
13 August 2007, 10:56am
Cara Reed, Ordnance Survey's senior product manager for addressing data,
talks to Scott Sinclair about how the national mapping agency collects
and represents addressing information.
Cara discusses how Ordnance Survey's addressing data has a huge range of
applications in a wide variety of markets, from local government and
utility companies, to haulage and supermarket delivery services.
OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 is an accurate, detailed and up-to-date
geographic reference base for Great Britain's addressing infrastructure.
It makes up part of the OS MasterMap family, complementing the
Topography, Integrated Transport Network and Imagery Layers.

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Paul Livett
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