The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is conducting a public
review of a draft United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal
Address Data Standard. This standard covers address data content,
classification, exchange, and quality.
The United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard is an address data transfer standard developed by the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in conjunction with the FGDC. The MetroGIS Address Workgroup participated in some of the early development work and has been tracking the standard over its five-year development period.
The standard is quite lengthy, compiled in seven PDF documents comprising
603 pages. This is far more information than will be of interest to most
people working with address data. MetroGIS has focused its attention mainly
on the Content portion of the standard. That is the portion of the standard
that will likely be of greatest interest to address data practitioners.
The MetroGIS Address Workgroup and the MnGeo Standards Committee coordinated submission of a combined set of comments on behalf of the Minnesota geospatial community. A joint meeting of the groups was held in St. Paul on May 26th, led by Mark Kotz who conveniently chairs both groups. The goal was to provide a comprehensive and thorough review of the standard representing as broad a cross-section of Minnesota's geospatial data community as possible. However, anyone could independently submit comments directly to the FGDC.
Questions? Contact Mark Kotz.