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GIS office releases draft address guidance to improve geocoding and data quality; board to review open‑data access plans
Summary
The board heard a GIS office draft that distinguishes location versus mailing addresses and recommends standardized fields, validation and drop‑down town fields to improve matching. Members flagged privacy tradeoffs such as Safe at Home and statutory protections for certain officials.
The Connecticut Data Analysis Technology Advisory Board received a draft address guidance and an update on the open‑data access plan requirement on March 19.
Ashley Bonitz, GIS coordinator, said agencies often mix mailing and physical location addresses in the same field, which reduces geocoding reliability. The draft guidance recommends distinguishing location…
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