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:

Local government: Permitting, planning, zoning, cadaster, assessment, streets/highways, public works, public utilities, 3-1-1, schools, treasurer/finance, capital budgeting, elections, economic development, human services, parks and recreation; human resources, courts/law, crime analysis, health care, emergency response
State government: Emergency management, transportation/highways, environmental assessment, archaeological inventories, redistricting, election management, DMV/drivers’ licenses, tax/revenue redistribution, courts.
Federal government: Census, USPS, FEMA, HUD, IRS, Social Security/Medicare, Education, military facility management, federal land management, federal law enforcement.
Private: Private utilities and infrastructure, market analysis, location analysis, fleet management, delivery logistics.

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.

How Addresses Play a Critical Role in NG9-1-1 Implementation
How Addresses Play a Critical Role in Public Safety Systems
Emergency Response and Coordination using GIS
Creative Implementation Strategies for Address and Public Safety Data
What’s New with the NENA NG9-1-1 Civil Location Data Exchange Standards
Overview of the NENA NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model
9-1-1 in Less Populated Areas
9-1-1 and the Emerging Importance of Z-values

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.

Reengineering Business Processes and Workflows for Address Management and Data Maintenance
Roles and functions of the Address Authority, Data Steward, User, and Aggregator
Using Standards to Structure the Data Environment for Multiple Business Needs
Developing an Address Manual: Policies and Rules for Address Administration
Agency/Jurisdiction Collaboration

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.