Locational addresses Postal addresses Place names Different aspects

Locational addresses Postal addresses Place names Different aspects on a common basis? Standards and responsibilities described. Interfoliated by personal remarks from Per Sundberg

Stakeholders in locational addresses Cultural heritage Post Rescue SCB Tax agency The public municipalit y Civil engineerin g Distributors Transport planning Storage Map producers Road authority NLS Geographic search services

Different views Locational The bird´s eye view, zooming in Postal The disseminator´s view, spreading out Residents ”I´m the core, my address is part of me, the surrounding world has to adjust. ”

Standards on addresses 1995 1998 2003 Standard for Postal Addresses Standard for Locational Addresses Revised and CEN-conformed standard for Postal Addresses 20042007 Revised and ISO-conformed standard for Locational Addresses - on its way to confirmation 2007 Manual for best practice in development 20082007 A new postal address standard? Initiatives might come …

The Ancient Monuments and Finds Act, 4 § (Sw. lagen 1988: 950 om kulturminnen m. m. , amended in 2000: 265) The Code of Good Practice paragraph has the following wording: Central and local government authorities shall follow the code of good practice when handling place-name questions. This entails that: Established names shall not be changed if there are not strong reasons for doing so; The spelling of place-names shall follow established linguistic rules where there is no generally accepted, traditional spelling; New names shall not be created without taking into account the effect this may have on established names and, Swedish, Saami and Finnish names shall, as far as possible, be used together on maps and on sign posts and other signs in multi-lingual areas; Names that have been approved for use on public maps shall also be used in the approved form for other purposes.

The place names register Ø is the foundation for address names in rural areas. Ø prescribes the spelling of place names. Ø keeps so far no information on which area a name covers. (Exception administrative names. ) Ø does not yet contain the hierarchy of names. Ø

Differences and similarities between locational and postal addresses Locational addresses Postal addresses • Municipality name • Postcode the Post responsible the Government • District name the municipality • Postal town the Post 5 th row • Street-/village-name the municipality • (farm-/settlementname) the municipality • House-/entrancenumber the municipality • (farm-/settlementname) the municipality • House-/entrance- 4 th row number the municipality • Dwelling-number (3 d row – if needed)

A complete locational address Municipality District Villageaddressarea Settlement Adressplaces Nora Järnboås Lindesby Bäcktorp 532 (the ”big” house) 530 (the guest-cabin) The postal address is: Lindesby Bäcktorp 532 713 94 Nora

Farm or settlement name Name of country village

Bad practice, bad addressing Many characters (28) Place name not registered Contains descriptive ”gård” Wrong spelling? Place name not registered

The address register Ø All information produced by the municipalities. Ø Part of the land information register. Ø Connections to registered buildings and real property units are established. Ø Connections to other types of objects can be made if the address information is transferred to other databases or is used in applications. Ø Is likely to stand steady even when the new standard is introduced. But some amendments might be needed. Ø NLS administrator, manager or police?

Conceptual tree according to the new standard

Byadressområde Tabell 4 — byadressområde: LA_Location. Type Värde Attribut eller association name byadressområde parent kommundel: LA_Location. Type child byadressplats: LA_Location. Type gårdsadressområde: LA_Location. Type theme Adresshantering identification av kommunen fastställt namn. Namnet skall vara unikt inom kommundel. definition geografiskt avgränsat, icke överlappande, vanligen sammanhängande område inom en kommundel territory. Of. Use Sverige owner Kommunen adressable nej extent. Method Område som innesluter de underordnade gårdsadressområdena och byadressplatserna. Läge behöver ej anges men om det anges ska det avse en centralt belägen punkt inom den del av adressområdet där de flesta adressplatserna finns. alternative. Id riksunik icke betydelsebärande kod name. Rule namnet skall ha tydlig ortnamnskaraktär. Namnet får innehålla högst 35 tecken ur teckenmängd 3, se 5. 5 Teckenmängder för namn och beteckningar på sidan 25. .

SI_Location. Instance geographic Identifier - unik id för platsen, kan vara text, nummer eller kod alternative Geographic Id - andra namn (el koder) för samma plats geographic Extent - koordinater för ett område eller uppräkning av en samling ingående platser position - koordinater för en för platsen representativ punkt location Type - typ av plats, referens till ”indelningsmetod”

Modell Princip för indelning Type of area or place Namnregister Areas and places

Problems • Long addresses – short spaces • Use of postal addresses for navigation and (to a less extent) use of locational addresses for postal items. • Registered common names used as if they were postal address names