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1. 30 Completeness ecseri ieia niente idi ere i ra IN ned dens a dana nda toed 30 Sources of data ice ir erede tie enti add o end n AEE nni Rd d eg neon 30 Annexe A Classification system V2 3 ees ern ER zo s a RNRER UE RATEN SRREERE SS 31 Annexe B Points of Interest provenance uersum nsn nne IR RERR ee rnei Eaa auaa EAEE SRAR ENS ERREEREXASAAR UM EE 43 Annexe C Completeness coding by category esses nennen nennen nnne nnn 45 Annexe D Product and service performance report form ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeneeeeeeeeeenseneenanes 47 v2 7 09 2008 D05300 11 SC Points of Interest user guide contents v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 3 of 59 Preface This user guide hereafter referred to as the guide is designed to provide an overview of Points of Interest hereafter referred to as the product and it gives guidelines and advice on how a customer might derive the maximum benefit from the product It assumes a general knowledge of geographic information If you find an error or omission in this guide or otherwise wish to make a comment or suggestion as to how we can improve the guide please contact us at the address shown below under contact details or complete the Product and service performance report form at annexe D and return it to us Contact details Our Customer Service Centre will be pleased to deal with your enquiries Customer Service Centre Ordnance S
2. ssssssssssssseesenen enne nnne nnns 21 Positional accuracy look up file sss 22 ee nsA arttal se mt 22 Keyword Search file 3 2 1 etti the RE ate ti ann no ete aede an agna e ra nda EAR PEA ties 23 S IS3 liil 23 Descriptive Class reporting file ssssssssssssseeeeenemmen nes 23 Notes on the background of data suppliers sss 24 Media Tormals oc rere nere ete de ere ectetur pa Eden e re ore ee Fa CER E Re eeu V EENE 24 Pricing andlicensing a sioe estes sae EE M IEEE e DID E LI LEE 25 IKE 25 I A 25 Points of Interest user guide contents v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 2 of 59 LICENCE Nctq E 25 Classificaton eee ee ne ee eee ee nee eee 25 Geographic extent nemen nnns nnn en terreni nnn nennen 25 Chapter 7 Kuun e 26 Points of Interest symbology sesssssssssssssesen eene nnne etre nnne 28 Chapter 8 Data sources and data measures eeeeseieseeeeeeeeee ennt nennen nnn nn ennt 29 Positional accuracy sssessssesseen eene nere renes nen nene inen nennen innen nennen nnn 29 hob 29 Unique referencing esssssssssssesseeeeenennnee enne nennen tn trnt nnns nnns snnt nen sinn nenns 29 ClaSSIICALION
3. Copyright file The text file PO Copyright txt explains the copyright associated with the content of the order Customers must always ensure that they adhere to the terms of their contract Features file This text file contains the actual Points of Interest records ordered by the customer The data are provided in the form of an ASCII pipe delimited or separated text file with a qualifier set to double quotes for text attributes A pipe delimiter is used rather than the more common comma separated text file or CSV because some of the text in the attribution particularly the address information may contain commas This means that if a CSV file was used some of the data would not be in the right columns of the table The features file contains a header row containing the field names The name of the text file is dependent upon the order number and customer configuration A description of the contents of this file can be found within chapter 4 on attribution An extract from the file is given below L 18712384 1000000235502642 4 Sewage Pumping Station ln 96340441 341059 354356 31 DEC 2001 2 EL 17253291 1000000235507425 1 Guide Post x 10550746 341059 353909 31 DEC 2001 2 EL 17253260 1000000235515875 1 Electricity Sub Station ln 96340433 341078 354191 1 DEC 2001 2 L 22061948 1000000235515555 1 Quakers Way
4. Crown copyright Page 58 of 59 spatial reference system See National Grid supply format The file format in which the data is supplied to the customer terminal multiplier A pricing multiplier that reflects the number of terminals or workstations that have access to Ordnance Survey data whether simultaneous or not tile A self contained rectangular subset of digital data used to subdivide that data into manageable units OS MasterMap data has no tiles TOID A number that uniquely identifies every feature No intelligence for example its coordinate position about the feature can be derived from either the allocated number or the process by which it is allocated The TOID will remain with the feature throughout its life and will not be reassigned to a new feature when the existing feature is deleted tuple coordinate tuple A set of n coordinates representing a point in n dimensional space as defined by a spatial reference system The British National Grid reference system is 2 D only so coordinate tuples consist of an easting and a northing coordinate unit of supply The definition of the way in which the area of order is broken up into manageable physical units files for supply to the customer version Version number for the feature s TOID version date The date the version of the feature was created by Ordnance Survey within their master database of OS MasterMap version number A version number will identify
5. Points of Interest shows a different activity at the address this might indicate that the claim needs further checking before it is processed If there is a match the claim might still need further checking but being able to do a certain number of verification or logic checks at the desktop may result in more efficient and faster processing Points of Interest could also provide telephone numbers and area context information Points of Interest user guide chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 11 of 59 Boundary Line Boundary Line provides a number of geographic administrative areas Administrative areas can be used in spatial queries to link a feature to the administrative area and to look at distribution of services or infrastructure on an administrative area basis Figure 6 below shows the number and distribution of a range of medical facilities within an inner city ward shown outlined in blue AIr ook e EA Q 525 ke Hees EL DT e izy Jor Ene illbric al o ur a Figure 6 Medical facilities within a city ward Data association Data association is a means of deriving more value from the data It refers to the practice of linking the customer s own data to the product There are tools readily available within GIS and most databases to link two or more datasets together through a common reference The common reference from one dataset is added to another This leaves both datasets in
6. wu wu wu wu y 10540732 341120 354168 07 FEB 2006 q This file format is a standard format for a text file and can easily be imported into a GIS a database or a spreadsheet for ease of viewing Classification look up file The look up file provides the descriptions or values associated with the classification code field In the case of the classification code field the look up descriptions can be found in a file called classification lookups txt The data are provided in the form of an ASCII pipe delimited text file with a qualifier set to double quotes This is an extract from the file 01010002 Camping Caravanning And Mobile Homes 01010003 Guest Houses And Bed And Breakfast 01010005 Hostels 01010006 Hotels 01010007 Self Catering E Points of Interest user guide chapter 5 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 21 of 59 The customer would use this in the following manner When looking at the attributes of the feature the PointX classification attribute contains an eight digit number that is the classification to level 3 of the feature By searching for that number within this text file the customer can find the textual description of the feature A code value for the attribute and a look up table are used instead of a full text description because it reduces the amount of space and therefore the memory needed to store and search the data making it more efficient to u
7. GIS customers are encouraged to contact the system vendor to establish actual system requirements Supply definition Points of Interest is only available for Great Britain England Scotland and Wales and is supplied on CD ROM containing Pipe Delimited Text file data Points of Interest is only available in Pipe Delimited Text file format The data are delivered compressed File sizes A national Great Britain set of Points of Interest is currently approximately 500 Mb in size Points of Interest directory structure The directory structure of this CD ROM DVD is shown below DATA DOC LOOKUPS POI_README_SEP07 ROOT Directory The ROOT directory will contain the following ASCII text file e This file POL README SEPO7 TXT The ROOT directory will contain the following Directories e DATA e DOC e LOOKUPS DATA Directory The DATA directory will contain the data files for your order e FEATURES1 TXT e FEATURES2 TXT Each order contains one or more FEATURES TXT files The number supplied depends upon the amount of data you have ordered At the time of writing National Cover comprised of four FEATURES pipe delimited text file See chapter 2 in this technical specification for more details about pipe delimited files and the other files supplied with your order 0 0 MEN Points of Interest technical specification chapter 1 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 50 of 59 DOC Directory CLASSIFICAT
8. themselves whether that category is complete enough for the intended applications Keyword search file Customer feedback had indicated that users of PointX data would benefit from having access to additional documentation that showed both where within the classification system certain features are held and additionally uses strings or keywords compatible with systems already in place to do this As an initial step for linking up with existing systems the keyword list terms held in the Local Government Business Category List LGBCL version 1 00 have so far been classified and provided in the Keywords txt file It is an ASCII pipe delimited text file with no text qualifiers unlike the look up files An extract from the keyword search file is given below Books 674 599 Bowling alleys Bowls clubs 290 Bread and flour 47 Brewery 522 290 As with the features file it can easily be imported into a database table or spreadsheet to make it easier to read and query The first row of the file called a header row contains the names for the columns when importing into a tabular format Most systems would prompt to know if there is a header file when importing a text file 528 524 There is also supporting documentation in the form of the file Keywords Documentation pdf This explains how to use the keyword file and provides an example of how to read the relevant group categor
9. 0696 Second hand vehicles 10 Transport 53 Air 0727 Aeronautical features 0728 Airports and landing strips 54 Road and rail 0730 Bridges 0733 Cattle grids 0734 Fords and level crossings 0735 Motorway service stations 0736 Parking 0737 Petrol and fuel stations 55 Walking riding and cycling 0746 Finger posts guide posts and cairns 0747 Footbridges 0748 Footpaths trails and bridleways 0684 Garden machinery and furniture 0685 General household goods 0717 Gifts and cards 0686 Hobby sports and pastime products 0687 Leather goods luggage and travel accessories including handbags 0688 Lighting 0704 Mail order and catalogue stores 0689 Music and video 0690 Musical instruments 0723 Office and shop equipment 0718 Party goods and novelties 0691 Pets and pet supplies 0724 Photographic and optical equipment 0763 Post offices 0719 Second hand goods 0708 Shopping centres and retail parks 0725 Stationery supplies 0710 Surplus goods 0726 Telephones and telephone cards 0694 Travel agencies 0697 Vehicle auctions 0698 Vehicle parts and accessories 0729 Helipads 0739 Roadside telephone boxes 0740 Signalling facilities 0742 Tunnels 0743 Viaducts 0744 Weighbridges 0757 Ski lifts and aerial cableways 0749 Stepping stones 0750 Subways 0 00 MEN Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 41 of 59 56 Water 0751 Aqueducts 0753 Mo
10. 7 os 7 Unu S gt i cf Figure 5 Points of Interest over OS MasterMap Imagery Layer Whilst it is possible to view the data at any scale the smaller the scale the harder it is to see what real world feature the point represents There are problems of points either being difficult to distinguish from each other or if they are set to enlarge as the map is zoomed out they can disappear behind each other OS MasterMap Address Layers OS MasterMap Address Layers provides a comprehensive set of address information including postal addresses including alternative names or aliases geographic addresses and addresses for multiple premises It is more extensive in terms of the address details it contains than Points of Interest Points of Interest contains many features that are not found in OS MasterMap Address Layers such as cash machines or bus stops OS MasterMap Address Layers are used to find out where an address is located and Points of Interest is used to find out what activity takes place at the location For example if an insurance company received a claim concerning an activity at a certain address it could use both products to do an initial evaluation of the claim Using OS MasterMap Address Layers they can identify the premise It would be possible using Points of Interest to see if the alleged activity does take place there If there is no match Points of Interest shows no activity at the premise or an inconclusive match
11. PointX It is designed to be comprehensive intuitive and easy to use It provides the necessary level of detail to be useful and flexible without being so complex that it becomes difficult to use the product in applications There are three levels of classification the group the category and the class There are nine groups at level 1 This provides the broadest categorisation Level 2 comprises 49 categories Level 2 categories are broken down into over 600 classes of Points of Interest to form the third level of the classification system This is the most specific level of classification The full classification is given at annexe A Over the life of the product some classes have been changed added or merged with other classes which is why numbers are not sequential Having three levels of classification enables customers to make general searches at the group level for example education and health specific searches at the category level such as primary secondary and tertiary education or specialist searches such as Special schools and colleges at the class level Customers can order Points of Interest at either the group or the category level Features are allocated a classification based on either e aclassification provided by the original data supplier or e where no classification is provided PointX uses its experience and understanding of the dataset itself or elements within it to allocate a classification It is possible
