that inaccuracy will be sent to the National Hub as a candidate record.  At that stage it will be checked before being sent to the local custodian, who will do further checks and then either accept or reject the change.  It will then be returned to the Hub and made available to the emergency services the next time they take a download of the NLPG.

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Aligned Assets Release the UK’s First NAG-Compatible Gazetteer Management System

Woking, Surrey 11^th May 2011 – Gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets can today confirm the development of a prototype of the UK’s first gazetteer management system to be fully compatible with the recently released alpha version of the National Address Gazetteer.

Officially launched at the Emergency Services Gazetteer Best Practice Day in Sheffield, the Symphony Bluelight Gazetteer will enable Fire & Rescue Services, Police Forces and Ambulance Services to fully exploit this definitive, national database of addresses.

With this development, upon the formal release of the National Address Gazetteer BS7666 database, the Symphony Bluelight Gazetteer with be capable of managing all 30 million records in the National Address Gazetteer and will provide a wealth of functionality to give real power to the data. 

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