Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
General:
NLPG:
NSG:
1. The LSG Data Entry Conventions and Best Practice for the NSG
v3: Consultation on Draft Document
2. NSG Validation
3. New LSG Validation, Compliance Checks and Changes to ASD
Codes
4. Submitting Operational District Data Files
5. Monthly Submissions
6. Up and Coming NSG Events
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[General]
**1. Ministry of Justice - CORE Project**
The Electoral Commission has today (29.2.08) accepted the MoJ's
advice to move toward
BS7666 addressing and have made a recommendation for
implementation in Great Britain.
This recommendation now enables the Secretary of State under
the Representative
of the People Act to direct EROs to comply with such standards.
If the recommendation
is accepted, EROs will have until 1st December 2009 to
standardise their addressing
data to BS7666.
[1] mailto:CORE@justice.gsi.gov.uk
[1]
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmcomlo
c/268/26802.htm
The closing date for entries is Friday 18th April 2008. Please
send through an
abstract of 200-300 words describing your project, together with
your contact details
to [1]ggander@intelligent-addressing.co.uk.
[1] mailto:ggander@intelligent-addressing.co.uk
[1] http://www.appsi.gov.uk/recruitment/index.htm
The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and the National
Street Gazetteer
(NSG) are the vehicles for creating unique and unambiguous
identification of land
and property across England and Wales. IA has been appointed by
Local Government
as the National Custodian of the NLPG and NSG databases and
Manager of the national
Hubs.
[1] mailto:sbarlow@intelligent-addressing.co.uk
**9. Wear Valley District Council Seeks LLPG Custodian**
Salary: SO1-SO2 (£23,749 - £27,594) (subject to job evaluation)
You will primarily be engaged in the delivery of the Local Land
and Property Gazetteer
and the corporate Geographical Information System (GIS)
initiatives, such as web
based GIS.
You will be the Custodian of the LLPG. You will promote the
LLPG and its integration
with other Council systems, as the corporate address database.
You will provide
user support, training and advice to the Council's GIS
community.
[1] http://www.wearvalley.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=12622
[1] http://www.aligned-assets.co.uk
[2] mailto:jobs@aligned-assets.co.uk
[NLPG]
**1. Royal Mail Use of NLPG advance Data**
Discussions with the Royal Mail are still ongoing with RM
agreeing in principle
to receive local government SNN data transfer through "NLPG
advance". Further technical
work and testing is to take place before it goes live; in the
meanwhile SNN officers
should continue with their existing internal/external
notification processes until
further notice.
[1] mailto:cteare@intelligent-addressing.co.uk
[NSG]
**1. The LSG Data Entry Conventions and Best Practice for the NSG
v3: Consultation on Draft Document**
The LSG Data Entry Conventions and Best Practice for the NSG v3:
Consultation on
Draft Document
The Regional Chairs LSG Custodian Group invites all users of the
NSG to consider
the draft LSG Data Entry Conventions and Best Practice for the
NSG v3 document -
available at the below link.
The consultation period is now open and will run until the 14th
March. To respond
to this invite please follow the link below to find a letter
explaining the consultation
questionnaire in more detail.
[1] http://www.thensg.org.uk/docs/Consultation.zip
Users will not be able to update LSG or ASD data at all during
the month.
[1] http://www.thensg.org.uk/docs/compliance_check_v2.pdf
Once agreed the final XML schemas will be made available via
[1]www.govtalk.gov.uk
It is very important that they are sent to the NSG hub so that
it can be distributed
via the NSG website prior to the 1st April 2008 go-live date.
When your authority has a compliant ODD file please ONLY send it
to the following
email address [2]ODD@thensg.org.uk
Do NOT send your ODD to any other email address at the NSG hub.
Do NOT copy (CC) to any other NSG or NLPG contact into the e-
mail.
Once your ODD file passes the basic validation the NSG hub will
make them available
to all registered users via the NSG download pages of
[3]www.thensg.org.uk.
[1] http://www.govtalk.gov.uk
[2] mailto:ODD@thensg.org.uk
[3] http://www.thensg.org.uk
**5. Monthly Submissions**
The new regulations require monthly updates of level 3
gazetteers to the NSG hub.
With monthly publications on the download pages.
Over the last 18 months most LSG Custodians will have been
making the updates monthly
before the 10th working day (before the 15th of the month).
Submissions after the 10th working day will not be accepted and
will need to be
made in the following month.
Please note that the set of mandatory files from 1st April 2008
onwards is:
Street File (xxxx_01.csv)
ASD 21 (xxxx_21.csv)
ASD 22 (xxxx_22.csv)
ODD (xxxx_OD.xml)
LSG Custodians will not be able to start testing any data until
all these files
are present in your bin.