Australian Addressing Creation & Maintenance Standard

This (proposed) standard codifies roles and tasks involved in the creation and maintenance of addresses in Australia and New Zealand under the authority of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying & Mapping.

This standard is dependent on the Address Model.

This standard does not depend on, but is aligned with, the draft Geographical Names Creation & Maintenance Standard with which it will be cross-referenced.

This standard is intended to replace AS 4819: Standards for rural and urban addressing

This repository contains the source code for the standard and the standard document is rendered from these files online at:

• https://linked.data.gov.au/def/addr-cm

This Standard will receive a permanent home at a persistent online location when officially endorsed.

Contributions

We encourage all contributions to this Standard!

Please contribute by:

1. Raising concerns/ideas within ICSM’s Addressing Working Group

2. Creating Issue tickets within this repository’s Issue Tracker

   1. at https://github.com/icsm-au/addr-creation-maintenance/issues

3. Creating Pull Requests to absorb changes against the document source files

   1. the source files are in the document/ folder of this repository

   2. Pull Requests should be lodged at https://github.com/icsm-au/addr-creation-maintenance/pulls

If creating Pull Requests is a new/unknown thing for you, please communicate with the contacts below for help.

Rights and License

The information in this repository is available for reuse under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, see the LICENSE file for the deed.

© Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping, 2025

Contacts

For more information about these vocabularies, contact:

Spatial Information
GeoResources Division
Department of Resources
Queensland Government
[email protected]

For further information, please visit:

https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/title/addressing
https://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/

For technical model implementation questions, contact:

Nicholas Car
KurrawongAI
[email protected]
Contractor to Spatial Information Qld.

Document generation

This document is developed using the ASCIIDOC document system used for many OGC and ISO standards. It essentially builds HTML or PDF documents from a series of text files (ending in .adoc), images and so, with certain styling conventions.

This repository automatically builds this document from the source files in the document/ folder using the ASCIIDoctor tool that it integrated into a GitHub Action, meaning the document is rebuild with every error-free update to the source files here.

The auto-built document is online at https://linked.data.gov.au/def/addr-cm.