Re: Central Address Database

[Thomas Lee <ytlee@cecid.hku.hk>]

Dear experts in TC,

I forgot to mention our government's CIO office has published two papers 
on HK address, for some background on the idea of the common address 
database:

<http://www.xml.gov.hk/download/address_cstf_200404.pdf>
<http://www.xml.gov.hk/download/address_cstf_200401.pdf>

Regards,
Thomas

Thomas Lee wrote:

> Dear eGov TC,
>
> I'd like to seek your advice on building a central address database to 
> facilitate e-government applications. The central address database 
> essentially intends to record every valid address in the city so that 
> computer validation on address input from e-government applications is 
> possible. Also the address database can be used to perform 
> geographical data analysis, e.g. census data.
> ...