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URISA Announces LEAP Conference

Des Plaines, IL (August 17, 2021) URISA has a long history of delivering resources and educational content focused on addressing and emergency response.  Leading national addressing experts and members of  URISA's GIS & NG9-1-1 Task Force regularly provide resources to meet the professional education needs of the community from  Geospatial Fact Sheets, workshops, and  webinars to the development of the  United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard.

Now, we're pleased to announce a new URISA Conference to collaborate on Location, Enterprise Addressing, and Public Safety (LEAP) taking place virtually, February 1-2, 2022. Participation is invited.

The program will cover:

GIS-supported Addressing for Governance, Administration, and Management

Address location data is central to mission-critical operations across all levels of government and a broad range of the private sector. Organizations are realizing synergies and economies by integrating authoritative, quality-controlled, GIS-based address repositories with their business processes and systems. Hear about successes and lessons learned in integrating GIS-supported addressing into these or other operations:

Addressing for Public Safety: A Driving Force for Geospatial Addressing

Accurate location data is at the core of current and future Public Safety systems. Locating 9-1-1 incidents quickly and accurately is vital to reducing response times in pursuit of saving lives and protecting property. In addition, Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) utilizes GIS data for geospatial call routing of live 9-1-1 calls to the correct Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). The core databases of all Public Safety systems are locally-maintained civic address GIS data layers. This track will provide the audience with the steps that can be taken now to optimize your addressing systems and GIS data to meet the needs of Public Safety.

Address Management: Business Processes and Collaboration
Addresses, street names, and even place names change constantly. Address management within an organization requires collaborative business processes and data maintenance workflows across the various operations that create, alter, or use address data. These processes and workflows provide the updates that maintain integrity, timeliness, and authority of the address repository.  This track will explore workflows and collaborative tools for good address data management, including case studies and best practice solutions.

Enterprise Address Data Integration: From Address Reference System to Address Repository
Address reference systems organize the addresses. Address repositories organize the data. A well-conceived address reference system documents the rules implicit in all the addresses already on the ground. A well-designed address repository organizes the data so that one spatial database can, by views and applications, serve all of the enterprise operations that create, alter, or use address data. Repository management requires maintenance workflows and quality audits to maintain the integrity of the system, and timely propagation of changes to user applications to ensure consistent data across the enterprise. This track will cover case studies, best practices, and lessons learned for defining your address reference system, building your address repository, and managing it.

The planning committee is inviting abstract submissions and suggestions for content from the community. Click  here for submission forms. 

Program details and sponsorship opportunities forthcoming.

 

 

Wendy Nelson

Executive Director – URISA

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Mark your calendar:

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