Towards an international address standard

Serena Coetzee, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Antony Cooper, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa, Morton Lind, National Survey and Cadastre Denmark, Martha McCart Wells, Spatial Focus, United States, Sara Yurman, Spatial Focus, United States, Ed Wells, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC, United States, and Nick Griffiths and Michael J. Nicholson, Intelligent Addressing, United Kingdom

9/22/2008
(Original Publish Date: 2000)

Address standards have been developed and are still being developed by a number of countries (e.g. South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Denmark and the United States of America) and international organizations (e.g. Universal Postal Union (UPU), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. (OASIS). More recently, these standards have tended to include geospatial components and to cater for other forms of service delivery and not just postal, such as goods delivery, connecting utilities, routing emergency services and providing a reference context for presenting other information. The time is right for bringing these various initiatives together to develop one, common international address standard.