Seven Leading States Share What Makes Their Address Programs Successful

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Geospatial leaders from Minnesota, Utah, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Kansas, Vermont, and New York share best practices for successful integrated Addresses in their statewide geospatial infrastructure. These states received top marks for their Address theme in NSGIC's 2019 Geospatial Maturity Assessment (see the NSGIC GMA Dashboard). These state programs roll-up point addresses from hundreds of local government authoritative providers and update on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Addresses are among the NSDI National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) themes that form the common core set of digital spatial information for the Nation.

Summary of Best Practices

• Connect the value proposition with public safety
• Proper funding is key, with policy to back it
• It's all about relationships - with champions, local government partners, and private sector partners

These honor roll states noted two major challenges in building a strong address data set:

• Technology: in addition to potentially being expensive, building, acquiring, and developing technology, software, data models, and workflows can prove challenging.

• Building strong networks with local municipal support and coordinating with

  local governments.
  
  

Read more about the challenges and solutions in NSGIC Best Practices: Addresses https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6987787/2020-6-24-Best-Practices-Addresses.pdf

 

 

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