OS Mastermap^® Address Layer - How to use it

The Address Layer establishes the link between addressable and non-addressable properties and all geographic information, including:

• Topography
• Transport networks
• Imagery
• Height
• Boundaries
• Land use
• Geospatial information

The Address Layer is a fundamental tool in asset management. It meets the needs of businesses providing essential doorstep services – gas, water, electricity and telecommunications – and the need to relate a customer or property to the support infrastructures in the street.

Utility providers are able to quickly identify customers affected by interrupted services by correlating faulty infrastructure with properties supported by those infrastructures. Fire, ambulance and police services are able to instantly identify an address location to increase their response times in emergency situations.

The Address Layer is compatible with all other OS MasterMap layers, making it a powerful tool in managing insurance risk or in analysing the environmental impacts of new engineering developments such as road building or the development of waste-disposal sites.

OS MasterMap Address Layer is the most powerful land and property management tool available in Great Britain, coupling the precise location of addressable properties and a unique referencing system for non-addressable properties.