12. The file contains a header row containing the field names PointX is continually striving to augment its data holding to ensure the maximum coverage of records The values given range from 1 5 which equate to the percentages shown below Between 0 and 20 complete Between 21 and 40 complete Between 41 and 60 complete Between 61 and 80 complete Between 81 and 100 complete Ul i amp C NO ES An example from the file is 10 Transport 53 Air 5 This means that in group 10 Transport the category for Air transport has a value of 5 making it between 81 and 100 complete As with the features file it can easily be imported into a database table or spreadsheet to make it easier to read and query E NEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 5 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 22 of 59 The completeness range assigned to a class is an estimate based on PointX s experience of compiling the data and knowledge of what information is available or not available within the marketplace It is therefore advised that customers use the value as an indicative measure rather than an absolute measure of completeness The completeness of a category also varies across the country in some areas there may be very comprehensive data on a specific activity and in others there may be very little data available on that same activity It is imperative that customers look at the completeness value for the category and assess for
13. VE ITE Organisat sers srian M AdArESSi onena aa aa a a a a aa a a aa Quotation or order reference sssssssessseseeee nemen udnaaa Keona e KKA En EAKL sese iis da nasi sess sedes ONDE NEEE AAKALA Eaka SEa Please record your comments or feedback in the space below We will acknowledge receipt of your form within three 3 working days and provide you with a full reply or a status report within 21 working days If you are posting this form please send it to Points of Interest Product Manager Ordnance Survey Romsey Road SOUTHAMPTON SO16 4GU If you wish to return it by fax please dial 023 8079 2615 Any personal information that you supply with this report form will be used by Ordnance Survey only in the improvement of its products and services It will not be made available to third parties E Points of Interest user guide annexe D v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 47 of 59 Points of Interest Technical specification Contents Section Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Annexe A Page no 49 Purpose of this specification and disclaimer sssssssssssse eee 49 Copyright in this specification ssssssssssssseseeenenenennenen nennen nennen nnne 49 Utilising Points of Interest e rete Hadise iaa 50 isi UIIINISICHETEEE EE 50 Supply defini
14. a PDF document and relates to the class level of the Points of Interest Classification The document provides a description of the class and where available or appropriate a selection of brand names associated with the class The purpose of the document is to help customers identify what the activities businesses or facilities a class contains Below shows the entry for the class 02060085 Civil Engineers which includes a description in bold italics and a selection of brand names normal italics 0 0 NENENENENMNMNNAEAAg Z amp Q Q NUUNEMNMNMN NEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 5 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 23 of 59 02060085 Civil Engineers Civil Engineer Consulting Engineer Drainage Contractor Flood Control Pile Driving Water Engineer Atkins Edmund Nuttall Ltd Faber Maunsell Jacob Babtie Halcrow Group Ltd Mott Macdonald Mouchel Parkman Royal Haskoning Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd Notes on the background of data suppliers This is a PDF document that provides further information on the suppliers PointX uses to create Points of Interest Media formats Points of Interest is supplied on either CD or DVD The current size of a fully supply is 160 Mb compressed or 455 Mb uncompressed A full supply will fit on a single CD If at some future point the dataset exceeds the capacity of a CD DVD will become the preferred media A NN Points of Interest user guide chapter 5 v2 7 09 200
15. is a very simple process that uses detail points visible in the image and on the map The image is then warped to fit the map on those points There is no information to ensure that the image fits the map elsewhere GPS Global Positioning System A satellite based navigational system allowing the determination of any point on the Earth s surface with a high degree of accuracy given a suitable GPS receiver Licensed Partner Any organisation that has entered into a formal licence agreement with Ordnance Survey to market map information or to incorporate map data with their application or service line The straight line segment between two given points Not to be confused with polyline or line segment feature local holdings The situation where a customer has to hold and manage data that is supplied to them media supply See offline supply metadata Graphical or textual information about the content quality condition origins and characteristics of data National GPS Network The infrastructure of Active and Passive GPS reference stations that allows surveyors to determine precise coordinates in GPS and British National Grid spatial reference systems The National GPS Network provides the physical definition of the British National Grid the primary spatial reference system used in OS MasterMap A central component of the Digital National Framework National Grid A unique referencing system that can be applied to all Ordnance Survey
16. the Ordnance Survey website Copyright in this specification This specification including for the avoidance of doubt any mapping images reproduced herein is Crown copyright 2008 All rights reserved Any part of this specification may be copied for use internally in your organisation or business so that you can use Points of Interest for the purpose for which it is licensed to your organisation or business but not otherwise No part of this specification may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronically for commercial exploitation without the prior written consent of Ordnance Survey No part of this specification may be copied or incorporated in products services or publications that you generate for onward sale or as free promotional or support materials without the prior written consent of Ordnance Survey Some elements of this user guide are PointX Ltd copyright and are used with the kind permission of PointX Ltd 0 0 A Points of Interest technical specification introduction v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 49 of 59 Chapter1 Utilising Points of Interest Requirements Points of Interest is a data product and does not include software for analysis but can be used with a variety of programs and applications Points of Interest can be loaded onto any desktop PC that has a program capable of importing a delimited text file If using a geographical information system
17. 216 Research services 15 Transport storage and delivery 0218 Airlines and airline services 0219 Animal transportation 0221 Container and storage 0222 Courier delivery and messenger 0223 Distribution and haulage 03 Attractions 16 Botanical and zoological 0231 Aquaria 0232 Bird reserves and sanctuaries 0233 Butterfly farms 0235 Farm based attractions 17 Historical and cultural 0240 Archaeological sites 0241 Battlefields 0245 Historic and ceremonial structures 18 Recreational 0252 Commons 0253 Country parks 19 Landscape features 0251 Bodies of water 0257 Designated scenic features 20 Tourism 0263 Laseria and planetaria 0264 Model villages 0265 Railways heritage steam and miniature 0267 Sightseeing tours viewing and visitor centres 04 Sport and entertainment 21 Entertainment support services 0270 Bouncy castle hire 0271 Children s activity centres 0273 Entertainment services 0217 Testing and analysis services 0224 Ferry and cruise companies 0025 Import and export services 0227 Railway companies and information 0228 Removals and shipping agents 0230 Taxi services 0236 Horticultural attractions including designated parks and reserves 0237 Salmon ladders 0239 Zoos and animal collections 0244 Historic buildings including castles forts and abbeys 0246 Historical ships 0248 Museums and art galleries 0254 Picnic areas 0255 Playgrounds 0259 Trigonometric points 0266 The
18. 33 Central and local government 0404 Armed services 0407 Coastguard stations 0408 Consular services 0409 Courts court services and tribunals 0411 Driving test centres 0412 Embassies and consulates 0414 Fire brigade stations 0340 Homeopaths 0370 Hospices 0371 Hospitals 0372 Mental health centres and practitioners 0342 Midwives 0373 Nursing and residential care homes 0344 Optometrists and opticians 0345 Physical therapy 0352 Speech therapists 0354 Surgeons and cosmetic surgeries 0106 Medical equipment rental and leasing 0361 Medical waste disposal services 0362 Pregnancy testing services 0363 X ray services 0377 Independent and preparatory schools 0801 Pupil referral units 0380 Special schools and colleges 0382 Unspecified and other schools 395 Martial arts instruction 0396 Music teachers and schools 0397 Nursery schools and pre and after school care 0399 Sailing schools 0400 Sports and fitness coaching 0401 Sunday schools 0403 Training providers and centres 0415 Government agencies and offices 0419 Members of parliament and members of European parliament 0422 Police stations 0424 Prisons 0425 Probation offices and police support services 0426 Registrars offices 0429 Social service activities E Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 37 of 59 34 Infrastructure and facilities 0453 Allotments 0454 Cemeteries and crematoria 0455 Drinking fountain
19. 5 Organisations A 10 Personal consumer and other services a 11 Property and development services 07 Manufacturing and production 12 Recycling services amp 37 Consumer products TT 13 Repair and servicing Ma 38 Extractive industries se 14 Research and design V 39 Farming bad 15 Transport storage and delivery am 40 Foodstuffs 41 Industrial features T 03 Attractions 42 Industrial products ka 16 Botanical and zoological m 17 Historical and cultural 09 Retail 18 Recreational x 46 Clothing and accessories LI 19 Landscape features 5 4 47 Food and drink and multi item retail 20 Tourism x 48 Household office leisure and garden 49 Motoring 04 Sport and entertainment 21 Entertainment support services 10 Transport 22 Gambling s 53 Air x 23 Outdoor pursuits z 54 Road and rail T 24 Sports complex T 55 Walking riding and cycling 1 25 Venues stage and screen 56 Water zm 57 Transport Access Points e Table 2 Colour symbols for Points of Interest 0 0 o NENNENENMNMNHHEaEMREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 7 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 28 of 59 Chapter8 Data sources and data measures Supplier data are supplied to PointX in a wide variety of formats Some of the data are supplied without grid references and efforts are made to geocode this data by identifying a grid reference for each record Positional accuracy Ordnance Surve
20. 6 Water 57 Transport access points 0 o MENENENMNMERERRNEMEMKA A KNMKMWANNMNMNMNMNNMNMNMNMNNNN Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 31 of 59 01 Accommodation eating and drinking 01 Accommodation 0002 Camping caravanning mobile homes holiday parks and centres 0003 Guest houses and bed and breakfast 0005 Hostels 0006 Hotels motels country houses and inns 02 Eating and drinking 0010 American restaurants 0012 Banqueting and function rooms 0013 Cafes snack bars and tea rooms 0014 Caribbean restaurants 0015 Chinese and oriental restaurants 0017 English restaurants 0018 Fast food and takeaway outlets 0019 Fast food delivery services 0020 Fish and chip shops 0021 Fish and seafood restaurants 0022 French restaurants 0023 Greek restaurants 0024 Indian and Asian restaurants 0025 Internet cafes 0026 Italian restaurants 02 Commercial services 03 Construction services 0779 Building and component suppliers 0045 Building contractors 0046 Construction completion services 0047 Construction plant 0048 Cutting drilling and welding services 0049 Demolition services 0050 Diving services 0051 Electrical contractors 0778 Fencing and dry stone walling services 0052 Garden maintenance services 0007 Self catering 0008 Timeshare 0009 Youth hostels and other youth accommodation 0027 Japanese restaurants 0028 Lebanese restaurants 0029
21. 8 Crown copyright Page 24 of 59 Chapter6 Pricing and licensing Ordnance Survey can license subject to agreement and some restrictions that may apply Points of Interest to organisations for internal and non commercial Internet uses Ordnance Survey can also license the data to companies wishing to provide commercial services Please contact Ordnance Survey to discuss commercial licensing for Points of Interest A number of factors are used to determine Points of Interest licence pricing These are described below Terminals The minimum number of terminals that can be licensed is five Licences are priced partly by the number of terminals on which the data are to be used Where more than five terminals are required a sliding scale of prices is used to determine the terminal element in a licence price e 5 Minimum base price e 6 15 Minimum base price but for 10 users This effects a discounted rate for the 6th to 15th user whereby the price for those users is halved e 16 25 Half minimum base price but for ten users This effects a discounted rate for the 16th to 25th user whereby the minimum base price for those users is quartered Term Licences are available for one two or three years Discounts are applied for two and three year terms Licence rights Licences are available for internal business use IBU and non commercial Internet services NCIS Full details of licence rights are detailed in licence drafts which are av
