Information Location

Manchester Geomatics have a comprehensive track record in providing address quality assurance consultancy and tools.

Address capture, interpretation, verification and matching lie at the heart of all of our services and products for two reasons:

• Addresses are the key to unlocking detailed local social and economic statistical information.
• Addresses and address quality are also essential for service delivery. For example, staff may be given an address where they have to supply a service, but finding the building it refers to, finding a previous history of the address and the area around it, identifying the most appropriate point from which it should be serviced and identifying areas of high and low demand for the service may be beyond the scope of most conventional information systems. Yet each of these affects the cost of providing the service and may inform its future management.

Our Information Location products and services help you to:

• Improve the content of your address lists and other spatial data holdings to increase the efficiency and integration of your service delivery and to enable the consolidation and standardisation of your spatial data repositories
• Respond more quickly and effectively to changes by analysing significant events in socio-economic data spatially and over time using our custom geographies.

MGL provides the following tools and services:

• Address cleansing service that comprehensively audits and corrects existing address registers. Read more about AQuA - our Address Quality Audits.
• Data capture and verification tools to support the management and improvement of spatial assets. These include geocoding, address matching and data aggregation and re-aggregation.
• LLPG and NSG maintenance tool to support the compilation, storage and dissemination of street and address registers. Read more about our address maintenance tools.
• Specifically designed geographically stable units, unique to MGL, that are better suited than standard geographies for collating, aggregating and reporting socio-economic data. Read more in the Manchester Pathfinder case study.
• Bespoke spatial analysis, such as mapping and analysing your customers or employees locations

MGL team members have been involved in address related work for almost 25 years, with a substantial track record; proven in a series of Joined-Up-Geography research projects, and several major address quality audits.

MGL staff have taken a prominent role in the AGI Addressing Special Interest Group and are members of the DNF Experts Group.

Please contact Ed Scrase for more information.