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Title: Addressing: Where Do We Start


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Addressing Where Do We Start?
Presentation for West Virginia Emergency
Telecommunicators Conference January 16, 2003 by
Marc Levesque Addressing Project Lead Baker
Project Management Team
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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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Introduction Marc Levesque
  • Addressing Project Lead for WVSAMB
  • Member, Baker Project Management Team
  • Former project manager, Maine E9-1-1 statewide
    addressing project
  • Managed 7.5 year E9-1-1 addressing effort.
  • Addressing guidebook for local governments.
  • Interfaced with Verizon, USPS, GIS office.
  • Worked with public safety agencies.

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Introduction Jeff Bice
  • Manager, Addressing Management Systems
  • U.S. Postal Service, Charleston office
  • All counties, except four in northern panhandle

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Glossary of Terms
  • ANI Automatic Number Identification
  • ALI Automatic Location identification
  • MSAG Master Street Address Guide
  • ESZ Emergency Service Zone
  • ESN Emergency Service Number

6
Glossary of Terms
  • TN/Site Matching Linking a telephone subscriber
    number to a physical location (street address)
  • PSAP Public Safety Answering Point
  • NENA National Emergency Number Association
  • E9-1-1 Enhanced 911 emergency telephone service
    that automatically displays the physical location
    of a caller

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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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West Virginia E9-1-1 Addressing and Mapping
Project Overview
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West Virginia Statewide Addressing and Mapping
Board
  • Created by WV Legislature in 2001.
  • Advance WV infrastructure
  • Statewide digital mapping
  • Standard city-style (street) addressing
  • Manage 9-1-1 addressing and mapping fund.
  • Adopt appropriate rules and standards.
  • Provide advice and support.

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Key Project Goals
  • Create statewide E9-1-1 mapping layers.
  • Develop digital road centerlines with attributes.
  • Create 500,000 to 600,000 street addresses.
  • Review quality of existing street addresses.
  • Convert addresses for E9-1-1, tax files, post
    office, telephone companies, utilities, etc.
  • Develop MSAG and ESZs.
  • Create addressing mapping maintenance
    infrastructure.

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Photogrammetric Base Maps
  • Orthophotography creates accurate maps.
  • Create road centerlines, building footprints, and
    address points.
  • Include driveways, bridges, streams, and other
    items that help to navigate.
  • Road centerlines to meet Census and NENA formats.

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Orthophoto Map
13
Road Layer
14
Road Names Address Ranges
15
Address Points
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Maps Addresses
  • Goal is to link each telephone number to a
    permanent, unique address that clearly identifies
    where a caller is physically located.
  • Maps are helpful to show emergency service zones,
    jurisdictions, place names, and especially the
    callers location (landline and wireless).

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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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WV E9-1-1 Addressing Process
  • Develop standards.
  • Design overall addressing process.
  • Map essential layers for addressing.
  • Enlist county and municipal cooperation.
  • Support local government.
  • Encourage address ordinance adoption.

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WV E9-1-1 Addressing Process
  • Addressing contractor activities.
  • Old to new address linking.
  • USPS address conversion.
  • TN/Site Matching for ALI.
  • MSAG and ESZ development.
  • Address and mapping maintenance.

20
West Virginia E9-1-1Addressing Process
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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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Roles and Responsibilities
  • WV Statewide Addressing and Mapping Board
  • Project Manager
  • Contractors for Mapping Addressing
  • Counties Municipalities
  • Verizon Other Telcos
  • US Postal Service
  • Emergency Response Agencies

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West Virginia Statewide Addressing and Mapping
Board
  • Set standards.
  • Establish process.
  • Serve as advocate.
  • Hire contractors.
  • Provide support.

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WVSAMB Activities
  • Hired project management team.
  • Hiring mapping and addressing contractors.
  • Adopted emergency rules.
  • Adopted addressing standards.
  • Designing overall addressing process.
  • Seeking local government cooperation.