22. 8 Textiles fabrics silk and machinery 0579 Tools including machine shops 0612 Unspecified manufacturing 0615 Vehicles 0613 Vehicle bodybuilders 0614 Vehicle components 0787 Waste collection processing and disposal equipment 0616 Wood products including charcoal paper card and board 0617 Work wear 0659 Jewellery and fashion accessories 0660 Lingerie and hosiery 0668 Green and new age goods 0669 Grocers farm shops and pick your own 0670 Herbs and spices 0703 Livestock markets 0705 Markets 0706 Newsagents and tobacconists 0672 Organic health and kosher foods 0709 Supermarkets 0798 Tea and coffee merchants 0 00 NENNEN Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 40 of 59 48 Household office leisure and garden 0711 Adult goods 0712 Art and antiques 0674 Books and maps 0693 Camping and caravanning 0675 Carpets rugs soft furnishings and needlecraft 0714 Charity shops 0676 China and glassware 0720 Computer supplies 0677 Cosmetics toiletries perfumes and hairdressing supplies 0678 Craft supplies 0679 Cycles and accessories 0700 Department stores 0701 Discount stores 0680 DIY and home improvement 0721 Domestic appliances 0722 Electrical goods and components 0716 Florists 0682 Furniture 0766 Fuel distributors and suppliers 0764 Garages garden and portable buildings 0683 Garden centres and nurseries 49 Motoring 0695 New vehicles
23. Annexe C gives the completeness ranges by POI classification code Field checking postcode recoding quality audits and customer feedback are used to check that the attributes have the correct type of information so that for example the easting and northing attributes have coordinates not text The checking is done on a monthly or quarterly basis More information on completeness is given in chapter 5 Sources of data There are two main sources of data that provide approximately 80 of the Points of Interest features The authoritative source for a type of feature is used to build the dataset where possible More than 170 suppliers are used to create the data set Annexe B lists all the suppliers and indicates their level of contribution to the dataset S MENNENENENENMEARRINNEEEEEEEEEEEENENNENNEEEEEEEEENEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 8 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 30 of 59 Annexe A Classification system v2 3 The classification scheme has three levels of information e There are 9 groups at level 1 and each group is numbered 01 10 Numbering is not sequential e There are 49 categories at the second level numbered 01 57 Numbering is not sequential e These are broken down into over 600 classes of Points of Interest at the third level Customers can select Points of Interest from the group and category level 01 Accommodation eating and drinking 01 Accommodation 02 Eating and drinking 02 Commercial S
24. ID version of 0 which means that position of the Points of Interest feature cannot be established to a level of accuracy where it references a TOID for a building where the activity or resource takes place Including TOIDs for features with a lesser accuracy may locate the point to an entirely different type of feature such as the road or the pavement or even an adjacent premise Analysis like this can be used by property and land professionals to monitor the retail space given over to certain commercial activities monitor the change in floor space use over time and compare city centres from across the country This example also demonstrates the additional value derived from different datasets by using them in combination and by exploiting the typical functionality available in modern GIS and database systems 0 00 o NENENENENMEHERENEEEEEEENEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 14 of 59 Chapter3 Classification Points of Interest has its own classification system Each Points of Interest feature is assigned to a class within the system The classification is central to the Points of Interest dataset as it provides a hierarchical structure to the data that makes it efficient to store in a computer system and easier to search It also provides a means of subdividing the data so that customers can order only the features they want The classification was created by
25. ION AMENDMENTS V2 2 PDF Amendments to the POI Classification CLASSIFICATION SCHEME V2 2 PDF POI Classification e DATA_SUPPLIERS_SEP07 PDF Background notes on the Data Suppliers e DESC CLASS REPORT SEPTO07 pdf Descriptive Class Reporting documentation e DISCCARE TXT Information of the care of CDs DVDs e KEYWORDS_DOCUMENTATION PDF Using the Keywords information POI USERGUIDE V2 4 JUNO7 PDF The POI User Guide PRODUCT AMENDMENTS SEPO07 TXT Product amendment information README_1 PDF Important licence information for customers taking Link Interchange Network data README 2 PDF Important licence information for all customers SIC_DOCUMENTATION_SEP07 PDF Using the POI Class to SIC Lookup The DOC directory may also contain documentation relating to the specification of the requested data format The DOC directory may contain additional documentation specific to that supply LOOKUPS Directory The LOOKUPS directory will contain the ASCII text files CATEGORIES LOOKUPS TXT the categories lookups within the classification CLASSIFICATION LOOKUPS TXT the classification lookups COMPLETENESS TXT information about the completeness of the data GROUPS LOOKUPS TXT the groups lookups within the classification e KEYWORDS TXT keywords information POI CLASS TO SIC LOOKUP TXT the POI Classes linked to the SIC POSITIONAL ACCURACY LOOKUP TXT the positional accuracy loo
26. IS In the case of an irregular shape the format in which it can be supplied to Ordnance Survey needs to be agreed beforehand On this and for further information on user defined areas please contact Ordnance Survey s Customer Contact Centre for details Administrative areas Customers can also choose to receive data for the following geographic areas regions as defined by the Department for Communities and Local Government e Great Britain e Scotland e Wales e England Government Office Regions e East of England e South East e East Midlands e South West e London e West Midlands e North East e Yorkshire and The Humber e North West Other administration areas available are e County authorities e District authorities e Metropolitan districts e Unitary authorities e London borough councils e Scottish authorities e Welsh authorities The boundaries used to define the data are those contained within Ordnance Survey Boundary Line product Please contact Ordnance Survey for details A record of the selection criteria for each customer s order is created and retained by Ordnance Survey The initial full supply of data contains all records within the database that are within the specified geographic area and within the selected group or category this is what the customer will initially receive PointX maintains the data and re supply the changes to Ordnance Survey regularly E Points of Interest user guide chapte
27. Mediterranean restaurants 0030 Mexican restaurants 0032 Pizza restaurants 0033 Pub food restaurants 0034 Pubs bars and inns 0035 Roadside restaurants 0036 Russian restaurants 0038 Spanish restaurants 0040 Thai restaurants 0041 Turkish restaurants 0042 Vegetarian restaurants 0043 Restaurants unspecified 0053 Glaziers 0044 Metalworkers including blacksmiths 0054 Painting and decorating services 0055 Plasterers 0056 Plumbing and heating services 0057 Pool and court construction 0058 Restoration and preservation services 0059 Road construction services 0060 Roofing and chimney services 0 0 o NENENENENMNHN ER K amp E NMMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMMEN Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 32 of 59 04 Consultancies 0063 Architectural and building related consultants 0064 Business related consultants 0065 Computer consultants 0066 Construction service consultants 0067 Feng shui consultants and furnishers 0068 Food consultant 05 Employment and career agencies 0075 Careers offices 0076 Domestic staff and home help 0077 Driver agencies 0078 Employment agencies 06 Engineering services 0083 Aviation engineers 0084 Chemical engineer 0085 Civil engineers 0086 Electrical and electronic engineers 0087 Hydraulic engineers 0088 Industrial engineers 07 Hiring and contract services 0095 Agricultural contractors 0096 Aircraft charters 0097 Boat hiring se
28. NMNMNMN NE NN Points of Interest user guide chapter 1 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 8 of 59 Chapter 2 Using Points of Interest data with other Ordnance Survey products This section places the Points of Interest dataset within the context of other Ordnance Survey products and discusses how additional value can be gained by associating it with a customer s own data Capture scale Each point has a coordinate that is accurate to at least 1 metre and often to 0 1 m The resolution of all reported records will be to 0 1 m where the coordinates are derived from Ordnance Survey address data It will be 1 m where the feature s coordinates have been derived from Ordnance Survey large scale topographic data The accuracy will depend on the positional accuracy value assigned and is independent of the resolution For more information on positional accuracy please see chapter 8 This gives a capture scale equal to or better than Ordnance Survey large scale topographic data which is captured between 1 2500 scale with a 1 1 m average positional accuracy or root mean square error and 1 1250 scale which has an average accuracy of 0 4 m Viewing the data As seen in figure 1 above providing the context of the physical environment within which the Points of Interest features exist adds another dimension of meaning to the data It allows a spatial understanding of the features to develop The National Grid coordinates that accompany each featur
29. O ES Points of Interest User guide and technical specification Points of Interest User guide Contents Section Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Page no 4 ieogcreqerci ce 4 Use of the product ett e CEN RRENARKRER S A NRURKRR E E Rud Ce TR RKEERVO Rx Ce ERI ER RR HRS 4 Purpose and disclaimer assisia iiia iaa pe en xg See qn A a keen dk Cr dua TERRE ONUS 4 Copyright inthis guide 2 eni texit Qaeda Te tenes ec ee LL Ern kdo Te ee eddie 5 Data copyright and other intellectual property rights sseene 5 Trademarks sia eee HM 5 Back up provision of the product ssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeen enne nennen enne nns 5 USING RUIESeluo e 5 IMEFOCUCUON e 6 Roles and responsibilities eessssssssssssseeseeeeeenenen ennemi nnne nnne nnns 7 Using Points of Interest iced pice enin terree be gai Eee eu ETE to REID ee RE De ee E ETE RR ER ced 7 Using Points of Interest data with other Ordnance Survey products 9 Capture scale erede eripe cacacelewsgeetss debe Ea Oe ege Eo ea et er HAE REPRE FARE Fete a a n 9 MAIRIE 9 OS MasterMap Address Layers it ttes tec det eden Ret cR 11 ze Te eR RN Lr MR I RA 12 Dat
30. UeIGInne e i n COLULLUULLLLUUAULAB Aa amp 3sa a Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 39 of 59 0562 Concrete products 0563 Cooling and refrigeration 0765 Educational equipment and supplies 0564 Electrical components 0565 Electrical motors and generators 0566 Electrical production and manipulation equipment 0567 Electronic equipment 0568 Electronic media 0569 Engines 0781 Fences gates and railings 0571 Fertilisers 0572 Food and beverage industry machinery 0573 General construction supplies 0574 General purpose machinery 0575 Glass 0788 Glass fibre services 0576 Horticultural equipment 0767 Ice 0577 Industrial coatings and finishings 09 Retail 46 Clothing and accessories 0797 Baby and nursery equipment and children s clothes 0656 Clothing 0657 Footwear 47 Food drink and multi item retail 0671 Alcoholic drinks including off licences and wholesalers 0661 Bakeries 0662 Butchers 0768 Cash and carry 0663 Confectioners 0699 Convenience stores 0665 Delicatessens 0666 Fishmongers 0667 Frozen foods 0702 General stores 0600 Pumps and compressors 0601 Radar and telecommunications equipment 0602 Road maintenance equipment 0603 Ropes nets and cordage 0604 Rubber and plastics 0605 Seals tapes taps and valves 0791 Shelving storage safes and vaults 0606 Signs 0607 Special purpose machinery and equipment 0609 Stationery stamps tags and labels 060
31. a ASSOCIAOMN MEUM 12 Scribe vov R 15 Dung ER 17 Record VP c 17 Unique reference number URN ssssssssssseseseneeee nennen entente nennen enne 17 uel O OO 17 TOID VETSIO mee E 17 M ieH Depllcme E 17 En 18 Address detail p 18 Street Iu c 18 Kol mE 18 POSUCODG qm 18 Telephone number sssssssssssssesseeeeeree ener enne nns t nne n nene nrnr sns nnne nennen rn nn nns 18 PointX classification code sssssssssssssssssssese eene ener eren nnne nnn 19 EASTING p 19 0 a 86 M 19 Date of SUpply 5 eret eo Eire rur e eun ea e po E Rd cds io kate eaves ae 19 Positional accuracy code ssssssssssseeeenenen nennen nennen enne snnm nennen nn 19 Ele 20 GeO Graphic APCAS 20 User defined area iiic iiti re ine rd et n ed echa rn dn redes a dede aede 20 Administrative areas sssssssssssssssssssssssesenen eene nennen entnehmen nnns nnne nnns 20 Ordering Points of Interest esssssssssssesesses esee nnne ten tens nnns nnns 21 ironia EM 21 EISUBILZIATSM EM 21 Classification look up file
32. aces those features having a classification that starts 0102 ona street in a city were identified and linked in the manner described above to their associated building to produce a list of areas in square metres Table 1 shows the results of the link based on the shared TOID columns Points of Interest TOID and OS MasterMap Topography Layer TOID When the areas are added for dining and eating of just over 1 707 square metres Figure 7 Restaurants Points of Interest poino Pone onnterest OS MasterMap OS MasterMap unique reference classification TOID Topography Layer Topography Layer number code TOID calculated area value Table 1 Area values derived through data association using the TOID as a common reference Points of Interest user guide chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 13 of 59 It is worth noting that the level to which the TOIDs versions in the two datasets match up depends on the update cycles of each product Currently the TOID and version fields within Points of Interest are updated once a year against OS MasterMap Topography Layer Customers can take OS MasterMap Topography Layer more frequently than PointX can update the fields within the Points of Interest product As a result there may be a percentage of TOIDs versions in a customer s holdings of the products that are not the same as each other In some instances Points features may have the TOID value of Not Assigned and TO
