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Progress Report by Members of URISA Core Committee
Carl Anderson, GIS Manager, Fulton County
Sara Yurman, Director of Information Services, Spatial Focus, Inc.
Street addresses are the location identifiers most widely-used by state and local government and the public. Street addresses are critical information for administrative, emergency response, research, marketing, mapping, GIS, routing and navigation, and many other purposes. Because they have evolved over many decades, under the control of thousands of local jurisdictions, in many different record and database formats, and to serve many purposes, different address formats and types pose a number of complex geoprocessing and modeling issues.
In the spring of 2005, the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) accepted a proposal submitted by URISA (Urban & Regional Information Systems Association) to create a Street Address Standard. URISA Past President Martha Lombard, GISP, and former Board Members Hilary Perkins, GISP and Ed Wells, GISP are leading this effort on URISA's behalf. Additional Core Committee team leaders include Carl Anderson, Anne O’Connor, and Sara Yurman.
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 results of this consensus-driven process will be submitted through the FGDC's formal standards approval process. If they are accepted, the Census Bureau will maintain the standards under the auspices of its duties as theme lead for the Federal Subcommittee on Cultural, Society, and Demographics