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WVSAMB Rules
  • Emergency Rules adopted December 2002.
  • Outline roles and responsibilities.
  • Include 9-1-1 addressing standards.
  • Valid until April 2004.
  • Refined rules submitted by July 2003.
  • Input welcomed by Board.

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Addressing Standards
  • Based on 1999 WV, USPS, NENA standards.
  • Road naming
  • Property numbering
  • Number posting
  • Road name suffixes
  • Road signs
  • In WV 9-1-1 Addressing Handbook

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Road Naming
  • For new roads or those to be renamed.
  • Avoid duplicate names.
  • Avoid similar sounding names.
  • Input from residents.
  • Existing names OK if no conflicts.

29
Property Numbering
  • Parity odd L, even R.
  • Numbering interval 10.56 (1000 s/mile).
  • Options for starting point.
  • Guidelines for apartments, businesses,etc.
  • Many other guidelines.

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Project Management Team
  • Advise and support the WVSAMB.
  • Design the system.
  • Assist w/ standards, specs, and process.
  • Monitor and QA/QC contractors.

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Mapping Contractor
  • Accurate statewide mapping layers
  • Orthophoto base maps (1 400, 2 res, 4 acc)
  • Elevation grid
  • Road centerlines
  • Building footprints
  • Address points
  • Based on national and state standards.
  • Attributes that meet appropriate standards.

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Addressing Contractor
  • Attribute road centerlines.
  • Assign address ranges.
  • Create new addresses for building points.
  • Work with local governments.
  • Will need close and timely cooperation.

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Addressing Contractor
  • Key function is new-to-old address linking
  • TN/Site Matching for ALI
  • USPS address conversion
  • Assist with
  • MSAG development
  • ESZ creation
  • Intersection address range identification

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Local Government
  • Commit to process. (Letter by 07/01/03)
  • Assign an addressing manager.
  • Adopt addressing standards.
  • Enact addressing ordinance.
  • Educate and involve residents.
  • Complete road naming property numbering.

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Local Government
  • Update mailing addresses.
  • USPS address conversion.
  • TN/Site Matching for ALI.
  • MSAG and ESZ development.
  • Issue new addresses as needed.
  • Address and mapping maintenance.

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Addressing Manager
  • Key contact person.
  • Involved in process.
  • Work with contractor.
  • Approval authority?
  • Who? Already have?

37
Citizen Education
  • Key element to process.
  • Why addresses needed.
  • Standards what and why.
  • Input on road names.
  • Importance of road signs and property number
    posting.

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Tax Database
  • Important element in linking old to new.
  • Part of digital process.
  • Current mailing addresses?
  • Request edit sheets from USPS.

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Postal Address Conversion
  • Integral part of process.
  • Contact AMS office.
  • Address conversion package requirements
  • Conversion list
  • Range map
  • Road list (MSAG)

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U.S. Postal Service
  • Provide current postal address edit sheets.
  • Will require signing confidentiality letter.
  • Guidance on addressing standards.
  • Assist with linking new to old addresses.
  • Adopt new addresses in timely fashion.

42
ALI MSAG
  • Automatic Location Identification (ALI)
  • Physical address for telephone
  • ALI is E9-1-1 address at PSAP
  • Master Street Address Guide (MSAG)
  • Official road names
  • Gross address ranges

43
Telephone Companies
  • Provide telephone subscriber lists for TN/Site
    Matching to create ALI.
  • Maintain MSAG and ESZ databases.
  • Updates from counties or municipalities.

44
Emergency Service Zones
  • Unique combination of emergency responders.
  • Clearly defined boundaries.
  • Identified by roads and address ranges.
  • Key to PSAP routing and efficient response.

45
Emergency Services and Other Organizations
  • Provide input into process.
  • Key role in ESZ identification.
  • Power company and utilities should adopt new
    addresses.

46
Maintenance Infrastructure
  • Centralized addressing authority.
  • Centralized spatial data maintenance.
  • Maintenance process and procedures.

