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County updates rural addressing database, aims to meet NextGen 911 data standards
Summary
Grant County’s new rural addressing coordinator described six months of work to correct address-point and street-centerline errors, improve GIS data matches with legacy E‑911 records and prepare for a transition to NextGen 911; commissioners asked staff to draft updates to the county’s 1997 rural addressing ordinance.
Peter Hurley, the county’s rural addressing coordinator, told the Grant County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 12 that he has spent the past six months cleaning and restructuring the county’s GIS address-point and street-centerline database to prepare for a transition from the legacy 9‑1‑1 system to NextGen 9‑1‑1. Hurley said the work includes correcting database errors the state flags, reconciling the county GIS with a legacy E‑911 dataset maintained by a private vendor, and creating public-facing online maps that county offices and residents can use.
Hurley said the county’s address-point match rate with legacy E‑911 records rose from well below current levels to above 70 percent, and that street-centerline exact-match rates are at about 55–57 percent. He said the county’s target is roughly a 98 percent match rate for both datasets…
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