CITY OF PRATTVILLE, AL ADDRESSING

CITY OF PRATTVILLE, AL ADDRESSING

Geospatial Data Structure

Prattville, Alabama

- Address Numbers determined by grid

- City center of origin

- Not based on current thoroughfares

AUTAUGA COUNTY AND PRATTVILLE: County wide dataset does exist, however not updated, maintained, or standardized to meet our needs.SOLUTION: Field Verification

POPULATION

County 50,000City 35 – 40,000

Roughly 13,000 city addresses

2.5 year time frame to visit each

COMPLETED

One Dot = One Address

To Date: 16,521 addresses visited

DATA COLLECTED- Owner – Address - Date Visited - Land Use - Structure

Condition - Business Name -Former Occupant - Image Capture & Hotlink

“IM – PA - HOE”

Field Transportation:

Used like a 4X4 Tahoe

Does more ‘off-roading’ than most 4X4’s

SACTTEREDADDRESS

STRUCTURES

Difficult to reach, secluded addresses

Multiple addresses – one property – scattered GPS readings ? Or straight line in the parcel?

Drive / traverse every driveway, trail, unpaved road, etc. …

Over 50,000 Parcels

Point Layer Data based on parcel geometric center

Not all parcels addressed

Many contain mailing address in different, city, county, state.

North Pole GIS- So many agencies

rely on address data sharing: Utilities, Postal Service, etc

- Inconvenience of address change, phone calls to utilities, banks, insurance agencies, etc.

- Bad time of year to change address, can even mess up Santa’s GPS

DO NOT DISREGARD OLD DATAExcellent historic reference

Consult each time new address is assigned to avoid overlooking retired addresses

Outdated technology vs. User Comfort Level … Created in MS Paint

ADDRESS DATABASE SOURCES

Point & Click

GPS Collection

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Inter-Agency Sharing

IMPERATIVE EQUIPMENT IN ADDRESSING

NEGATIVE DATA ACQUISITION

Addressing Authority

G.I.S.

911

Police

Fire

Emergency Management

Engineering

Development

U.S.P.S. FED EX, UPS

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

CITY OF PRATTVILLE, ALABAMARYAN PECHARKA, G.I.S. COORDINATOR

ryan.pecharka@prattvilleal.gov334-361-3613