Providing Certainty in Addressing - A Revised Street Addressing Standard Anselm Haanen Deputy Surveyor-General, LINZ Brian Goodchild Manager, Geographic.

Providing Certainty in Addressing - A Revised Street Addressing Standard

Anselm Haanen Deputy Surveyor-General, LINZBrian Goodchild Manager, Geographic Names & Addressing

Landgate, Western Australia

Presentation Outline

• Importance of good addressing

• Aims of the addressing Standard

• Development of the Standard

• Significant aspects of and changes in the Standard …

Addresses are important

But where’s the ambulance?

Impact of poor addressing

• People can’t locate the property

• Emergency service responses impeded

• Disaster management and recovery impeded

• Government agencies, businesses, and the public bear unnecessary costs

• Wasted effort, usually repetitive, trying to resolve address conflicts

• AS/NZS 4819:2011 Rural and Urban Addressing

• Replaces initial 2003 version

• Developed for Australia and New Zealand

• Public consultation process

• Directed at local government

– 67 territorial authorities in NZ

– 560 councils in Australia

New Addressing Standard

Aims and Scope of Standard

• To ensure the assignment of addresses that can be readily and unambiguously identified and located

• Addresses to be as simple as possible

• Excludes specific postal requirements

• Excludes data management and transfer

• Applies to ‘new’ addressing – not retrospective

Approach to specifying requirements

• Enduring

• Mandatory (‘shall’)

• Desirable (‘should’)

• Separate Guidelines for ‘helpful’ and ‘useful’, and for further interpretation

– Further development, as issues arise

– National consistency

Sections in Standard

2. Address information

3. Naming and defining localities

4. Naming and defining roads

5. Address number assignment

6. Water-based addressing

7. Address mapping / geocoding

8. Signage

Highlights ….

Mandatory Address Components

1. Address number (incl. any additional sub-address numbering components or a suffix)

2. Name of the road (or water based feature)

3. Locality (in NZ can include both a suburb or rural locality and town/city sufficient to ensure the combination is unique)

4. State / Territory (if in Australia)

Examples of address components

Number: 399 2/15 6A

Road Name:

Carlton Road Smith Street Allen Road

Locality: Kalgoorlie SpringvaleGrey Lynn, Auckland

State / Territory:

Western Australia Victoria (n/a)

Defined locality boundaries

Suburb unique for address

13 Cecil Road 13 Cecil RoadMt Eden EpsomAuckland Auckland

Are these simply different addresses for the same property?

Road naming

• Applies to all formed roads accessible by the public, even in private ownership

– retirement villages - university campuses

– hospital grounds - forests and national parks

• Road Name Types mandatory and limited. Not allowed:

– Drivers Rest - Greendale Spur

– Lakeside Villas - The Willows

• Road names to be unique in area

– Smith Lane vs Smith Street – not allowed

• Origin-Destination road names - not allowed

• State Highway # - not a road name

Road navigability

Navigable sections of road must be continuous

Number allocation

• Number ranges not allowed (eg. ‘15-19’)

• Reserve numbers for possible future use

• Sub-addressing at a primary address (eg. 5/27)

• ‘Hotel’ numbering for multi-level sub-addresses

Number allocation

• Use of suffixes for infill development (eg. 27A)

• Suffixes limited to A, B, C, D, E

Number based on main access point

Number based on main access point

Addressing in complexes

Water-based addressing

• For sites accessed by water

• Based on distance from datum point

Geocoding / Mapping

• Every address must be geocoded to a point

• Geocode can be shared (eg. apartments)

Signage

Ta da!!

• Purchase from Standards NZ or Standards Australia

• Agency promotion

• Solid foundation

• Certainty and reliability of addressing

• Huge benefits

Questions?

Anselm Haanen Deputy Surveyor-General, LINZ