Glossary and Terms¶

ABS¶

Australian Bureau of Statistics.

ACT¶

Australian Capital Territory.

Address¶

A structured label for any place that could deliver or receive a good or service.

Address Contributor¶

Supplier of address information to G‑NAF.

Address Level Geocode¶

An address in G‑NAF that has a parcel level geocode (i.e. a geocode reliability code of 2). Also referred to as a “parcel level” address.

AEC¶

Australian Electoral Commission.

AGIL¶

Australian Government Indigenous Location.

Alias Address (or Alternate Address)¶

Another label for a Principal Address which may differ because of a variation in some or all address components (i.e. numbers, levels, street name, locality name). An Alias Address will share the same location as the Principal Address. Association with Principal Address may be provided by an Address Contributor or determined programmatically.

AMAS¶

Address Matching Approval System – A certification program developed by Australia Post to improve the accuracy of postal addresses. The software prepares addresses for barcode creation, ensures quality addressing, and enables mailers to qualify for postal discounts for Pre‑Sort letter lodgements.

ANSI¶

American National Standards Institute.

ANZLIC¶

Australian New Zealand Land Information Council.

AOI¶

Area of Interest.

AP¶

Australia Post.

AS/ANZ 4819¶

Australia and New Zealand Standard for Rural and Urban Addressing.

AS/NZS 4590¶

Australian Standard for Interchange of Client Information.

ASDD¶

Australian Spatial Data Directory superseded by FIND.

ASDI¶

Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure.

ASGS¶

Australian Statistical Geography Standard.

AUT¶

Authority Table.

AV¶

Address Verification.

AVS¶

Address Verification Service.

AWS¶

Amazon Web Services.

Band Means¶

The average of the spectral data in relation to a pixel.

Base64¶

An encoding method that converts binary data into ASCII text and vice versa and is one of the methods used by MIME.

Batch Workflow Service¶

A web service that can be used to process a comma separated file stored on an SFTP or FTP server using PSMA Cloud workflows.

Buffer Zone¶

The inclusive area difference between Land Use 2 metre coverage and Urban and Remote coverage.

Building¶

A structure generally permanent in nature which has been constructed to meet a specific objective (e.g. housing, storage, and workplace) and less permanent structures such as caravans and other portable housing may also be represented. All buildings are represented spatially both as polygons and points.

Building Name¶

A building or property name that is associated with an address.

Building Point¶

The automated calculation of the Building Polygon centroid.

Building Polygon¶

A digital representation of the roof outline of a building classified from remotely sensed information that identifies every structure greater than 9m2 and falls with an area defined by PSMA for the capture of buildings.

CEB¶

Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries.

CGNA¶

Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia. Is now known as the Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN).

Class¶

Description of a set of objects that share the same attributes, operations, methods, relationships, and semantics [UML]. Note: A class does not always have an associated geometry (e.g. the metadata class).

Confidence Level¶

G‑NAF is currently built from three national address datasets. The confidence level of an address indicates the level of usage of each address by the contributor address datasets.

Contour¶

A line connecting points of equal elevation/height, used to display a 3D surface on a 2D map or image.

Contributor Data¶

Address datasets held and maintained by organisations external to PSMA that is being made available for the purpose of building and maintaining G‑NAF.

CORS¶

Continuous Operating Reference Station.

CSV¶

Comma Separated Value – A file format used to store tabular data.

Datum¶

A datum is a mathematical surface on which a mapping and coordinate system is based. The definition includes: the spheroid used, an origin, and fixed point(s).

DEM¶

Digital Elevation Model.

Digital Surface Model¶

The DSM is a Earth’ surface representation which includes vegetation and human constructed features.

Digital Terrain Model¶

A DTM is model of the earth’s ground surface. The DTM representation of ground includes works such as levees, banks and roads, but excludes vegetation such as trees and shrubs and human constructed features such as sheds, houses and bridges.

DMP¶

Oracle binary format dump file.

DPID¶

Delivery Point Identifier – An Australia Post identifier of an address commonly used in barcoding mail.

DSM¶

Digital Surface Model.

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