Astun have set up a National Address Search web service, which is based on the standard Address Search Request used by iShare. The National Address Search service has been populated with national coverage of AddressBase® Premium data. At present it is provided on a beta service.The
This service is hosted by an EC2 Instance using an iShareData Astun database as a Data Share and an osdata database as the source. The data is then scheduled to refreshed refresh at a chosen day and time.
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The Council is responsible for ensuring that any contractors are fully compliant with OS Licensing arrangements for AddressBase Premium and legal obligations from those licence arrangements. The service should only be used for Council specific work, and not for any other address searches by the contractors with whom the Council are engaged.
Future enhancements
Over the course of the beta period Astun may wish to introduce:
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An upper limit to the pagesize of inbound requests;
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Additional request monitoring tools;
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