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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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How to Get Started
  • Those without street addresses
  • Those with street addresses

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No Street Addresses
  • Assign an addressing manager form committee.
  • Contact adjacent counties municipalities.
  • Adopt addressing standards enact ordinance.
  • Educate and involve residents.
  • Start road name review.
  • Update tax database with latest postal addresses.

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With Street Addresses
  • Assign an addressing manager.
  • Establish/verify addressing standards.
  • Enact addressing ordinance.
  • Eliminate road name conflicts.
  • Verify road names.
  • Eliminate postal address inconsistencies.
  • Identify intersection address ranges.

51
WV Addressing Handbook
  • Addressing process
  • Addressing standards
  • Roles responsibilities
  • Sample ordinances
  • Telephone database updating
  • Maintenance procedures

52
Handbook Availability
  • First edition available Feb 2003.
  • Key to successful project.
  • Contact WVSAMB for copy.

53
Advantages to Cooperation
  • Consistent standardized addresses.
  • Part of a seamless statewide system.
  • Continuity across borders.
  • Better information improves response time.
  • Decrease in misdirected or abandoned 911 calls.

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Advantages to Cooperation
  • Potential hazards are pre-identified.
  • Potential litigation reduced.
  • County saves money.
  • Taxpayer dollars are saved.
  • Lives are saved !!!

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Other potential benefits
  • Rural health care delivery services.
  • Land use planning and parcel mapping.
  • Emergency preparedness and planning.
  • School bus routing.
  • Water and sewer infrastructure planning.

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Other potential benefits
  • Flood plain mapping.
  • Utilities (i.e., Call Before You Dig).
  • Crime pattern analysis.
  • Voting precinct mapping.
  • Economic development.

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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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Timeline
  • Project management team hired 09/02.
  • Rules and standards adopted 12/02.
  • Handbook available 02/03.
  • Mapping starts 03/03.
  • Permanent rules submitted 07/03.
  • Addressing contractor hired summer 2003.
  • First map products end of 2003.

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Keys to Success
  • Local involvement from beginning.
  • Consistent, clear addressing standards.
  • Well-defined addressing process.
  • Thorough training and clear expectations.
  • Support, support, and more support.
  • USPS and Verizon and telco cooperation.
  • Digital process as much as possible.

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Other Observations
  • This is a collaborative partnership.
  • Huge, complex, and long effort.
  • Need for clear vision and constant education.
  • Staff funding essential.
  • Support and training crucial.
  • 90 people, 10 technology.
  • Perseverance is a must.

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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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Handbook, Standards, Rules
  • West Virginia Statewide
  • Addressing and Mapping Board
  • Greenbrooke Building
  • 1124 Smith Street, Room LM-10
  • Charleston, WV 25301
  • 304-558-4218
  • Craig Neidig, Chair

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  • www.addressingwv.org

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Contact Information USPS
  • Jeff Bice, Manager
  • Address Management Systems
  • U.S. Postal Service
  • P.O. Box 59321
  • Charleston, WV 25350-9321
  • 304-561-1121
  • jbice_at_email.usps.gov

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Contact Information USPSNorthern Panhandle
Counties Only
  • James (Jim) Gloeckl, Manager
  • Address Management Systems
  • U.S. Postal Service
  • 1001 California Avenue Room 2063
  • Pittsburgh, PA 15290-9321
  • 412-359-7862
  • jgloeckl_at_email.usps.gov

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Presentation Topics
  • Introductions
  • WV addressing project overview
  • E9-1-1 addressing process
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • How to get started
  • Timeline and observations
  • Contact information
  • Summary and questions

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Summary
  • Statewide E9-1-1 addressing process is underway.
  • Addressing standards are available.
  • Addressing support is being assembled.
  • Local government needs to get started.
  • Please join us your citizens will benefit!

E9-1-1 addressing is a responsible act of local
government.
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