In today’s data-driven world, address information is one of the most valuable assets organisations can harness. From locating a customer to planning infrastructure, delivering a parcel or managing risk, every sector relies on accurate and consistent addressing. Yet despite its importance, many organisations struggle with fragmented, inconsistent or outdated data.

At CentremapsLive, we believe that access to reliable address data should be simple, intuitive and universally available. That’s why we’re excited to announce the inclusion of Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase on our platform, complete with built-in geocoding services to connect addresses with precise geographic coordinates.

This addition represents more than just a new dataset. It unlocks the full potential of addressing, helping professionals across industries to search smarter, work faster and make better-informed decisions.

Why Address Data Matters

The impact of unlocking addressing power can be seen across sectors:

• Architecture, Design & Planning: Accurate address data supports site identification, feasibility studies and planning applications by ensuring properties are referenced correctly at every stage of development.
• Building Services & Utilities: Linking assets to verified addresses helps service providers reduce errors, streamline maintenance, and ensure compliance across energy, water, and telecoms infrastructure.
• Construction & Contracting: From managing sites under development to tracking new-build properties, AddressBase ensures contractors have up-to-date, authoritative information for effective project delivery.
• Facilities Management & Maintenance: Verified address records enable efficient scheduling of inspections, repairs, and ongoing asset management across large property portfolios.
• Health & Safety / Risk Management: Geocoded address data underpins accurate risk assessments for insurers, consultants, and safety managers, ensuring every property is correctly located and categorised.
• Transport, Logistics & Delivery: Reliable address data reduces delivery failures, optimises routing, and supports supply chain efficiency — critical for keeping projects and services on schedule.
• Public Services & Local Authorities: Councils and government bodies can deliver services more effectively, from waste collection to emergency response, by working with a unified, consistent address dataset.

The common thread is the need for accurate, trusted and easily accessible address data. Without it, organisations face duplication, inefficiency and errors. With it, they gain the clarity and confidence needed to make decisions that are timely, cost-effective and aligned with customer and community needs. No matter the industry, address data provides the foundation for smarter decisions and better outcomes.

Introducing AddressBase on CentremapsLive
To meet this demand, CentremapsLive has integrated Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase, the most authoritative address dataset for Great Britain. By consolidating information from local authorities, Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey, AddressBase provides a single point of truth for addressing, ensuring consistency across sectors and systems.

Key features include:

• Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs): A unique identifier for every addressable location, from new developments to historic properties. Definitively identify properties for submissions to government or local authorities, or to link information such as EPC certificates.
• Lifecycle data: Track properties through planning, construction, occupation and demolition.
• Comprehensive coverage: From residential homes to commercial buildings, public facilities and even sites under development.
• Geocoding services: Every address is matched with an exact geographic coordinate, enabling spatial analysis, mapping and integration with other datasets.
• Accuracy: Search and identify exact locations to the metre.
• Identify: Categorise addresses (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial) around a location for risk or opportunity assessments.
• Obtain a cleaned version of an address: Resolving data entry errors and variations to ensure consistency.
• Bulk cleanse and geocode asset lists: Ensuring records are accurate, verified and mapped correctly.

By bringing AddressBase into our interface, CentremapsLive allows users to tap into these capabilities in a simple, downloadable form that can be used directly within their relevant software. This means professionals can incorporate authoritative address and geocoding data into their existing workflows without disruption, whether for asset management, customer databases or logistics systems.

The power of geocoding

One of the most transformative aspects of AddressBase is its ability to geocode every address, connecting the written address to its exact position on the map.

For logistics, this means more efficient routing and fewer failed deliveries. For planners, it means precise identification of development sites. For emergency services, it means faster, more reliable location information in critical situations and for organisations managing customer data, it means every record can be anchored to a consistent geographic reference.

Geocoding turns addresses into actionable intelligence, giving organisations across industries a new level of accuracy and efficiency.

Supporting Professionals Through Barbour Product Search

As part of the Barbour Product Search community, we are committed to supporting professionals with the tools they need to succeed. The inclusion of AddressBase on CentremapsLive reflects that commitment, offering a resource that cuts across sectors and disciplines, while maintaining the quality and reliability our users expect.

Looking Ahead

Address data is not static - it evolves as our built environment grows and changes. At CentremapsLive, we will continue to invest in new datasets, services and innovations that keep pace with this evolution. From supporting smart cities to enhancing infrastructure planning, the future of addressing is one of integration, intelligence and accessibility.

For now, we are proud to make the power of addressing available to our users, providing direct access to the UK’s most definitive address dataset, combined with geocoding services, all within the CentremapsLive interface.

Find Out More

To learn more about AddressBase and geocoding on CentremapsLive — and how address data can benefit your organisation, visit CentremapsLive.co.uk or contact today.