About Address Loader

Cadcorp SIS Address Loader loads and manages updates of AddressBase products, supplied by the Ordnance Survey. 

The AddressBase® products include the best parts of:

  • Local government’s National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG),
  • Ordnance Survey’s OS MasterMap Address Layer 2 and
  • the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF).

Cadcorp SIS Address Loader reads all three data products as zipped CSV files and can load the data into predefined schema in widely-used database products ( Microsoft® Office Access, Microsoft® SQL Server®, PostGIS®, and Oracle®.”)

Many addressing applications can simply work with the address data being held in a database. 

However GIS and web mapping systems use the location information associated with an address. This means the address should be specified as a point feature in the GIS or spatial-enabled database. 

Cadcorp AddressBase Loader provides this option automatically. The Loader creates the necessary geometry fields in the database schema and populates these fields as part of the data loading process.

Note: Oracle connections require the server details to be in Oracle Instant Client format, e.g. //10.0.2.7:1521/QAORC007.

Format Support

The Cadcorp Address Loader only supports AddressBase products supplied as Comma Separated Values (CSV).  Please ensure you order your supply of AddressBase in this format.