United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard
The standard defines U.S. address elements, classification, quality, exchange, and address reference-system concepts.
What the authority record establishes
The standard defines U.S. address elements, classification, quality, exchange, and address reference-system concepts.
Technical data standard; legal or operational effect depends on adoption and use
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
A civic workflow needs to preserve address authority, parcel and structure relationships, aliases, coordinates, lifecycle, quality, and corrections rather than assume one text field is a stable property identity.
Affected operating stages
- Assignment
- Normalization
- Quality Testing
- Exchange
- Correction
- Retirement
Capabilities to examine
Parcel Property And Address Master
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for parcel property and address master.
GIS Mapping And Spatial Integration
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for GIS mapping and spatial integration.
APIs Integrations And Data Export
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for APIs integrations and data export.
Application Permit And License Record
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for application permit and license record.
Inspection Scheduling And Dispatch
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for inspection scheduling and dispatch.
Documents Records Retention And Public Disclosure
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for documents records retention and public disclosure.
Affected buyer audiences
- address authorities
- GIS teams
- permitting administrators
- emergency services
- data integrators
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
Using the standard does not establish that an address exists, is authoritative, identifies a legal parcel, matches a structure, determines jurisdiction, or is fit for a permit decision.