33. ailable from Ordnance Survey Classification Customers can license the use of Points of Interest at either group or category level Diagram 1 below shows the classification hierarchy For example a customer interested in transport data would order the Transport group A customer interested in modes of air transport can order the category and would receive everything under category 53 Aeronautical features Airports and landing strips and helipads A customer interested in just helipads however would need to order category 53 as well because at the time of writing it is not possible to license individual classes of Points of Interest data It is possible to mix and match combinations of data based on group and category level The customer that ordered all of Transport may also wish to order the category 49 Motoring from the group Retail 09 which would provide car retailing information such as car sale rooms Groups 9 Categories 49 Classes 600 Diagram 1 The classification hierarchy Geographic extent Points of Interest can be licensed across either predetermined and known extents to suit government and other customers for example West Berkshire Scotland or Great Britain or to customer bespoke extents A customer can also have different geographic areas within the same order Points of Interest user guide chapter 6 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 25 of 59 Chapter 7 Styling Points of Interest is c
34. and related information Has a value of Not Supplied if no value is supplied Leading zeros numbers and other characters permitted This field is only available in orders to customers that are from eligible market sectors POINTX CLASSIFICATION CODE YES TEXT 8 This field contains an eight digit number which equates to the three levels Group Category and Class of the record This code can be used to link to the classification lookup to identify the textual description associated with this eight digit code Text to prevent leading zero loss E Points of Interest technical specification chapter 3 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 54 of 59 FIELD NAME Entry DATA LENGTH COMMENTS always TYPE required EASTING YES NUMBER 10 3 Easting element of the record s National Grid Reference Up to 3 decimal places NORTHING YES NUMBER 11 3 Northing element of the record s National Grid Reference Up to 3 decimal places PROVENANCE YES TEXT 255 Name of the Data Supplier Distributor only field DATE OF SUPPLY YES DATE 11 Form DD MMM YYYY POSITIONAL ACCURACY CODE YES NUMBER 1 Permitted range of values from 1 through 4 SUPPLIER LINK NO TEXT 255 Supplier Link information Distributor only field Those fields containing text that is alphanumerics A will be enclosed by double quotes the double quotes have
35. ap and TOID are registered trademarks and Boundary Line and Street View are trademarks of Ordnance Survey the national mapping agency of Great Britain Driving Standards Agency is a registered trademark of Driving Standards Agency Landmark is a registered trademark of Landmark Information Group Little Chef is a registered trademark of Travelrest Services Ltd Moto is a registered trademark of COMPASS GROUP plc PointX is a registered trademark of PointX Ltd Royal Mail is a registered trademark of Royal Mail Group plc West Yorkshire Police is a registered trademark of West Yorkshire Police Authority Back up provision of the product You are advised to copy the supplied data to a back up medium Using this guide The documentation is supplied in portable document format PDF only Free Adobe Acrobat Reader software which displays the guide incorporates search and zoom facilities and allows you to navigate within Hyperlinks are used to navigate between associated parts of the guide and to relevant Internet resources by clicking on the blue hyperlinks and the table of contents If you are unfamiliar with any words or terms used and require clarification please refer to the glossary at the end of the document 0 0 o NMENENENENMNBN E amp KNRHNMNENNENENENENEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN Points of Interest user guide preface v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 5 of 59 Chapter1 Introduction Points of Interest i
36. aphic data as shown in figure 1 below Points of Interest becomes a useful component in location based applications i 1g a un 3 5 REL SUED ANM ch gu 1 d H f f HE Ee Z za mie 1 Ed Figure 1 Points of Interest features over OS MasterMap Topography Layer data A legend for the symbols can be found in chapter 7 RR Points of Interest user guide chapter 1 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 6 of 59 Common applications that customers are already using Points of Interest for include e Citizen information services e Distribution and provision of facilities and infrastructure e Driver routing and navigation e Emergency planning e Location based services e Tourism Each feature comes with a set of attribution that can be manipulated and analysed within a GIS or database so that customers can customise the data and learn more about the facilities within their chosen geographic areas The data are delivered in a text file format The data can be ordered in a number of different geographic units including a customer s own defined area It is also possible to order either the whole dataset or subsets of data based on the classification system to suit particular needs Roles and responsibilities Points of Interest is created and maintained by PointX an independent company in the joint ownership of Ordnance Survey and Landmark Information Group Ordnance Survey is the sole data only distr
37. arketing services 0128 Plate makers print finishers and type setters 0129 Press and journalism services 0130 Printing and photocopying services 0131 Recording studios and record companies 0133 Telephone telex and fax services 0134 Television and radio services E NNNM Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 33 of 59 09 Legal and financial 0135 Accountants and auditors 0137 Auctioneers auction rooms and valuers 0141 Cash machines 0142 Cheque cashing 0795 Commodity dealers 0143 Company registration and trademarks 0144 Copyright and patent 0145 Credit reference agencies 0140 Currency conversion and money transfers 0146 Debt collecting agencies 10 Personal consumer and other services 0155 Astrologers clairvoyants and palmists 0156 Barbers and hairdressers 0157 Beauty salons and beauty services 0158 Cleaning services 0159 Clothing hire 0160 Customer service centres 0161 CV writers 0162 Detective and investigation agencies 0165 Funeral and associated services 0167 Headquarters administration and central offices 0166 Historical research 0169 Introduction and dating agencies 0170 Lock key and security services 0171 Message and greeting services 0173 Motoring organisations 0774 Musicians and composers 11 Property and development services 0189 Commercial property letting 0191 Estate and property management 0194 Property development services 12 Recycling servic
38. ation 0549 Arms and ammunition 0550 Bearing gear and drive elements 0551 Beekeeping supplies 0553 Bricks tiles clay and ceramic products 0555 Cable wire and fibre optics 0784 Car ports and steel buildings 0557 Colours chemicals and water softeners and supplies 0558 Cleaning equipment and supplies 0504 Sand gravel and clay extraction and merchants 0506 Stone quarrying and preparation 0507 Unspecified quarries or mines 0515 Hoppers and silos 0516 Horse breeders and dealers 0517 Livestock farming 0518 Mixed or unspecified farming 0520 Poultry farming equipment and supplies 0521 Sheep dips and washes 0525 Dairy products 0526 Fish meat and poultry products 0528 Milling refining and food additives 0529 Non alcoholic drinks 0537 Oast houses 0538 Pipelines 0539 Tanks generic 0540 Travelling cranes and gantries 0542 Unspecified works or factories 0543 Water pumping stations 0580 Lifting and handling equipment 0581 Lubricants and lubricating equipment 0582 Marine equipment including boats and ships 0583 Measurement and inspection equipment 0584 Medical equipment supplies and pharmaceuticals 0585 Metals manufacturers fabricators and stockholders 0586 Moulds dies and castings 0588 Office and shop equipment 0589 Ovens and furnaces 0590 Packaging 0591 Paints varnishes and lacquers 0594 Pesticides 0598 Printing related machinery 0599 Published goods CO LE nM EE EUULLELIULUIIIGUIIIGILGSLOLH
39. ce Service West Midlands Fire Service West Midlands Police West Sussex Fire amp Rescue Service West Yorkshire Fire Service West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service West Yorkshire Police West Country Ambulance Service Wiltshire Ambulance Service Wiltshire Constabulary Wiltshire Fire Brigade Points of Interest user guide annexe B v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 44 of 59 Annexe C Completeness coding by category These are estimates and should be treated as indicative only Both the code value and the category code are correct at the date of issue of this document but are subject to change without notice Code 5 81 100 complete Code 4 6196 8096 complete Code 3 4196 6096 complete Code 2 2196 4096 complete Code 1 096 2096 complete Category Category description Code 1 Accommodation 5 2 Eating Drinking 5 3 Construction services 5 4 Consultancies 5 5 Employment And Career agencies 5 6 Engineering services 5 7 Hiring And Contract services 5 8 IT Advertising Marketing Media services 5 9 Legal And Financial 5 10 Personal Consumer And Other services 5 11 Property And Development services 5 12 Recycling services 5 13 Repair And Servicing 5 14 Research And Design 5 15 Transport Storage And Delivery 5 16 Botanical And Zoological 5 17 Historical And Cultural 4 18 Recreational 5 19 Landscape Features 5 20 Tourism 4 21 Entertainment support services 5 22 Gambling 5 23 O
40. code in which the feature is located With an unmatched address any available information supplied with the data may be used but it cannot be guaranteed that it is the correct or full postcode There might be no postcode supplied at all As with any attribute that forms part of the address always check the verified address attribute for the feature s status Telephone number Where licensed to use this field provides telephone numbers considered to be relating to the organisation in the name field All spaces have been removed from the number If no number was supplied the text Not supplied will appear Some numbers will contain text information as well such as where an extension has been supplied E Points of Interest user guide chapter 4 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 18 of 59 PointX classification code This attribute contains an eight digit number made up of the group category and class numbers of the feature This code can be looked up in the classification look up table supplied with the product to identify the textual description associated with this eight figure code Easting This is the easting element of the record s National Grid reference This is provided to a resolution of one metre in most cases Northing This is the northing element of the records National Grid reference This is provided to a resolution of one metre in most cases The coordinate attributes are used by GIS to create points in th
41. customers of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey Options as well as customers of Licensed Partners It does not include anyone or any organisation that has access to Ordnance Survey material without charge dataset An identifiable set of data that share common characteristics and that is managed as a subset of the data within a database delivery mechanism The method of supply of data to a customer for example offline and online o Points of Interest technical specification annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 56 of 59 digital identifier An identifier that is primarily intended to provide unique and unambiguous feature identification for the purposes of exchanging feature based information between computer systems or associating data within a computer system direct sale A direct transaction between Ordnance Survey and a customer direct sale price Those prices that are applied where Ordnance Survey supplies OS MasterMap based products and services directly to customers estimate A single price being offered to the customer as the cost of a proposed service definition agreement feature An abstraction of a real world object It is not the real world object itself feature attribute See attribute geoid An imaginary shape for the Earth defined by mean sea level and its imagined continuation under the continents at the same level of gravitational potential georectified imagery The georectification method
42. e allows it to be displayed as a point in its correct position with regard to the National Grid and any other map based on the same reference system The best combination from the point of both clarity and the ability to derive additional value from both products is OS MasterMap Topography Layer which was used in figure 1 and is a large scale product ed between 1 1250 and 1 2500 scales Another example is given below in figure 2 Figure 2 OS MasterMap Topography Layer with Points of Interest At larger scales the real world features represented by the Points of Interest feature can clearly be seen A slightly smaller scale such as 1 10 000 scale colour raster or OS Street View a 1 10 000 scale product can also provide the necessary context Points of Interest user guide chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 9 of 59 zia m TU RI Tp IE mp ano Depot wi wi Schs a yi on SE TE L mRvs DE ROAD M i ii t Industrial N j Park amp i gg m Whart Z Figure 4 Points of Interest over OS Street View i SC Points of Interest user guide chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 10 of 59 OS MasterMap Imagery Layer a dataset providing aerial images can provide context that maps cannot In figure 5 shown below it is possible to see the types of activities that take place within the industrial units FIT
43. e point has been matched to an address and its building whilst a value of 3 for example would indicate that the point has been located to a road but not to the correct location on the road As with the verified address field it is important to consider this value when performing searches and queries For example a customer may wish to exclude all features that have a value other than 1 if only features that have a full address and have been assigned to a particular topographic feature best serve the purpose of the application A code value for the attribute and a look up table are used instead of a full text description because it reduces the amount of space and therefore the memory needed to store and search the data making it more efficient to use within GIS and database systems As with the features file it can easily be imported into a database table or spreadsheet to make it easier to read and query The first row of the file called a header row contains the names for the columns when importing into a tabular format Most systems would prompt to know if there is a header file when importing a text file Completeness file The text file completeness txt provides for each category down to the category level an estimate of the number of Points of Interest available as a percentage of the total in mainland Great Britain The data are provided in the form of an ASCII pipe delimited text file with a qualifier set to double quotes
