FGDC Document Number XX Street Address Data Standard (Working Draft 2.0) Address Standards Working Group The Subcommittee on Cultural and Demographic Data Federal Geographic Data Committee November 2005 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _Federal Geographic Data Committee Department of Agriculture • Department of Commerce • Department of Defense • Department of Energy Department of Housing and Urban Development • Department of the Interior • Department of State Department of Transportation • Environmental Protection Agency Federal Emergency Management Agency • Library of Congress National Aeronautics and Space Administration • National Archives and Records Administration Tennessee Valley Authority Federal Geographic Data Committee Established by Office of Management and Budget Circular A-16, the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geographic data. The FGDC is composed of representatives from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, State, and Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Federal Emergency Management Agency; the Library of Congress; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the National Archives and Records Administration; and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Additional Federal agencies participate on FGDC subcommittees and working groups. The Department of the Interior chairs the committee. FGDC subcommittees work on issues related to data categories coordinated under the circular. Subcommittees establish and implement standards for data content, quality, and transfer; encourage the exchange of information and the transfer of data; and organize the collection of geographic data to reduce duplication of effort. Working groups are established for issues that transcend data categories. 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.............................................................................................................................3 Related Standards .....................................................................................................................4 Standards Development Procedures .........................................................................................4 Maintenance authority ..............................................................................................................4 Acronyms Used Throughout the Standard ...............................................................................5 Part 1: Street Address Data Content .....................................................................................6 Introduction..............................................................................................................................6 1.1 Organization...................................................................................................................6 1.2 Simple, Complex, and Attribute Elements.....................................................................6 1.3 Notation for Constructing Complex Elements ...............................................................7 1.4 Open Discussion Item 1: Abbreviating Street Directionals and Types..........................7 1.5 Open Discussion Item 2: Use of FIPS Codes and Similar Codes within the Standard ..8 1.6 Open Discussion Item 3: Start and End Dates ...............................................................9 1.7 Address Elements.........................................................................................................10 1.8 Address Attributes........................................................................................................36 Part 2: Street Address Data Classification .............................................................................52 Introduction............................................................................................................................52 2.1 Basis for Classification.................................................................................................52 2.2 Organization.................................................................................................................52 2.3 A Note on Puerto Rico Addresses................................................................................52 2.4 Formatting Conventions...............................................................................................53 2.5 Address Classes............................................................................................................54 Part 3: Street Address Data Quality..................................................................................65 Introduction............................................................................................................................65 3.1 Existing Standards and Documents Describing Spatial Data Quality..........................65 3.2 About Observing Address Quality ...............................................................................68 3.3 Testing Address Quality...............................................................................................68 3.4 Tests for Simple Elements............................................................................................70 3.5 Tests for Complex Elements ........................................................................................77 3.6 Address Attribute Elements .........................................................................................79 3.7 Tests for Address Classes.............................................................................................92 3.8 Intersection Addresses................................................................................................107 3.9 Landmark Addresses..................................................................................................108 3.10 Postal Service Delivery Addresses.............................................................................110 Part 4: Street Address Data Transfer ...................................................................................111 Introduction..........................................................................................................................111 4.1 Structure of a Transfer Package .................................................................................111 4.2 The XSD Data Model.................................................................................................114 Appendix A: Existing Standards Appendix B: Table of Element Relationships Appendix C: XSD File iii Federal Geographic Data Committee FGDC Document Number XX Street Address Data Standard (Working Draft 2.0) Introduction 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. As a consequence, government agencies struggle with these issues as they seek to integrate large, mission-critical files into master address repositories. In sponsoring the creation of the Street Address Data Standard, the FGDC has sought to convene, under the auspices of its Subcommittee on Cultural and Demographic Data, interested parties from among the local, state, federal, and non-government sectors to create a forum wherein these issues can be resolved, thereby helping to make our spatial data infrastructure truly national. Objective The Street Address Data Standard provides, in four separate parts, data content, classification, quality, and exchange standards for street, landmark, and postal addresses: Data Content provides semantic definitions of a set of objects. This part specifies and defines the data elements that may appear in or describe street, landmark, and postal addresses. Data Classification provides groups or categories of data that serve an application. Classification data are the attributes common to elements of a group. This part defines classes of addresses according to their syntax, that is, their data elements and the order in which the elements are