Foreword By Nancy von Meyer This book is a compendium of the best papers presented during 4 years of URISA Street Smart and Address Savvy Conferences. The book also contains additional papers that are being published here for the first time. The need for this publication has come from several fronts. URISA’s membership has had a keen interest in the use of address information and its application for data integration and decision support for many years. Nearly every URISA Annual Conference has had sessions and tracks related to addressing, there have been several addressing standards task forces, and in the past few years the Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference has been a highly successful stand-alone specialty event on the topic. The importance of emergency response has been highlighted in the year since September 11, 2001. Address is a critical component of emergency response and hence a critical part of homeland security. The time had come to pull together a summary of some of the recent thinking on address standards, address design and address applications. This compendium begins with five papers related to address design and the use of addresses in databases and geographic information systems (GIS). Mike Walls describes how to begin an address design project and focuses on the work of a data modeler confronted with designing an address database. Morten Lind provides an international taste of address formulation. The potential of a simple data element that can release "spatial power" is enormous because thousands of private and public databases reference address information. Morten’s paper is based on experiences with standardization, data modeling, legisla- tion and geo-coding of address data in Denmark and in other Scandinavian countries. Dan Parr, Scott Oppmann, and I describe an approach to addressing that is a part of a land management system. This paper is new and reflects the design work as of late summer 2002. Amy Purves then examines how to combine multiple sources of street information into a single useable data system. Andrew Pidgeon wraps up our design papers with a discussion about data quality. Those of you who manage and use address information recognize the importance of data quality in address systems. As Andy reminds us, both the technological revolution and the business evolution have put a premium on high-quality information as the key to success. The remaining papers explore various case studies on the uses and implementation of address information, especially in emergency management. Jay Meehl and Chris Boyd describe their experience in Douglas County, Colorado. They highlight the original design and plan, attribution, quality control, and implementation of a geocodable road centerline. Agencies that want to begin this type of project will gain insight into issues such as linear interpolation errors, parity problems, and multiple address databases. Peirce Eichelberger and Louise B. Wennberg describe the many benefits of GIS and 911 integration as experienced in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The County has taken an integrated approach to GIS and 911, from the Master Street Address Guide (MSAG) through current implementation and support. In a previously unpublished paper Andrew Pidgeon describes how realtors use geocoding to spatially enable the multiple listing service (MLS). Geocoding brings information to life. This paper might help you sell your geocoding project and foresees many other uses for street and address files. In another unreleased paper Greg DiGiorgio describes the problems and solutions concerning street and parcel addressing in geographic information systems for municipal governments. We found Greg through a web search and were very impressed with the work he has done in building consensus and data sharing. From Newport News to Texas, Marc Berryman describes the Greater Harris County 911 Emergency Network at work in Houston, Texas. This is one of the most technologically advanced 911 systems in the nation with spatial data being maintained and updated on a daily, and often hourly, basis. For the last three years, the Urban Planning Department at the University of Florida has been involved in various grants assisting Miami-Dade County, Florida in the mapping of pedestrian and bicycle crashes within their jurisdiction. Florida is currently one of the worst states in the nation in terms of the number of pedestrian and bicycle crashes each year, and Miami-Dade County consistently has the greatest number of crashes in the state. This is another unique application of the address. The value of address matching is that it reveals the spatial relationships of the incidents, thereby aiding in the evaluation and definition of a large-scale problem. Ilir Bejleri, Scott Wright, Ruth Steiner, and Richard Schneider explain their research and use of address information. Sandra Johnson’s paper on an Internet transit trip planner describes a project that started as an Internet- based job placement tool. It was intended to help job placement workers, human resource personnel/trainers and employers route their clients and employees to work, training, childcare and other destinations using the city’s bus system. There are two address implications here. First, this project uses geocoding to locate transit riders and with so many address projects moving to Internet, and second this is a nice review of considerations for any Internet application project. Lastly, Dan Parr and I have done a review of some of the address standards that may help you locate related standards and to look at the other activities that may help you set your own. About the Editor Nancy von Meyer is Vice President of Fairview Industries, providing consulting, education, and GIS implementation services to government agencies and the private sector. Nancy works with many counties and local governments on parcel, land records, and system design for automation and modernization projects. She is also active with federal initiatives related to the FGDC Cadastral Data Content Standard, the National Integrated Lands System (NILS), eastern states cadastral initiatives and other land records projects. She recognizes that the address is a critical component of all land management systems. Nancy von Meyer, PhD, PE, RLS Fairview Industries 233 East Main Street PO Box 100 Pendleton, South Carolina 29670 voice (864)-646-2755 fax (864) 646-2712 [email protected] Addressing for Emergencies Table of Contents Foreword by Nancy von Meyer..............................................................................................v About the Editor ..................................................................................................vii Selected Papers “The Object of the Address” Michael D. Walls Street Smart And Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2000 .........................1 “Developing a System of Public Addresses as a "Language" for Location Dependent Information” Morten Lind Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2001..........................16 “Oakland County, Michigan Address Standards And Database Design” Nancy von Meyer, Dan Parr and Scott Oppmann .................................................30 “First Step to Addressing the Street Dictionary” Amy J. Purves Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2000..........................44 “Enterprise Data Quality Management: The Time Has Come” Andrew D. Pidgeon Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2000..........................57 “E911 Multi-Path Approach to Data Capture and Address Range Creation” Jay Meehl and Chris Boyd Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2001..........................64 “The Benefits Of Gis/911 Integration—An Approach Worth Emulating” F. Peirce Eichelberger and Louise B. Wennberg Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2001..........................75 “Geocoding Brings Information to Life” Andrew Pidgeon ....................................................................................................90 “City of Newport News, Virginia GIS Addressing Issues” Greg Digiorgio.......................................................................................................95 “Location Based Technologies and E911” Marc E. Berryman Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2002..........................100 “Difficulties of Timely and Accurate Address Matching” Ilir Bejleri, Ph.D., Scott Wright, Ruth Steiner, Ph.D. and Richard Schneider, Ph.D. Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2002..........................107 “Internet Transit Trip Planner” Sandra Johnson Street Smart and Address Savvy Conference Proceedings, 2001..........................120 Appendix and Reference Materials Address Compendium Authors..............................................................................132 Appendix A: Address Standard Review - Overview Nancy Von Meyer and Dan Parr ...........................................................................136 NENA Addressing Standard..................................................................................145 United States National Grid – FGDC Standard.....................................................147 EPA Addressing Standards....................................................................................148 Kansas Addressing Standards................................................................................149 THE OBJECT OF THE ADDRESS Michael D. Walls Introduction Why is integrating