44. eir correct National Grid position as shown in figures 1 and 2 It is not essential to use a GIS The file format can be imported into many databases or spreadsheets as a table although it will not be possible to view the data over a map without some spatially enabled system For more on the supply format see chapter 5 Date of supply This is the release date of the data Positional accuracy code This field provides an indication of the positional accuracy of the record in the form of a numeric code This code can be used to link to the positional accuracy look up table to identify the textual description associated with this numeric code In summary all the attribution within Points of Interest builds upon the classification to provide a means of searching by function for example all banks all estate agents to searching for a business or activity that has very specific criteria such as by name or along a street or within a particular postcode area 00 0 Points of Interest user guide chapter 4 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 19 of 59 Chapter5 Supply The supply of the Points of Interest dataset is very flexible Customers choose by geographic area and by group or category Geographic areas User defined area Customers can define their own areas These can be defined by supplying a list of National Grid 1 km tiles the south west and north east coordinates of a bounding box or an irregular shape created in a G
45. ervices 03 Construction services 04 Consultancies 05 Employment and career agencies 06 Engineering services 07 Hiring and contract services 08 IT advertising marketing and media services 09 Legal and financial 10 Personal consumer and other services 11 Property and development services 12 Recycling services 13 Repair 14 Research and design 15 Transport storage and delivery 03 Attractions 16 Botanical and zoological 17 Historical and cultural 18 Recreational 19 Scenic features 20 Tourism 04 Sport and entertainment 21 Entertainment support services 22 Gambling 23 Outdoor pursuits 24 Sports complex 25 Venues stage and screen 05 Education and health 26 Animal welfare 27 Education support services 28 Health practitioners 29 Health support services 30 Medical establishments 31 Primary secondary and tertiary education 32 Recreational and vocational education 06 Public infrastructure 33 Central and local government 34 Infrastructure support 35 Organisations 36 Publicly accessible facilities 07 Manufacturing and production 37 Consumer products 38 Extractive industries 39 Farming 40 Foodstuffs 41 Industrial features 42 Industrial products 09 Retail 46 Clothing and accessories 47 Food and drink 48 Household leisure and garden 49 Motoring 50 Multi item retail 51 Niche goods 52 Office IT and electrical 10 Transport 53 Air 54 Road and rail 55 Walking riding and cycling 5
46. es 0199 Clearance and salvage dealers 0198 Rag merchants 0196 Recycling reclamation and disposal 13 Repair and servicing 0204 Building repairs 0205 Electrical equipment repair and servicing 0206 Household repairs 0207 Industrial repairs and servicing 0147 Financial advice services 0138 Financial institutions 0796 Franchise and holding company services 0148 Fundraising services 0149 Insurers and support activities 0150 Mortgage and financial lenders 0151 Pawnbrokers 0154 Solicitors advocates and notaries public 0773 Stocks shares and unit trusts 0174 Party organisers 0175 Personalisation 0177 Photographic services 0775 Sculptors wood workers and stone masons 0793 Shoe repairs 0179 Sports services 0776 Tailoring and clothing alteration 0180 Tattooing and piercing services 0182 Trophies and engraving services 0777 Vehicle breakdown and recovery services 0183 Vehicle cleaning services 0185 Weather services 0186 Wedding services 0187 Wheel clampers 0188 Window cleaners 0195 Property information services 0192 Property letting 0190 Property sales 0200 Scrap metal merchants 0201 Vehicle breakers 202 Waste paper merchants 0209 Service industry equipment repairs 0210 Sports and leisure equipment repair 0211 Tool repairs 0212 Vehicle repair and servicing o Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 34 of 59 14 Research and design 0214 Design services 0
47. escue Service Northumbria Police Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service Nottinghamshire Police Oxfordshire Ambulance Service Oxfordshire Fire Service PointX RoadChef Motorways Ltd Royal Berkshire Fire amp Rescue Service Royal Mail Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scottish Ambulance Service Scottish Court Service Shaw amp Sons Limited Law Courts Shell Oil Products Ltd Shropshire Ambulance Service Shropshire Fire amp Rescue Somerset Fire Brigade South Wales Fire Service South Wales Police South Yorkshire Ambulance Service South Yorkshire Fire amp Rescue South Yorkshire Police Headquarters Sport Scotland Sports Council for Wales Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service Staffordshire Police Headquarters Strathclyde Fire Brigade Strathclyde Police Suffolk Fire Service Suffolk Police Surrey Ambulance Service Surrey Fire amp Rescue Surrey Police Sussex Ambulance Service Sussex Police Tayside Fire Brigade Tayside Police Tees East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service Texaco Ltd Thames Valley Police The Court Service Total UK Limited Transport for London Two Shires Ambulance Service Tyne amp Wear Fire Brigade Warwickshire Ambulance Service Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service Warwickshire Police Welcome Break Group Ltd Welsh Ambulance Service West Mercia Constabulary West Midlands Ambulan
48. feature or an edge of the feature s geographic extent although this cannot be guaranteed A positional accuracy of 3 indicates that the coordinates are placed centrally on the correct road As road lengths vary and the central position could be very near or a long way from the true location on the road it is difficult to say exactly how far these instances might be shown from their true location In the majority it is to be expected that the assigned coordinate could be up to a kilometre away with a small number being even farther A positional accuracy of 4 means that the location assigned is in the correct geographic locality such as the right village or industrial estate and that it has not been possible to locate to a specific relevant road Depending on how big the geographic locality in question is the record s true location could in reality be up to a few kilometres from the reported coordinates It is very important that customers take the positional accuracy value of the feature into account when using it in applications Addressing The data contains both addressable and non addressable records Structured address information is only provided for those records that are addressable and can be successfully matched against Ordnance Survey data Records that have not been successfully matched will not necessarily have structured address information supplied in the output Unique referencing Records have been attribu
49. formation on positional accuracy in this chapter and in chapter 5 and chapter 8 TOID version This identifies which version of the TOID is used for each record if a TOID is assigned but if a TOID is Not Assigned then the TOID version will be 0 Currently the TOID and versions are updated in the following manner PointX takes a full copy of OS MasterMap Topography Layer A process is run to update all TOIDS and versions within Points of Interest to match those in PointX s copy of OS MasterMap Topography Layer As and when new Points of Interest features are created or amended a process is run against the full OS MasterMap copy to pick up the relevant TOIDs versions These created or amended features are supplied to customers in their quarterly updates However PointX does not take a full resupply of the latest copy of OS MasterMap Topography Layer before each Points of Interest update so it is probable that a certain number of TOIDs versions will be different between a customer s holding of OS MasterMap Topography Layer and their holding of Points of Interest For more information on using the TOID and version number please see chapter 2 Verified address The verified address attribute indicates the confidence with which the address attributes can be used and its suitability for applications The attribute has a value of either Y or N indicating whether the provided address has been matched against Ordnance Survey address data by Po
50. ge 26 of 59 Figure 10 Points of Interest with symbology The symbol set is supplied in e Black and white bitmaps e Colour bitmaps e True type font Ck Points of Interest user guide chapter 7 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 27 of 59 Table 2 illustrates the colour symbols used for each of the 49 categories Points of Interest symbology 01 Accommodation eating and drinking 05 Education and health 01 Accommodation 26 Animal welfare EL 02 Eating and drinking tt 27 Education support services ta 28 Health practitioners and establishments 02 Commercial services 29 Health support services Md 03 Construction services 31 Primary secondary and tertiary education 4 04 Consultancies e 32 Recreational and vocational education X 05 Employment and career agencies L 06 Engineering services b 06 Public infrastructure 07 Hiring and contract services Lr 33 Central and local government a 08 IT advertising marketing and media services m 34 Infrastructure and facilities 09 Legal and financial 3
51. ibutor for Points of Interest PointX collects data from over 170 suppliers including Ordnance Survey They receive updates from these suppliers on an ongoing basis The suppliers are chosen for being the most authoritative source or sources for the particular type of feature they supply and for the quality and completeness of the data they supply It should be noted however that for many types of feature there is no absolute definitive source nor can any list of the types of features found in Points of Interest be said to be complete Points of Interest therefore comes with a number of indicators as to the likely currency positional accuracy or completeness of any given set which customers should take into consideration when using the data More information on these issues can be found in chapter 5 and chapter 8 PointX runs verification checks provides National Grid coordinates and classifies each feature PointX sends the data quarterly to Ordnance Survey which distributes it to customers Ordnance Survey manages the customer relationship The suppliers are responsible for providing the data to PointX in a manner and timescale agreed between each supplier and PointX Using Points of Interest The primary use of Points of Interest is to allow identification of different facilities or resources within the built and natural environment The data can be used within a table format such as a spreadsheet or a database to create gazetteer
52. ical specification chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 52 of 59 Chapter 3 Interest in PDT format Record structure The PDT file will contain the following fields separated by a pipe in this order Record Structures for the transfer of Points of FIELD NAME Entry DATA LENGTH COMMENTS always TYPE required RECORD_TYPE YES TEXT 1 This indicates the record type and is always going to be L for load UNIQUE REFERENCE NUMBER YES NUMBER Currently Unique identifier allocated unlimited but by PointX for each record unlikely to within the database exceed 12 figures for the foreseeable future SUPPLIER REFERENCE NUMBER NO TEXT 255 Enables each database record to be linked to additional information held by the data supplier Numbers text and pipes permitted Distributor only field TOID YES TEXT 20 Up to 16 digits Does not currently include the osgb prefix Can be Not Assigned Not Assigned is the value PointX will provide where a TOID number is not provided and is the exception TOID_VERSION YES NUMBER Currently Identifies which version of unlimited TOID is being used for length but each record If the TOID unlikely to value provided is Not exceed 5 Assigned then the value of figures for the the TOID_VERSION will be foreseeable 0 zero future NAME YES TEXT 255 Name of the organisation or record provided by the data suppl
53. ier for example Southampton General Hospital Can be the Classification for example Council Office or Newspaper And Magazine Publisher ADDRESS DETAIL NO TEXT 255 Not always supplied for a VERIFIED ADDRESS The field will be null if VERIFIED ADDRESS N 0 0 MENENENMENIEERsENNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENI Points of Interest technical specification chapter 3 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 53 of 59 FIELD NAME Entry DATA LENGTH COMMENTS always TYPE required STREET NAME NO TEXT 255 Not always supplied for a VERIFIED ADDRESS The field will be null if VERIFIED ADDRESS N LOCALITY NO TEXT 255 Matched addresses VERIFIED ADDRESS Y must contain the name of the postal town that the feature is located within For extra clarification when an address has a dependent locality within it this will prefix the postal town in the resulting output with a comma separating the 2 elements POSTCODE NO TEXT 255 Matched addresses VERIFIED ADDRESS Y must contain the postcode that the feature is located within In practice this field will have a maximum of 8 alphanumeric characters VERIFIED ADDRESS YES TEXT 1 A flag of Y indicates the provided address has been matched against Ordnance Survey Address and amended accordingly A flag of N means not matched and structured semi automatically TELEPHONE_NUMBER YES TEXT 255 Contains telephone number
54. intX and amended accordingly Y or has not been matched against Ordnance Survey address data N In the latter case any information supplied by the source of the data will be included in the relevant field as outlined below E NNI Points of Interest user guide chapter 4 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 17 of 59 For example if features are supplied with only a postcode or partial postcode the information will be included in the postcode attribute field but the verified address value will be N The customer ultimately must use these quality indicators to determine the appropriateness of the data for the applications in question For example for some applications they may only wish to use records with a verified address value of Y Name This is the name of the organisation or feature provided by the data supplier for example Southampton General Hospital Where the source of the data does not specify a specific name for the premise then the activity or function is reported based on the classification Address detail For records that have an address successfully matched against Ordnance Survey address data this attribute will contain the building name or number with a sub premise name and dependent thoroughfare if applicable For an unmatched address any entry in this field is drawn from any location information that was provided with the data from the original supplier Any location information contained within the sou
