PSMA - G-NAF - Address (Point) August 2020

This layer presents the August 2020 release of the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), a trusted index of Australian address information. It contains the state, suburb, street, number and coordinate reference (or "geocode") for street addresses in Australia. G-NAF does not contain any personal information or details relating to an individual or business.

G-NAF uses existing and recognised address sources (referred to as contributors) from the state and territory government land records and Commonwealth government agencies. The Mesh Block data is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)and is part of their Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). A rigorous process is used that involves textual address comparison, matching and geospatial validation to provide both national consistency and national coverage.

For more information, please refer to the Product Description.

Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia.

Addresses were once exclusively related to properties (e.g. where a bill should be sent for a utility service or rates notice). In a digital world,the use and purpose of addressing has changed. Addresses are now used to label land parcels and properties as well as for locating assets such as ATMs, tree plantations, reserves and substations. Official addresses may be considered as those that are recognised and recorded by an authoritative body such as a land agency. In addition to official addresses, there are also "unofficial" or "in-use" addresses that may exist and be widely used and recognised by the community.

AURIN has ingested the State/Territory based pipe separated value files into a national dataset, and has spatialised coordinates in PostGIS. The Street number, Level number and Lot identifier attributes are presented as a concatenation of prefix, number and suffix.