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This approach accomplishes our immediate goals. Should we do this? I still find myself leaning towards leaving the message format as is and changing the consumer over to use EAS IDs for the updates. However, if you feel strongly that we need aliases in the message I can add them. I do not think it will be expensive to do so - may be an hour - possibly less.
Now, the bigger picture...
DPW has already started work to add pre and post direction to the street names. This would be the "SOUTH" in "MISSION BAY BLVD SOUTH". I will be meeting Eddy at DPW Fri Sept 16 to discuss this as well as other issues. Of utmost importance is that our stuff EAS does not break with the DPW changes he makes. What . If we are forced to make changes, what I describe below is should provide us a good starting point if we are forced to make changes caused by DPW changes.
As always I will push for following the with FGDC standards wherever it is reasonable.
For far too much information on the FGDC see:
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/street-address
I have found this documment to contain about the right amount of information:
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/street-address/AddressStandardFINAL.zip
What does this look like?
Here is a fragment for CompleteStreetName that follows the FGDC postal address standard final draft.
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<CompleteStreetName>
<StreetNamePreDirectional></StreetNamePreDirectional>
<StreetName>MISSION BAY</StreetName>
<StreetNamePostType>BLVD</StreetNamePostType>
<StreetNamePostDirectional>NORTH</StreetNamePostDirectional>
</CompleteStreetName>
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If we add aliases to Expanding on this in the context of the change notification it may look , we might end up with something like this ...
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<base_address>
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<StreetSegment>
<StreetSegmentId>12345</StreetSegmentId>
<StreetNames>
<Primary>
<CompleteStreetName>
<StreetNamePreDirectional></StreetNamePreDirectional>
<StreetName>MISSION BAY NORTH</StreetName>
<StreetNamePostType>BLVD</StreetNamePostType>
<StreetNamePostDirectional></StreetNamePostDirectional>
</CompleteStreetName>
<StreetNamePostTypes>
<abbreviated>BLVD</abbreviated>
<unabbreviated>BOULEVARD</unabbreviated>
</StreetNamePostTypes>
</Primary>
<Alias>
<CompleteStreetName>
<StreetNamePreDirectional></StreetNamePreDirectional>
<StreetName>MISSION BAY BLVD NORTH</StreetName>
<StreetNamePostType></StreetNamePostType>
<StreetNamePostDirectional></StreetNamePostDirectional>
</CompleteStreetName>
<StreetNamePostTypes>
<abbreviated></abbreviated>
<unabbreviated></unabbreviated>
</StreetNamePostTypes>
</Alias>
<!-- additional aliases here -->
</StreetNames>
</StreetSegment>
...
</base_address>
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