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Overview

NSW Point initiatives have been developed by Spatial Services to improve NSW Government records, enhance reporting capabilities, and simplify the customer user experience by offering a fast, high quality, authoritative validation at the point of entry.

NSW Point can provide validation against address, geocode, cadastral parcel or property on a national level using APIs that can be integrated into NSW Government websites, online forms, and applications.

Address

Predictive Address

This is the most popular NSW Point service. It provides predictive address suggestions for embedding in government online forms. As a customer types their address into a form, this service will offer a list of valid address suggestions for the customer to choose from.

This improves the customer’s experience by reducing keystrokes and helps to ensure that only authoritative addresses are captured in agency systems using a consistent format.

Features include:

• Location (coordinates)
• Authoritative national address, cadastral, and property information
• Administrative boundaries (Local Government Areas, State and Federal Electoral Divisions, ASGS Meshblock, Remoteness, SEIFA information)

The services include:

• GET Suggested Addresses: Provides accurate and timely address suggestions as users enter information into web-enabled forms and applications. It provides a unique ID for each address.
• GET an Address by ID: This API accepts an address ID provided by the GET Suggested Addresses API and returns a variety of address and location information.

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Address Validation

Agencies that do not require a predictive address suggestion service but still wish to validate addresses captured in existing web forms or systems can use these services. They offer the flexibility of accepting addresses in variety of formats (e.g. parsed, unparsed or partially parsed) and can provide validation against GNAF Live, GNAF and Australia Post's Postal Address File (PAF).

Features include:

• A variety of address matches and match quality metadata
• Address, street, and locality matching
• Location (coordinates)
• Authoritative national address, cadastral, and property information
• Postal address identifiers
• Ability to parse the input address
• Administrative boundaries (Local Government Areas, State and Federal Electoral Divisions, ASGS Meshblock, Remoteness, SEIFA information)
• Customisable Coordinate Reference Systems (GDA94, GDA2020, WGS84, AGD66)

The services include:

• Geocode Address API: This API is recommended for customers looking to validate physical addresses and identify address locations.
• Mailpoint API: Customers looking to validate addresses against Australia Post database for the purpose of mail delivery can take advantage of this service.

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Bulk Address Validation

Spatial Services provide Bulk Address Validation (BAV) services to NSW Government Agencies. This is a bespoke service that includes address data assessment, cleansing and validation against recognised and authoritative national address datasets.

NSW Point BAV allows for the validation of existing address datasets against authoritative National, State, and Postal Address datasets, and provides a formatted output that is consistent with NSW Point address web service, including:

• A geocode (set of geographic coordinates) that represents the spatial location of the validated address
• The matched address in a parsed AS4590 and NAMF standardised format
• Metadata describing the quality and type of address match
• A range of optional administrative information for each address such as Local, Government Area, ABS mesh block code, state Electoral District

BAV process usually involves:

1. Initial Consultation - Our team engage with the client to assess their needs and answer any questions there may be regarding the bulk address process.
2. Data Assessment - The client provides Spatial Services with a copy or sample of their data and we perform an initial assessment, providing feedback including:
   • A summary of the quality of the address dataset
   • The amount of data cleansing that may be required prior to validation
   • An overview of expected results and outcomes for the validation
   • A sample of the output results for the client’s evaluation and approval
   • Expected timeframes for cleansing, processing and return of the validated data
3. Data Validation - Once we have agreed on the terms of the validation, we will proceed with the matching process.
4. Data Resupply - After processing, Spatial Services will supply all original and updated data back to the client in the agreed format for integration into their systems.

BAV is available upon request as a standalone service or as a component of NSW Point implementation. Access to the service is provided following consultation with Spatial Services. Agencies interested in NSW Point BAV should complete the NSW Point BAV Request which will assist Spatial Services in assessing your requirements.

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Cadastral Parcel

Parcel Validation

NSW Government customers working with property and cadastral data can use this service to validate a parcel reference. Customers can input a parcel ID and return details about that parcel and other related FSDI and administrative boundary information. NSW parcel IDs are comprised of the following attributes: lot, section, and plan.

Features include:

• Authoritative national address, coordinate, cadastral, and property information
• Administrative boundaries (Local Government Areas, State and Federal Electoral Divisions, ASGS Meshblock, Remoteness, SEIFA information)
• Customisable Coordinate Reference Systems (GDA94, GDA2020, WGS84, AGD66)

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