55. ire amp Rescue Service Cambridgeshire Constabulary Cambridgeshire Fire amp Rescue Service Central Scotland Fire Brigade Central Scotland Police Cheshire Constabulary Cheshire Fire Service City of London Police Cleveland Fire Brigade Cleveland Police Cornwall County Fire Brigade COsys Management Information Services Golf Courses Cumbria Ambulance Service Cumbria Constabulary Cumbria Fire Service Derbyshire Constabulary Derbyshire Fire amp Rescue Devon amp Cornwall Constabulary Devon Fire amp Rescue Dorset Ambulance Service Dorset Fire and Rescue Service Dorset Police Driving Standards Agency Dumfries amp Galloway Fire Brigade Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Authority Durham Constabulary Dyfed Powys Police East Anglian Ambulance Service East Midlands Ambulance Service East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service Essex Ambulance Service Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Essex Police Esso Retail Petroleum Services Ltd Fife Constabulary Fife Fire amp Rescue Service Gloucestershire Ambulance Service Gloucestershire Constabulary Gloucestershire Fire amp Rescue Grampian Fire Brigade Grampian Police Greater Manchester Ambulance Service Greater Manchester Fire Service Greater Manchester Police Gwent Police Hampshire Ambulance Service Hampshire Constabulary Hampshire Fire amp Rescue Hereford amp Worcester Ambula
56. kups The LOOKUPS directory may include updates to the Lookups for a specific release C Points of Interest technical specification chapter 1 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 51 of 59 Chapter 2 Pipe Delimited Text PDT File Format The PDT format Pipe Delimited format is a text file format similar in principle to the more common CSV or Comma Separated Variable format PDT is a de facto standard method for delivering data PDT has been chosen instead of Comma Separated variables because some of the attribution may contain commas for example within addresses This is one of the simplest data formats in which to supply data PDT can be imported and used in most desktop spreadsheet or database applications as well as within more complex geographical information systems Once imported it may be possible depending on the application to export to word processing or presentation packages Rules for holding Points of Interest in PDT Points of Interest information in PDT is held within individual fields Each field is either textual can contain letters or numbers for example SO515RU or numeric for example 21 Each field is separated from the next by the ASCII pipe symbol which is a keyboard symbol often found on the backslash key If the field is textual or should be treated as a character field even when the stored value is a number then the text is enclosed in double quotes 0 00 Points of Interest techn
57. lpieces 0480 Footwear 0481 Furniture 0482 Garden goods 0483 Giftware 0485 Hobby sports and pastime products 0487 Jewellery gems clocks and watches 0488 Lampshades and lighting 0489 Leather products 0490 Lingerie and hosiery 0491 Luggage bags umbrellas and travel accessories 0471 Medals trophies ceremonial and religious goods 0493 Musical instruments 0494 Photographic and optical equipment 0495 Saunas and sun beds 0497 Tents and camping equipment 0498 Tobacco products CL Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 38 of 59 38 Extractive industries 0500 Coal mining 0501 Oil and gas extraction refinery and product manufacture 0502 Ore mining 0503 Peat extraction 39 Farming 0508 Animal breeders not horses 0509 Arable farming 0510 Bee keepers 0511 Dairy farming 0512 Fish and shellfish 0513 Forestry 0514 Fruit flower and vegetable growers 40 Foodstuffs 0522 Alcoholic drinks 0523 Animal feeds pet foods hay and straw 0524 Baking and confectionery 0530 Catering and non specific food products 41 Industrial features 0531 Business parks and industrial estates 0532 Chimneys 0533 Conveyors 0534 Energy production 0535 Lighting towers 0536 Lime kilns 42 Industrial products 0544 Abrasive products and grinding equipment 0783 Access equipment 0545 Adhesives and sealants 0546 Aeroplanes 0547 Agricultural machinery and goods 0548 Air and water filtr
58. maps of Great Britain at all scales It provides an unambiguous spatial reference for any place or entity in Great Britain object based data Data in which one entity feature represents one real world object for example a building or land parcel Co Points of Interest technical specification annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 57 of 59 offline supply The supply of data to a customer on physical media examples CD and DVD online supply The supply of data to a customer using Internet technologies order A request from a customer for the supply of data The scope of an order may be constrained by an agreement for a period licence service orthorectified imagery The Imagery Layer is orthorectified An ortho image is achieved through a rigorous mathematical modelling of the camera position direction and the terrain surface at the moment of image exposure A software process is then able to move each of the pixels in the image individually into its correct National Grid position The process eliminates displacements due to image perspective and pointing direction the aircraft is moving and rolls around all axes and topographic relief and therefore results in an image having the same geometric properties as a map projection pay as you go See Pay as you use service Pay as you use service A service provided by Licensed Partners giving access to Ordnance Survey data for business use on a transaction basis as an added val
59. me and adventure parks 0268 Tourist information centres 0269 Unspecified attractions 0274 Firework displays 0275 Funfair services 0276 Mobile discos 0 o NENENNENMNHMNAKkR amp E RNM NEEEEENEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 35 of 59 22 Gambling 0277 Amusement parks and arcades 0278 Bingo halls 0279 Bookmakers 23 Outdoor pursuits 0282 Angling and sports fishing 0283 Combat laser and paintball games 0284 Hot air ballooning 0770 Outdoor pursuit organisers and equipment 24 Sports complex 0288 Archery facilities 0289 Athletics facilities 0290 Bowling facilities 0291 Climbing facilities 0292 Golf ranges courses and clubs 0293 Gymnasiums sports halls and leisure centres 0294 Ice rinks 0297 Motor sports 0298 Racecourses and greyhound tracks 25 Venues stage and screen 0308 Cinemas 0762 Conference and exhibition centres 0311 Discos 05 Education and health 26 Animal welfare 0316 Animal clipping and grooming 0317 Dog training 0318 Horse training 0319 Kennels and catteries 27 Education support services 0324 Education authorities 0325 Education services 0326 Examination boards 0280 Casinos 0281 Pools promoters 0285 Parachuting and bungee jumping 0286 Paragliding and hang gliding 0321 Riding schools livery stables and equestrian centres 0287 Water sports 0299 Shooting facilities 0300 Ski slo
60. nce Service Hereford amp Worcester Fire Brigade Hertfordshire Constabulary Hertfordshire Fire amp Rescue Highlands amp Islands Fire Brigade Historic Houses Association Humberside Fire Brigade Humberside Police Isle of Wight Ambulance Service Isle of Wight Fire amp Rescue Kent Ambulance Service Kent County Constabulary Kent Fire Brigade Lancashire Ambulance Service Points of Interest user guide annexe B v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 43 of 59 Lancashire Constabulary Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service Leicestershire Constabulary Leicestershire Fire amp Rescue Lincolnshire Ambulance Service Lincolnshire Fire amp Rescue Lincolnshire Police Little Cheff London Ambulance Service London Fire Brigade London Metropolitan Police Lothian amp Borders Fire Brigade Lothian amp Borders Police Mersey Regional Ambulance Service Merseyside Fire Service Merseyside Police Mid amp West Wales Fire amp Rescue Service Moto Murco Petroleum Limited National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux National Trust for Scotland Norfolk Constabulary Norfolk Fire Service North East Ambulance Service North Wales Fire And Rescue Service North Wales Police North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service North Yorkshire Police Northamptonshire Constabulary Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service Northern Constabulary Northumberland Fire and R
61. ng this classification therefore provides an opportunity to store the data in an efficient way In summary the classification provides a twofold benefit It breaks the data into logical groups that the customer can tailor to their own requirements and it comes in a structure that can be adapted to take advantage of modern database management techniques A Points of Interest user guide chapter 3 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 16 of 59 Chapter4 Attribution Each record is supplied with a standard set of attributes The following section describes the nature of each of the attributes Please note that in some cases some attributes may not be populated Record type This identifies the record type and is used to facilitate updates Currently only one value L load is used In the future however this may be expanded to provide more information on change Unique reference number URN This unique numeric identifier is allocated for each record within the database It will be retained by the record throughout its life cycle and will never be reused In general as only one record represents the feature the URN will be persistent The URN would change if a new supplier is found for that type of feature There may be more than one supplier for any type of feature Wherever practical only one supplier s data will be used for any single feature although it is not always possible to do this A URN may also alternate when a supplier p
62. not been included in the sizes listed above Fields with null data will appear empty Each record will be terminated with a carriage return character ASCII 13 and a line feed character ASCII 10 Example of a Points of Interest record EL 18712384 1000000235502642 4 Sewage Pumping Station N 06340441 341059 354356 31 DEC 2001 2 E Points of Interest technical specification chapter 3 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 55 of 59 AnnexeA Glossary The purpose of this chapter is to provide a glossary of terms used in the definition of products services licensing and other terms and conditions for Points of Interest Where terms refer to other terms within the glossary they are connected by means of hot links to the relevant entries account Every OS MasterMap customer has an account This is more than just a financial account but is an overarching term for the agreements orders access rights and financial arrangements that a customer has with Ordnance Survey application service provider ASP A company that offers individuals or enterprises access over the Internet to an application programmes provider for example GIS and related services that would otherwise have to be located in their own personal or enterprise computers This may also include access to relevant related data area of interest The spatial extent that a customer has access to for a specific product This area of i
63. nterest may include a number of different spatial extents The area of interest is an integral part of a contract area of order The spatial extent of data requested by a customer as part of an order It may comprise a number of different spatial extents but all of them will fall completely within the customer s area of interest associated data A dataset held by third parties that has been linked to features within OS MasterMap by means of identifiers TOIDs attribute Any item of information packaged to a Points of Interest feature The reference number and the geometry of the feature are both examples of the attributes of the feature attribute set A group of attributes that can legitimately be used together commercial service provider See application service provider ASP complex feature A feature that is a collection of other features An example could be a feature representing a river composed of many area and line features representing parts of the river contract The agreement that a customer has for access to Ordnance Survey products and services The contract will include a time period the number of terminals the data will be used on and a set of terms and conditions coordinate transformation A computational process of converting an image or map from one coordinate system to another customer An organisation or individual that makes use of Ordnance Survey s data supply facilities This includes both direct sales
64. ompletely customisable in terms of the way a customer chooses to symbolise the points The way in which the data appears on a screen is likely to be a combination of the wishes of the customer and the functionality of the system being used to display the points The simplest way is to render all points with a single colour and as a single shape as in figure 9 below ES u Vi E Figure 9 Points of Interest with a single symbol Many GIS have tools that provide many options for rendering data on screen The availability of such choice can make the development of a style guide for a dataset a time consuming task To that end Ordnance Survey has developed a set of symbols to use with the Points of Interest dataset so that customers can render the data very quickly These are available free from Ordnance Survey and can be used within most GIS The symbols are based on the level 2 classification This symbolisation has been used to produce the other figures in this document Using a symbol set that makes use of the level of category means that the viewer can understand the information quickly Compare figure 9 above with figure 10 below showing Points of Interest data rendered with the supplied symbols It is possible to get an idea of the range and type of features that are in this area without querying the attribution 0 0 oo NENNEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 7 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Pa
