Addressing Issues

White Paper
Best Practices
Related Documents
NSGIC Conference Presentations (PowerPoints)
Address Work Group Members and Contributors

White Paper
The White Paper describes the need for good address data then looks at the current situation, resulting problems, and best practices. It makes recommendations on how state and local government, along with the private sector, can work to meet deliver good add. The paper is presented in a glossy, 4-page document called Addressing Coordination Issues.

Best Practices
The Work Group documented work in seven states that have statewide address systems, plus one county. They also looked at recommendations for ideal systems as developed by NENA (National Emergency Number Association), MetroGIS, and GINIE (Geographic Information Network In Europe). These have collected as Best Practices.

Related Documents
In the course of developing the White Paper, the Work Group developed or discovered other documents that may be of interest to people interested in address issues. These include:

• A Master Address File for State and Local Government. This 2006 URISA paper documents why the US Bureau of the Census is unable to share its Master Address File and calls on state and local government to develop their own.
• Address Ranges in TIGER Products Explained. Randy J. Fusaro, Geography Division, US Census Bureau, answers questions about the TIGER update cycle and cases where TIGER address ranges might not provide a robust basis for locating individual addresses. May 2007.
• Statement of Need. A more detailed list of reasons why we need good address data.
• URISA/NENA Draft Address Standard. This is an executive summary. October 2006.

NSGIC Conference Presentations (PowerPoints)

2009 Annual Conference

• Overview of Draft U.S. Address Data Standard, Martha McCart Wells, Address Standards Working Group (SlideShare)

2008 Annual Conference Address Lessons Learned Session

• Session overview and Oregon Transportation Map, Will Craig, Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information, and Ed Arabas, Oregon Department of Administrative Services (980 KB)
• Virginia, Dan Widner, Virginia Geographic Information Network (73 KB)
• Vermont, David Brotzman, Vermont Center for Geographic Information (137 KB)
• Indiana 1, Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana Geographic Information Council (1.14 MB)
• Indiana 2, Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana Geographic Information Council (1.14 MB)
• West Virginia, Craig Neidig, US Geological Survey (1 MB)
• Ohio / West Virginia Contrast, Joe Seppi, Woolpert, Inc. (1.64 MB)

2008 Midyear Conference

Transportation & Addressing (3/10/08; 3:30-5:00 PM) - Address presentations only

• Addresses for the Nation, Will Craig, Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information, and Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana Geographic Information Council (2.14 MB)
• IndianaMap is Infratructure, Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana Geographic Information Council (4.66 MB)
• TIGER: Supporting the U. S. Census Bureau and the NSDI, Robert A. LaMacchia, U.S. Census Bureau (108 KB)
• USPS® Address Management. Ruth Jones, United States Postal Service (111 KB)
• 9-1-1 Addressing Data Needs, Patrick Halley, National Emergency Number Association (121 KB)

2006 Midyear Conference

• Geospatial Data Sharing, Robert LaMacchia, U.S. Census Bureau (193 KB)
• What does the National Research Council Say? Will Craig, University of Minnesota and Mapping Science Committee (147 KB)
• Bureau of the Census and West Virginia Opportunities and Challenges for 2010 Craig Neidig, West Virginia Statewide Addressing and Mapping Board and State GIS Coordinator (13.4 MB)

Address Work Group Members and Contributors (2007-2008)

Co-Chairpersons

Will Craig, Minnesota
Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana

Work Group Members
NSGIC State Representatives

Michael Byrne, California
Craig Johnson, Lousiana
Matt Laick, Delaware
Michael Ouimet, Texas
Ivan Weichert, Kansas

Other members and contributors

Bill Bates, TeleAtlas
Marc Berryman, NENA (National Emergency Number Association)
Gordon Chinander, Metropolitan Emergency Services Board
Pedro Flores, National Association of Counties
Randy Fusaro, U.S. Census Bureau
Robert Hanson, Michael Baker Corporation
Mark Kotz, MetroGIS
Dave Mockert, GeoAnalytics
Craig Neidig, USGS / West Virginia
Ed Wells, URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association)

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