Idox customers sweep up Exemplar Awards at the GeoPlace Annual Conference 2024
Idox is delighted to announce that many of our iManage customers were recognised for their achievements in the collation, curation and management of address and street data at the Exemplar Awards, hosted at the GeoPlace Annual Conference on 21 May.
These accolades reflect the progress, change or improvement in systems and processes run by the local authority Address and Street Custodians, and are a highly reputed acknowledgement of outstanding achievement. We congratulate all our award-winning customers for maintaining such high standards in addressing and positively impacting their communities as a result. Here are some of the highlights:
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames wins the Data Linking Award
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames won the Data Linking Award for its exceptional commitment to ensuring the integrity and scope of data collection before the 2021 Census. This project uncovered 3,000 additional properties within the Royal Borough and the London Borough of Sutton, including HMOs, student accommodations and houseboats. As a result, new wards were established in Kingston to ensure proportional representation across the borough.
Karen Hawkes from Denbighshire County Council wins the Peer Award
The Peer Award was won by Karen Hawkes, Custodian for Denbighshire County Council and until her very recent retirement, Wales Address Chair and Wales Deputy Street Chair.
Karen’s outstanding contribution to the addressing and street community has included her tireless promotion of the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) and Local Street Gazetteer (LSG) across council services. This has resulted in increased use and improved quality of data in even the most challenging situations, such as the implementation of shielding calls during the pandemic.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham wins the Improvement Award for Addresses
We congratulate all the winners of GeoPlace’s Exemplar Awards, which set out to recognise the hard work local authority Custodians are undertaking to improve and maintain first-class quality address and street data.
GeoPlace also highlighted the outstanding work carried out by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, which won The Improvement Award for Addresses. This Award is given to the local authority that makes the biggest improvement across GeoPlace’s Improvement Schedule criteria between April 2023 and March 2024.
As always, many iManage users were recognised as Platinum Award winners for maintaining the Gold standard in meeting the address data improvement and street data improvement schedule criteria between April 2023 and March 2024.
Claire Russell, Idox’s Product Manager for Address Data Solutions comments,
“We congratulate all the winners of GeoPlace’s Exemplar Awards, which set out to recognise the hard work local authority Custodians are undertaking to improve and maintain first-class quality address and street data. We’re delighted that as users of Idox’s iManage Gazetteer Management System for the LLPG / LSG, so many councils are winning awards and achieving the highest standard in data quality for address and street data. As we take our GMS into the cloud next month, we hope to see many more users recognised for their outstanding work managing the LLPG / LSG next year.”
Exemplary address and street data enables more targeted and efficient delivery of services to residents, so the work achieved by these award-winning councils has a huge impact on the communities they serve.
