The Department of Communications is seeking comments from industry and developers on a proposed simple geocoded national address file product that would be made available to Australians at no cost to the end user.

It is proposed that the minimum set of attributes that would be released in the new product are:

• Unique identifier (i.e. so addresses can be uniquely identified within this proposed data set).
• Quality indicator (i.e. to give the end user an idea of the accuracy of the data).
• Geocode (i.e. geographic coordinates from land parcel data).
• Geocode level (i.e. parcel, street or locality level) .
• Street number.
• Street name.
• Street type (e.g. road, street, highway, lane).
• Locality (but not including aliases – e.g. suburbs).
• State.
• Postcode.

More information about the background of the proposed product can be found here.

Responses will not be published and will only be used to inform the Commonwealth’s consideration of the proposed product. The information you provide will be assumed to be Commercial-in-Confidence, and will be handled accordingly.

Responses to the survey questions have been extended to COB 19 February 2015.

If you have any questions, please contact the Data Policy section at the Department of Communications.