65. or list type applications that allow people to search for a particular facility or resource These applications make use of the attributes supplied on each feature and depend on the application system having a searching or querying facility that the customer can supply with search criteria For example a query could be run to find out how many banks are within a certain locality or to compare the distribution of a number of different facilities across certain postcodes by using the classification and address attribution To extract the fullest possible value from the data it is best viewed and analysed within a GIS that can use the coordinates to display each feature s geographic location as a point in combination with a topographic map The combination of Points of Interest with topographic mapping gives context to the features which cannot be derived from using it within a table or spreadsheet It also provides the opportunity depending on the functionality of the GIS to e group the features into other subsets of data e combine the data with a customer s own complementary datasets e customise the appearance of the Points of Interest features to suit the customer s requirements Ordnance Survey provides a suggested set of symbols to get customers started and e extend the queries on the attributes by using a spatial element Lr Points of Interest user guide chapter 1 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 7 of 59 Taking the above e
66. orings and unloading facilities 0760 Ferries and ferry terminals 0754 Rivers and canal organisations and infrastructure 0752 Locks 0755 Weirs sluices and dams 57 Transport access points 0731 Bus and coach stations depots and companies 0738 Railway stations junctions and halts 0732 Bus stops 0758 Taxi ranks 0759 Hail and ride zones 0756 Tram metro and light railway stations and stops 0794 London underground entrances 0761 Underground network stations 00 00 o o NENNEN Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 42 of 59 AnnexeB Points of Interest provenance The following percentages are indicative only They are correct at the date of issue of this document but are subject to change without notice Provenance Contribution Ordnance Survey 46 THOMSON Directories 37 Department for Transport NaPTAN 9 UK Payphone Directory 4 LINK Interchange Network Ltd Cash Machines 1 Education Direct 1 Beechwood House Publishing Ltd Health Data 1 Additional Suppliers to Points of Interest supplying lt 1 of total features ASDA Stores Ltd Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions Avon amp Somerset Constabulary Avon Ambulance Service Avon Fire Brigade Bedfordshire amp Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service Bedfordshire and Luton Fire and Rescue Service Bedfordshire Police BP Oil UK Buckinghamshire F
67. pes 0301 Snooker and pool halls 0302 Sports grounds stadiums and pitches 0303 Squash courts 0304 Swimming pools 0305 Tennis facilities 0306 Velodromes 0312 Nightclubs 0314 Social clubs 0315 Theatres and concert halls 0320 Pet cemeteries and crematoria 0322 Veterinarians 0323 Veterinary pharmacies 0799 Playing for success centres 0800 Secure units E Points of Interest user guide annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 36 of 59 28 Health practitioners and establishments 0780 Accident and emergency hospitals 0330 Alternative natural and complementary 0364 Chemists and pharmacies 0333 Chiropodists 0365 Clinics and health centres 0367 Dental laboratories 0368 Dental surgeries 0335 Dental technicians 0337 Dieticians and nutritionists 0369 Doctors surgeries 29 Health support services 0356 Ambulance services 0357 Blood transfusion service 0358 Counselling and advice services 0359 Health authorities 31 Primary secondary and tertiary education 0379 Broad age range and secondary state schools 0375 First primary and infant schools 0376 Further education establishments 0381 Higher education establishments 32 Recreational and vocational education 0384 Ballet and dance schools 0385 Beauty and hairdressing schools 0388 Diving schools 0389 Drama schools 0390 Driving and motorcycle schools 0391 First aid training 0392 Flying schools 0394 Language schools 06 Public infrastructure
68. r 5 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 20 of 59 After this initial full supply the customer will receive full re supplies containing any updates to their selected dataset A full re supply has the same customer order criteria as the original full supply Supply of updates is nominally on a quarterly basis and Ordnance Survey will use reasonable endeavours to meet this schedule Please see the Points of Interest pages on the Ordnance Survey website for further information on release dates The suppliers of the source data provide updates at different frequencies For example some may provide their new amended or deleted features every two months whilst with others it may be every six months or only once a year This means that the currency of the data will vary and customers may notice a time lag between a change to a building s activity on the ground and that change being reported within Points of Interest Ordering Points of Interest Points of Interest can be ordered by contacting the Customer Contact Centre through an Ordnance Survey account manager or via a form on the website Due to the commercially sensitive nature of some of the data there are certain restrictions on who can order the product For further information on these restrictions please contact Ordnance Survey The order will come with the data files themselves and a number of text files containing important information regarding the data Each file is described below
69. rce data may be used such as a building name but it cannot be guaranteed as being valid for the feature identified It is therefore imperative to take the verified address attribute value into account when using other address attributes Street name For records that have been successfully matched against Ordnance Survey address data this will contain the name of the thoroughfare that the feature is located on For an unmatched address any entry in this field is drawn from any location information that was provided with the data from the original supplier It may or may not be the road on which the feature is located As with any attribute that forms part of the address always check the verified address attribute for the feature s status Locality For records that have been successfully matched this will contain the name of the postal town in which the feature is located For extra clarification when an address has a locality within it both will appear as the attribute the locality will prefix the postal town The two elements locality and post town are separated by a comma With an unmatched address any available information supplied with the data may be used but it cannot be guaranteed that it is the correct postal town As with any attribute that forms part of the address always check the verified address attribute for the feature s status Postcode For features that have been successfully matched this will contain the post
70. rovides multiple instances of the same feature This means that duplication is kept to minimum The value of a unique reference is twofold Firstly the most efficient way to hold this data is in a tabular form usually within either a GIS or a database When searching storing indexing and retrieving data such technology can use unique references to speed up these processes and also increase the efficiency with which the system stores the data Secondly having a unique reference for a feature means any ambiguity between features that may be very alike or identical in every other respect can be removed TOID This is a unique identifier provided on features within Ordnance Survey s OS MasterMap Topography Layer product Please refer to chapter 2 for more information on the value of using the TOID The coordinate assigned to the Points of Interest feature is compared against OS MasterMap Topography Layer and the TOID is allocated based upon where this coordinate falls In most cases this will be within a building where the activity or resource takes place In some instances the position of the Points of Interest cannot be established to this level of accuracy and so the TOID field will contain the value Not Assigned and the TOID version field will be 0 as the feature within which the coordinates locate the point could be an entirely different type of feature such as the road or the pavement or even an adjacent premise There is more in
71. rpose for which it is licensed to your organisation or business but not otherwise No part of this guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronically for commercial exploitation without the prior written consent of Ordnance Survey No part of this guide may be copied or incorporated in products services or publications that you generate for onward sale or as free promotional or support materials without the prior written consent of Ordnance Survey Some elements of this user guide are PointX Ltd copyright and are used with the kind permission of PointX Ltd Data copyright and other intellectual property rights The Crown or where applicable Ordnance Survey s suppliers owns the intellectual property rights in Ordnance Survey digital map data Full details of the terms and conditions under which Ordnance Survey digital map data may be processed and or manipulated or copied by a customer whether or not for use on PCs or workstations or for making hard copies are available from the Customer Service Centre please see contact details You should check the terms and conditions with us before using the data It is also the responsibility of the holder of the digital map data to ensure that any plotted or printed output contains the required copyright and database acknowledgements in a conspicuous position Trademarks Ordnance Survey the OS Symbol Ordnance Survey Options OS OS MasterM
72. rvices 0098 Catering services 0099 Construction and tool hire 0100 Contract cleaning services 0101 Display and window dressers 0102 Drain and sewage clearance 0103 Hotel booking agencies 0069 Image consultants 0070 Interpretation and translation consultants 0071 Security consultants 0072 Telecommunications consultants 0074 Traffic management and transport related consultants 0079 Modelling and theatrical agencies 0081 Nursing agencies 0082 Recruitment for armed forces 0089 Instrumentation engineers 0090 Marine engineers and services 0091 Mechanical engineers 0092 Pneumatic engineers 0093 Precision engineers 0094 Structural engineers 0104 Leisure equipment hiring 0105 Linen hire and washroom services 0107 Office services 0108 Packers 0109 Pest and vermin control 0110 Renting and leasing of personal and household goods 0111 Sound light and vision service and equipment hire 0112 Ticket agents 0113 Vehicle hire and rental 08 IT advertising marketing and media services 0114 Advertising services 0115 Artists illustrators and calligraphers 0116 Computer security 0117 Computer systems services 0118 Concert exhibition organisers and services 0119 Database services 0120 Desktop publishing services 0121 Electronic and internet publishers 0122 Film and video services 0123 General computer services 0124 Internet services 0125 Literary services 0126 Mailing and other information services 0127 M
73. s 0433 Electrical features 0435 Fire safety features 0437 Gas features 0456 Halls day and community centres 0457 Letter boxes 0458 Libraries 0438 Meteorological features 0459 Places of worship 35 Organisations 0769 Community networks and products 0446 Fan clubs voluntary organisations charities and trusts 0448 Institutes and professional organisations 0449 Political parties 07 Manufacturing and production 37 Consumer products 0464 Baby and nursery equipment 0790 Bathroom fixtures fittings and sanitary equipment 0465 Beds and bedding 0466 Brushes 0467 Candles 0468 Canvas goods 0470 Carpets flooring rugs and soft furnishings 0472 China and glassware 0473 Clothing components and accessories 0785 Conservatories 0474 Cookers and stoves non electrical 0475 Cosmetics toiletries and perfumes 0476 Curtains and blinds 0477 Cutlery and tableware 0478 Disability and mobility equipment 0486 Disposable products 0479 Domestic appliances 0460 Public telephones 0461 Public toilets 0462 Recycling centres 0440 Refuse disposal facilities 0427 Rescue infrastructure 0442 Telecommunications companies 0443 Telecommunications features 0444 Utility companies and brokers 0463 Vicarages rectories and church buildings 0441 Waste storage processing and disposal 0802 Wifi Hotspots 0450 Religious organisations 0447 Sports clubs and associations 0452 Youth organisations 0782 Fireplaces and mante
74. s a dataset containing over 3 8 million different geographic features All features are supplied with location functional information and addresses where possible It has been available continuously since 2002 The product covers all of Great Britain This user guide describes the main features of the data suggests how customers can use the data and explains how the data are supplied Whilst some of the more technical information may be of greater interest to those using the data on a regular basis within applications everyone reading this user guide will gain an understanding of the key concepts of the data and the benefits an organisation can obtain from using it within location based applications Points of Interest has a three level classification to assist customers in identifying the features or sets of features they require This classification is explained in detail in chapter 3 of this user guide but to illustrate the wide range of features included within Points of Interest the first level of classification comprising nine groups is given below e Accommodation eating and drinking e Commercial services e Attractions e Sport and entertainment e Education and health e Public infrastructure e Manufacturing and production e Retail e Transport As each feature is provided with a national grid coordinate it can be visualised as points on a map using a geographical information system GIS When the data are combined with topogr
75. se within GIS and database systems As with the features txt file it can easily be imported into a database table or spreadsheet to make it easier to read and query The first row of the file called a header row contains the names for the columns when importing into a tabular format Most systems would prompt to know if there is a header file when importing a text file Positional accuracy look up file The look up file provides the descriptions or values associated with the positional accuracy code attribute The look up file is called postional_accuracy_lookups txt The data are provided in the form of an ASCII pipe delimited text file with a qualifier set to double quotes An extract from the file is shown below 1 Positioned to the address or location 2 Positioned to an adjacent address or location 3 Positioned to the road within the address or location 4 Positioned within the geographical locality The customer would use this in the following manner When looking at the attributes of the feature the positional accuracy attribute contains a value from 1 4 By searching for that number within this text file the customer can find a textual description of the accuracy A feature that has the value of 1 for this attribute has the highest level of positional accuracy and a value of 4 is the lowest The textual descriptions of the value given above indicate the actual positioning so a value of 1 would indicate that th
