WRT to the FGDC address data standard. The capacity to connect related addresses (aliases, alternate names and historic names) together is an important feature.
Carl Anderson cander...@spatialfocus.com carl.ander...@vadose.org (sent from my phone) On Aug 11, 2010 9:28 AM, "Lord-Castillo, Brett" < blord-casti...@stlouisco.com> wrote: > In the midst of all this discussion of prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, and directions... > I just want to point out that the federal address standard has passed through the public comment period and is now in committee review. It is expected to become a federal regulation in early 2011. > http://www.urisa.org/about/initiatives/addressstandard > This is a federal address -data- standard encompassing the required government formats for address data for all possible address formats used in the United States and US territories. The USPS has already developed a new address profile to conform to this standard (basically a extension to ISO 19106 and Publication 28). The Census has signed on as well, and the next version of TIGER will likely implement the FGDC proposal. > The standard is presented as a tag based model expressed in xml. It would probably be a serious mistake to ignore it. It actually directly addresses (in address data content) all of the issues that are getting hashed over here, and quite a few that have not been brought up yet (like dual and quad number addresses). > > Brett Lord-Castillo > Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer > St. Louis County Police > Office of Emergency Management > 14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive > Chesterfield, MO 63017 > Office: 314-628-5400 > Fax: 314-628-5508 > Direct: 314-628-5407 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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