Please Review the Draft FGDC Addressing Standard
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is conducting a public review of the draft United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard. The United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard applies to addresses of entities having a spatial component and covers data content, data classification, data exchange, and data quality. The FGDC Coordination Group, comprised of representatives of Federal agencies, approved releasing this draft standard for public review at its March 16, 2010 meeting. The FGDC invites both public and private sector data users, producers and software vendors to comment on this standard to ensure that the standard meets their needs.
The draft United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard, as well as National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and Postal profiles, may be downloaded at DraftAddressStandardPDFs.zip. Reviewer’s comments shall be sent to Julie Binder Maitra, of the FGDC Secretariat via electronic mail, jmaitra@usgs.gov by June 16, 2010. While not required, please cc Jeff Brown at CGIA, jeff.brown@nc.gov. Reviewers should follow Directive #2d, Standards Working Group Review Guidelines: Review Comment Template, http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/process/standards-directives/directive-2d-standards-working-group-review-guidelines-review-comment-template, when preparing their comments. The review comment template is available at http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/process/standards-directives/template.doc.
Comments that concern specific issues/changes/additions may result in revisions to the draft United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard. After evaluation of comments, participants will receive written notification of how their comments were addressed by electronic or postal mail. After formal endorsement of the standard by the FGDC, the standard and a summary analysis of the changes will be made available to the public on the FGDC website.
For more information go to: http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/street-address/address-standard.