Dear All
A colleague (Nicola Wood) at the Improvement and Development Agency has
passed me a copy of the email below as I have direct dealings with the NLPG
project. For information Nicola manages the IDeA Local Government Rights in
Data Working Group.
The IDeA have been tasked under the Information Age Concordat (7/1999) to
help local authorities developed the data, network and legal infrastructure
for electronic service delivery. The National Land and Property Gazetteer
(NLPG) project referred to below is creating the core referencing dataset
(80% of LA data is held spatially) for local government. Indeed this
dataset will be exploited in order that NLPG becomes the core reference
across Government and the Private Sector as well.
IDeA has recently sent licence agreements to all Street Naming and Numbering
authorities asking them to supply data for creation and maintenance of the
NLPG. In addition IDeA is offering a data matching service through
Intelligent Addressing to assist LAs in creating a Local LPG to feed into
the national dataset. The advantages for LAs are that they will be able to
hold a corporate address dataset to attach service related information to
thus reducing the effort/duplication in maintaining disparate address data.
In addition a Local LPG will provide the reference for citizen centred /
joined up services as per the Modernising Government White Paper.
So far we have approx. 40 LAs signed up to the licence agreements and 100+
authorities involved in the IA data matching process. This level is
increasing daily.
I read between the lines in the email below and sense concerns over data
protection when matching the LA datasets together (ER/CT/NDR etc). We met
with the DPC's office some time ago on this. As long as only the address is
extracted from the dataset and not names then the use is permissible - and
we don't want the names. The DPC's office were extremely supportive of the
project as they saw it as a way to improve the quality of records and reduce
blight by addressing things incorrectly.
I hope that this email clarifies things
Regards
Steven Brandwood
Local Authority Adviser - Information Age Practice
Tel: 0207 296 6615
Fax: 0207 296 6860
Email: [log in to unmask]
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