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URISA Leads Effort to Standardize National Address Data
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April 21, 2005 (Park Ridge, IL) - The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) recently accepted a proposal submitted by the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) to create a Street Address Standard. The objective of this effort is to create data content, classification, transfer, and quality standards for street addresses. URISA submitted a formal proposal to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to begin the work. The proposal was accepted.
"This is an effort to further improve coordination of geographic data and information. Over many decades and under the control of thousands of local jurisdictions, the different address formats and types pose a number of complex issues for society. As a consequence, government agencies struggle to integrate large, mission-critical files into master address repositories," said Ivan DeLoatch, staff director of the Federal Geographic Data Committee, an interagency committee housed at USGS. "This project is fulfilling our vision to provide seamless, reliable, and current geographic information at the fingertips of the Nation."
Street addresses are the location identifiers most widely-used by state and local government and the public. Street addresses are critical for administrative, emergency response, research, marketing, mapping, geospatial information systems, routing and navigation, and for law enforcement and first-responders in time of crises.
For the past six years, URISA has sponsored and organized the annual Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference (endorsed last year by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), the United States Postal Service (USPS), and the Census Bureau), covering a broad spectrum of addressing issues and practices. Further, within the past year URISA has signed Memoranda of Understanding with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee making URISA a USGS Partner and FGDC Stakeholder.
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is a long-standing national consortium organized in 1990 by the Office of Management and Budget to facilitate the development of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
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