Addressing Summit

On 18-19 October 2005, the Queensland Spatial Information Council (QSIC) hosted a two day Addressing Summit.

The summit - the first of its type in Australia - covered a number of addressing issues currently being experienced across the spatial industry, with a focus on what's happening in Queensland.

A Street Smart and Address Savvy seminar was held on the first day of the Addressing Summit, followed by a workshop on the second day.

The key themes arising from the Addressing Summit included:
* awareness and use of addresses by the public, including incorrect addressing
* awareness and adherence by organisations to addressing standards
* addressing data issues including timeliness of data, access to data, lack of knowledge of data sets and data flows, validation of data and the temporal alignment of custodial source data
* a common repository or element for addressing data
* a consistent approach to the geo-coding of properties
* fiscal costs of incorrect addressing
* properties with more than one dwelling 
* legal ramifications of using incorrect addressing
* the various types of addresses that are used by organisations.

Proposed strategies and solutions include:
* a recommendation to form a QSIC Addressing Working Group
* public awareness and organisational addressing campaigns
* reviews of organisational addressing needs and data
* shared infrastructure.