Hello Community, Addressing to all FME users for United Kingdom, just wanted to know if someone is using FME for managing Gazetteer data, specially with BS7666 databases, which is the British Standard for Gazetteer data management.

@miquelrs

I use FME to;

Run FME workspaces on a weekly basis to identify which properties do and don't have Council Tax cross references from a weekly file from Revs & Bens, the ones without the cross references need to have the CTax reference added

The same process for Elections, but on a monthly basis

I have specific workspaces that run views in the BS7666 DB but need converting to .SHP format for use in QGIS. We are a MapInfo site, so .TAB is our default file format for GIS

These are basic tasks but they are a lot quicker than manually running it via MapInfo, plus the change to .shp is so much easier in FME

More interesting is i've been able to use FME to generate a point dataset of street furniture images (which all have a UPRN) taken with a smartphone by colleagues, plus using FME to calculate the width of highways in our District for use by waste services. Although OS have this information in the Highways dataset it isn't complete for Daventry

Simon Hume

Hello Simon, thanks for your reply. We use the database quite a lot for similar purposes as the ones you mentioned. One of the things is to compare with CTAX and Business rates info from Revs&Bens, as you do, for later manually updating pertinent references in the gazetteer.

However, we're pretty much looking forward on automating the update process when possible as opposed to doing the changes manually, which takes a lot of time. Any progress in automated updates of BS7666 database?

Kind regards,

Miquel