Gazetteer survey to go public
- Posted:
- 00:00 06 Jun 2002
The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) will underpin the National Land Information Service (NLIS) - an online search facility for land and property information.
The u-turn comes less than a month after address data experts criticised Intelligent Addressing - the supplier helping local authorities to feed data into the system - for refusing to reveal details of an internal survey which matched the NLPG against Land Registry records.
Intelligent Addressing claimed that the NLPG achieved a 97% match rate in the exercise. However, last month software suppliers and local authority IT professionals claimed that 20% of the data in the NLPG could be inaccurate. Both Intelligent Addressing and joint NLIS project leader Local Government Information House denied this.
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Michael Nicholson, chairman of Intelligent Addressing, said, "The NLPG is subject to a rigorous process of quality control. As a result of this process, a comprehensive report on the quality of the NLPG, which will include comparisons with other datasets, is to be published imminently."
