AddressBase Premium gazetteer for emergency services

As gazetteer experts, we provide the market leading tools for emergency services to access the most accurate and comprehensive address dataset available, Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase Premium, helping them to drive efficiencies, reduce response times and therefore save more lives.

Due to the complexity of the OS AddressBase Premium dataset, a flexible gazetteer solution is required to access, maintain and share the addresses. Our AddressBase Premium gazetteer (Bluelight) is the most functionally rich and advanced gazetteer available, allowing users to store officially recognised British Standard BS7666 address data centrally, while sharing data across the whole organisation. It can be combined with any of our software modules to provide the full gazetteer solution that is right for you.

Seamless integration

Having worked closely with the major suppliers of operational systems to the emergency services, our solution will integrate seamlessly with all major public sector systems, allowing you to enjoy the very best address management solution available with the operational system of your choice. All the resulting automated processes reduce the need for manual intervention, and therefore duplication of effort, saving time and money.

Fast, accurate address search

Using state-of-the art technology, REST web services, our cloud-based address search and lookup module (Symphony Search), is fast, accurate, resilient and secure. Using AddressBase Premium it utilises the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) as the address anchor.  Searching across any element of a British Standard BS7666 address, your staff and/or third party operational systems can perform sub-second, predictive searches across the whole of GB.

Searches are driven across three or more servers (as opposed to the standard one), so it’s highly resilient and scalable, enabling ultra-rapid searching for mass users running hundreds of searches per second. It’s also highly secure using the most innovative and sophisticated technology for preventing hacking, audit tracking of searches and denial of service attacks.

For those organisations using Esri ArcGIS, our integration solution Esri ArcGIS Search Locator, will allow you to search an address directly from Esri ArcGIS using the address data held in our AddressBase Premium gazetteer.

Adding local data

Our gazetteer solution allows you to add any relevant physical feature or location that’s not recorded on the national AddressBase Premium dataset. Each feature/location is allocated a UPRN and is only accessible by the emergency service.  These are often locations where, crime, fire or accidents occur but are not related to a specific commercial or residential building, such as land, natural or man-made features, or street junctions, roads and paths.

Recording and sharing location and spatial data

Using the Xtended Data Manager (XDM), emergency services can record any location specific information against any British Standard BS7666 address, such as known risk factors, vulnerability of residents or spatial boundary information specific to the emergency service.

Our data engine, Location Manager will organise all your location and spatial data from all the different systems and publish tailored versions of this in any format to any user. Location data could include risks, while spatial data may be administrative areas, flood zones, no-go areas or specific risk zones which are usually published as map files. Both the location and spatial data can then be visualised on a smart device in augmented reality through our AR app.

Enhanced business data

We further enhance the already extensive set of addresses by merging this with business names data supplied by 118 Information. This is focused on business properties which change on a regular basis. Because this data is tracked more extensively by specialist firm, 118 Information, it gives emergency services an extra edge when responding to incidents involving commercial properties.

Tailoring our solution

As a modular solution, we can tailor our AddressBase Premium gazetteer to meet your specific needs. Powerful and easy to use, our solution is implemented by over half the Fire and Rescue Services and Police Forces in Great Britain, as well as Ambulance Services, helping them to achieve back office efficiencies, reduced response times and therefore better safeguarding of the public.

You can either subscribe to our AddressBase Premium gazetteer to manage and maintain in-house yourself, or we can do all of that for you as a hosted cloud based solution.

The full AddressBase Premium gazetteer is mapped out below. Any permutation of this can be selected to meet your requirements.