Most address authorities are only concerned with the primary civic address of a property, which is the address used in construction permitting and land title registration. Secondary civic addresses are usually store fronts or offices in buildings or malls and are of most interest to people trying to find the location of a given business. BC Emergency Health Services is sending us missing secondary addresses regularly. We do add them to an address exception file that gets loaded into the geocoder but it would be good to be proactive and find a source of secondary addresses before BC EHS and other government business areas struggle to cope without them.
For example, 620 View is the primary civic address of the Central Building on View St. The Central Building also has multiple storefronts, each with its own secondary civic address including 614, 616, 618, and 622 View St, and 1200 Broad St.
We propose to investigate the use of business licenses as a source of secondary civic addresses. Many cities offer business licenses as open data. Vancouver would probably be a good place to start.
mraross
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4 years ago
Most address authorities are only concerned with the primary civic address of a property, which is the address used in construction permitting and land title registration. Secondary civic addresses are usually store fronts or offices in buildings or malls and are of most interest to people trying to find the location of a given business. BC Emergency Health Services is sending us missing secondary addresses regularly. We do add them to an address exception file that gets loaded into the geocoder but it would be good to be proactive and find a source of secondary addresses before BC EHS and other government business areas struggle to cope without them.
For example, 620 View is the primary civic address of the Central Building on View St. The Central Building also has multiple storefronts, each with its own secondary civic address including 614, 616, 618, and 622 View St, and 1200 Broad St.
We propose to investigate the use of business licenses as a source of secondary civic addresses. Many cities offer business licenses as open data. Vancouver would probably be a good place to start.