76. takings commitments and obligations given by Ordnance Survey about the product and or its suitability for any particular or intended purpose are set out in your customer contract It is your responsibility to ensure that this product is suitable for your intended purpose Ordnance Survey does not accept any liability whether for breach of contract negligence or otherwise for any loss or liability you or any third party may suffer in relying on this guide and any guidance suggestion advice or explanation provided in it Any liability that Ordnance Survey has to you in relation to the product its supply use accuracy data supplied functionality or any other liability arising out of or in connection with the product is limited as set out in your customer contract We may change the information in this guide at any time without notice We do not accept responsibility for the content of any third party websites referenced or accessed in or through this guide any contractual documentation and or the Ordnance Survey website 0 00 o NENNEN Points of Interest user guide preface v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 4 of 59 Copyright in this guide This guide including for the avoidance of doubt any mapping images reproduced herein is Crown copyright 2008 All rights reserved Any part of this guide may be copied for use internally in your organisation or business so that you can use the product for the pu
77. ted with both a TOID and TOID version which have been directly derived from area features within the OS MasterMap Topography Layer based on the grid reference of the feature There will be a very small number of features where a TOID value will not be provided because the feature does not sit within the correct OS MasterMap Topography Layer polygon and these will have a TOID value of Not Assigned and a TOID version of 0 0 o NENNEN Points of Interest user guide chapter 8 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 29 of 59 Classification PointX relies upon over 170 data suppliers to provide the initial classification of each of the records This is then used to allocate the appropriate class to the feature This can lead to cases where different classes are applied to the same real world feature dependent upon the base classification used by the different data suppliers As part of the production process for the current product involves the removal of multiple instances of what is believed to be the same feature it is possible that individual instances of what are in fact the same type of feature can be reported in different classes Completeness Most Points of Interest categories are between 81 to 100 complete The completeness of the dataset is improved and maintained through e use of the most definitive sources for the data wherever possible e rigorous update cycles and e customer feedback
78. that a feature has been altered Version numbers will be allocated sequentially with version 1 representing the creation of the feature CL Points of Interest technical specification annexe A v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 59 of 59
79. their own tables but allows a query to link them together on demand to provide the requested information from each Points of Interest comes with each feature having its own unique reference number so that such associations can be made relatively easily In addition a link already exists within the Points of Interest dataset if a customer also takes OS MasterMap Topography Layer Each feature within OS MasterMap Topography Layer has a unique reference called a TOID Each TOID has a version number Whenever there is a geometric change such as an extension to a building or a realignment of a fence or an attribute change the version number is incremented to reflect the fact that different versions of the same feature have existed over time ke Points of Interest user guide chapter 2 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 12 of 59 The example below explains how data association works Each OS MasterMap Topography Layer area feature has as part of its attribution a calculated area value in square metres If a customer wanted to find out the approximate area of square metres given over to eating establishments within a certain area of a town centre it would be possible to search the Points of Interest dataset for all features within the eating category The TOIDs from the records returned can be cross referenced to the OS MasterMap Topography Layer table to return the area values from the records that match In figure 7 below all the eating pl
80. tion 2 1 7 11 inl ibis inh biel Bek eae hale 50 FUG SIZOS E 50 Points of Interest directory structure ssssssssssssseeneeee ener 50 Pipe Delimited Text PDT File Format eren 52 MI dZPI UT 52 Rules for holding Points of Interest in PDT 52 Record Structures for the transfer of Points of Interest in PDT format 53 Record str ct re i nep t t e cu Rae Ende a E REEERE E aac nd 53 GIOSSANY 56 v2 7 09 2008 Points of Interest technical specification contents v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 48 of 59 Introduction Purpose of this specification and disclaimer This is the technical specification hereafter referred to as the specification applicable to the Points of Interest hereafter referred to as the product which is referred to in the Framework Direct Licence Specific Use Framework Partner Licence or your other customer contract for the product We may change the information in this specification at any time giving you the notice period specified in the customer contract made between you and Ordnance Survey We do not accept responsibility for the content of any third party websites referenced or accessed in or through this specification any other contractual documentation and or
81. to map the Points of Interest classification to the Local Government Business Category List V1 using the keyword search facility Each feature has a classification code as part of its attribution that comprises the group category and class numbers In figure 8 below the estate agency has the following code 02110190 Figure 8 Classification This breaks down as Group 02 Commercial services Category 11 Property and development services Class 0190 Estate agencies SSC Points of Interest user guide chapter 3 v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 15 of 59 This means that it easy to use GIS or database tools to search analyse and display features based on their class When used in conjunction with the attribution it is possible to compile a list of the names and addresses of estate agents within a given geographic area Classification provides structure to the data which helps when storing it a way of ordering the data a means of visualising the data and a way for customers to find the features they are interested in quickly The structure of Points of Interest can be described as relational in nature Each group has one or more categories below it Each category in turn has one or more classes related to it This type of structure is used extensively in database management technologies as it provides a way of storing the data that reduces the amount of space the data requires and speeds up the retrieval of information Havi
82. ue service PAYU Pay as you use period licence A licence to use a data product or any other value added service or product derived from detailed datasets for business use for an agreed period of one or more years It covers the initial supply of the data and supply of updates period licence service A service provided to customers by Ordnance Survey or Licensed Partners giving access to Ordnance Survey data for business use including update maintenance The service will be for a defined period These services will be available under a period licence agreement point A pair of coordinates point feature A feature representing a real world object The geometry of a point feature is a single point a pair of coordinates with optional size and orientation positional accuracy The accuracy of the feature geometry relative to the coordinate spatial reference system real time An immediate response The processing of data by a computer as rapidly as the data is input or within some small upper limit of response time This is not synonymous with online real world object The real thing represented by a feature for instance a building a section of fence the boundary of a wood a sharp change of gradient representative point A point feature used to represent a real world object for example centroids seeds area labels SLA Service level agreement LL Points of Interest technical specification annexe A v2 7 09 2008
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84. utdoor pursuits 5 24 Sports complex 5 25 Venues Stage And Screen 5 26 Animal welfare 5 27 Education support services 5 28 Health practitioners And Establishments 5 29 Health support services 5 30 Medical establishments 5 31 Primary Secondary And Tertiary education 5 0 0 A Points of Interest user guide annexe C v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 45 of 59 Category Category description Code 32 Recreational And Vocational education 5 33 Central And Local government 5 34 Infrastructure And Facilities 5 35 Organisations 5 36 Publicly accessible facilities 5 37 Consumer products 5 38 Extractive industries 5 39 Farming 5 40 Foodstuffs 5 41 Industrial features 5 42 Industrial products 5 43 Consumer products 5 44 Foodstuffs 5 45 Industrial products 5 46 Clothing Accessories 5 47 Food Drink 5 48 Household Leisure Garden 5 49 Motoring 5 50 Multi item retail 5 51 Niche goods 5 52 Office IT Electrical 5 53 Air 5 54 Road Rail 5 55 Walking Riding Cycling 3 56 Water 5 57 Transport access points 5 A Points of Interest user guide annexe C v2 7 09 2008 Crown copyright Page 46 of 59 AnnexeD Product and service performance report form Ordnance Survey welcomes feedback from its customers about Points of Interest If you would like to share your thoughts with us please print a copy of this form and when completed post or fax it to the address below Bol Mai EMEN ae a a ok Be VER Oe
85. xample of banks a GIS could calculate the distance between each bank to judge how far apart they actually are or from a position supplied by the customer This could be a feature such as a car park or a train station or a coordinate supplied from a mobile phone The customer could also input a geographic area such as an electoral ward within which the GIS could return a list of all the banks that fall within that boundary It is also recommended that customers update their holdings from Ordnance Survey at the very least every six months and more frequently if possible to make sure that they comply with the terms of their licence and so that their applications are always serving the most current version of the data Quarterly updates are included for all Points of Interest licences A customer can extend the functionality by linking their own data to the Points of Interest dataset and use both with other Ordnance Survey products to derive extra value and further datasets In summary Points of Interest provides a customer with e over 600 different classifications of features supplied from the most authoritative sources available e a flexible method of ordering data by classification and by area up to national coverage e the attribution to develop location finding and facility distribution applications and e access to regular updates so that applications can be kept current 0 0 0 o MENENENMERRNMNEEEEMEMO NMNMN
86. y data and specialised geocoding software is used to achieve this and to provide a confidence level indicator of positional accuracy for each record Data that cannot be given coordinates due to insufficient location or address detail are not included The positional accuracy falls into one of the following categories e Positioned to the location or address e Positioned to an adjacent location or address e Positioned to the road within the address or location e Positioned within the geographic locality Typically The majority of records are positioned on or adjacent to the address or location of the feature A very small proportion of records are positioned to the road within the address or location or within the geographic locality of the feature This is used only for ATMs cash machines and public telephones where the data is sourced from a single authoritative and non duplicated source All geometries are represented as points If the positional accuracy is stated as 1 see chapter 5 the coordinates should fall within the footprint of the real world feature in question typically a building or structure Where the positional accuracy is stated as 2 the coordinates will either be placed centrally in the text that relates to the feature and may be within the extent of the feature or will be positioned close to the true location of a part of the feature In practice it will probably be within 10 metres of either the
87. y or class from the table More information on the LGBCL including a downloadable copy of the list can be found on its website SIC search file Customer feedback had indicated that users of PointX data would benefit from knowing how the Points of Interest classes relate to the SIC Standard Industrial Classification codes As an initial step for linking up with existing systems the SIC list terms held in the SIC 2003 classification have so far been classified and provided in the PO Class To SIC Lookup txt file It is an ASCII pipe delimited text file similar to the Keywords txt file An extract from the SIC search file is given below 04220277 Amusement Parks and Arcades ee ames LI 04220278 Bingo Halls 9271 9200 04220279 Bookmakers 9271 9200 04220280 Casinos 9271 9200 04220281 Pools Promoters 9271 9200 As with the features file it can easily be imported into a database table or spreadsheet to make it easier to read and query The first row of the file called a header row contains the names for the columns when importing into a tabular format Most systems would prompt to know if there is a header file when importing a text file There is also supporting documentation in the form of the file S C_Documentation_Sep07 pdf This explains how to use the SIC file and provides an example of how to read the relevant class from the table Descriptive Class reporting file This is

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