Rural Addressing

Australia Post

Australia Post(AP) is a key stakeholder of the Rural Addressing Project

The Role of Australia Post_140203 [PDF File - 32.9 KB]

AP_Schedule [PDF File - 138.2 KB]

Rural Road Numbering Guidelines

This document has been prepared as a reference for municipalities in Victoria introducing a rural addressing system as participants in the Rural Addressing Project. A preferred and highly recommended procedure has been outlined. In particular this procedure advocates the use of digital tools that will be provided to Councils as part of the Land Victoria funding offer. These tools include handheld personal digital assistants` (PDA's) and basic Geographic Positioning System receivers (GPS's) and relevant mapping software.

RRN_Guidelines14

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Maintenance

In accordance with the Rural Addressing Project Cooperative Services Program “Council will have a process in place to identify new rural occupied properties…” and “…ensure every new rural property is appropriately addressed, to maintain the completeness and accuracy of addressing in the municipality”

Council must ensure the following outcomes for each new or changed rural address:

Compliance with the draft Australian/New Zealand Standard, Geographic Information – Property Street Addressing (now AS/NZS 4819:2003 or AS/NZ4724-2000)
The location of primary access point to the property is determined and referenced with respect to Vicmap Property. i.e. associated spatial component - on which the address is based.
Property Owner or resident is advised of the new official property address.
The address assigned is adopted into Council's property system as the definitive property address.
The rural road number assigned to each rural property is clearly displayed by property owner or resident at the primary access point to the property. N.B. it is preferable for Council to affix the rural road number.

It is vital that Council formulate a process ( a flow chart is be provided to Land Victoria – as per the Cooperative Services Program(CSP)) and designate a Council officer the responsibility for rural address maintenance prior to the completing the implementation phase of the project.

RA_Maintenance_071103

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Maintenance M1

Vicmap Property - Old M1 Process

RRN data attributes documented

Attached are documents to assist in the understanding of the data loaded in the Rural Road Numbering Project of 2001-2003

Rural Addressing Project – RA Feature Quality Attributes
RAP_Data_Quality_201102

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Quality Assurance/Data Preparation Business Rules
RRN_Data_Business _Rules_091003

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Rural Addressing – Communications DVD

Early in the Rural Addressing Project in 2001 a video was created by our Communications Team explaining basics of how the distance based rural road numbering system worked, with stakeholder recommendations and support. Unfortunately, distribution was very limited as Australia Post(AP) could not immediately adopt rural addresses for postal purposes, as they had advised in the video.

However, the landscape has changed with AP in the final stages of its transition to rural addressing from the old RMB/RSD delivery system – this means the video is more relevant now than at any time during the project.

It is known that although property owners were provided with a rural property address, they may not have used it – possibly preferring to use their RMB as a property identifier. Now that AP is using rural addressing for postal purposes, there seems to be a need for better community understanding of how distance based addressing works – so we upgraded the old “Rural properties are getting a road number" video.

The video is now available in DVD format for distribution to all rural addressing stakeholders. Limited copies will be provided to Local Government, and permission granted for further duplication where necessary.

If you have any questions regarding the DVD or rural addressing please contact the former Rural Addressing Project manager Colin Salmon. 8636 2329 or at colin.salmon@dse.vic.gov.au

Rural Addressing_DVD

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State Highway Segmentation & Addressing Directions Map

The advent of rural addressing occurred in the 1986 in the Shire of Corio (refer “The Advent of Rural Addressing”). Following the Melbourne metropolitan Councils who quickly recognised the value of distance based rural addressing, a number of federally funded rural addressing schemes were taken up by rural Councils in the early to mid 90's.

It was realised that in addition to the Australian New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) -“Guidelines for the Systematic Addressing of Rural Properties” a co-ordinated approach to the numbering of state highways was required. There was a tendency for each Council to commence and radiate numbering for highways from the major town in that municipality. This had the potential to create number duplications, numbering sequence overlaps, illogical numbering sequences, friction between Councils and generally erode the integrity of rural addressing.

Land Victoria took on the issue and created the “State Highway Segmentation & Addressing Directions” map to be used as basic reference tool for local governments. It is important to note that the addressing standard of the day, the ANZLIC -“Guidelines for the Systematic Addressing of Rural Properties” recommended that a rural road number have no more than 4 digits. Thus a breakdown of highway numbering into segments of 99.99 kilometres or less (i.e. RRN = 9999) was performed, utilising key towns and intersections as datum points to commence or restart numbering. The start (datum) point and end points for the highway segments are represented graphically and in an accompanying descriptive table on the map.

There has been numerous changes over the last couple of years to reflect both changed conditions and circumstances, together with the accommodation of numbering that was performed over the past 6/7 years that did not comply with the map. The map has served it's purpose well, being a the basis for negotiation and agreement between adjoining municipalities.

SegmentationMap_020904 [PDF File - 571.5 KB]

Explanation of Segmentation Map [PDF File - 12.5 KB]

Spatial Information Infrastructure
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Melbourne VIC 3000
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