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<br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEE'ING
<br />DECEMBER 15, 1987
<br />VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OF ITEM G (2) HOUSE NUMBERING
<br />PRESENTATION: ROSCOE REEVES
<br />REEVES: The foundation of the house numbering project is not to inconvenience citizens
<br />but to provide a logical and sequential assignment of a number, constituting an address,
<br />everywhere in the County. The difficulty of that is because one envisions those wide
<br />open spaces and the assignment of some number to a house where the next house that is
<br />visible is a mile down the road. But the plan itself makes a lot of sense and to follow
<br />a sequential, logical number system requires at least attention to the basic elements of
<br />being logical and sequential. For one thing, in the creation of the number system
<br />itself the Planning Department spent time on this Route 2 almost manually creating
<br />addresses by using sequential numbers over given spaces or distances. That is quite
<br />time consuming and labor intensive and hard enough, but if yhou can imagine what it
<br />would have been if the process had been to go out and discover what existing addresses
<br />there are, clarifying them and then trying to design a numbering system for the open
<br />spaces between those already assigned numbers. The possibilty of a GIS really doublly
<br />underlines what you can do once you apply a logically sequential system. A computer
<br />mapping. system which is a GIS with analytical qualities, can o most of the labor for
<br />you, and do it very rapidly. That's because a GIS system or a computer mapping system
<br />knows a road like it knows any polygon. It has area within it and it has borders, that
<br />is lines, the lines are the right -of -way, or as its culled and the system arcs It has
<br />locations, or points. Because the GIS system knows every location and value of that
<br />surface.and every.location and value of those points, it can do the work for you in a
<br />- situati ori""° in """ which`- you___want -- to -_identify- entities,- but - it" has' to ' be logical and-
<br />se uen iii! For instance, the computer system can take a roa a distance
<br />boa U, it knows if you tell it where to locate those sequential numbers and then
<br />once they are , a value to them that can be used in all the important
<br />rpolicatirns of wnat afl addrLsss means, not to mention helping mai men. ery important
<br />in such app icafions"as ncy ispa c systems. That is the intention, for that
<br />number 'to have a power, not just an identify for mailing purposes. The power is'tha_t if
<br />.--we.-consistently, everywhere,-apply the same logic in addressing a road or location; then
<br />everywhere' an emergency -vehicle, a delivery, or route vehicle goes there is a
<br />-consistent -- every- time -- experience, of arriving - where"you`'think 'you are going to be-.
<br />''� """""`'"" i'mTeraf'ive when._ it involves an em __g`e____.-,..__..___._ ... . __.-..._. _ .
<br />- _ p ergency, in many cases. The advanced"
<br />That
<br />ecomes- ife
<br />application that �'we will be- proposing, as you have seen -in the capital improvement
<br />project, is a 911 emergency system. That is a system basically designed by the
<br />-•` -`" °-;telephone` company -- that - attaches � the -- telephone number' to- the address ` so that when the
<br />easergericy =� call - - comes the address' from .. which, that call is coming' is immediately
<br />den,tifie on the.,.- computer- console. The IS system-is going to add. the;.third crucia OP
<br />value,(one eing-telephone number - and tw eing address) r by precisely loc_atinLl"
<br />addrress in Ehe any coup y, on a road. It'wi isp ay distance within 1000 feet of
<br />— 1i _w ere ; a -ca is_:comin - roam ecause-_the. address =Tis- not- =just a telephone. number but
<br />- actually-`contains` -the coordinate values that -- locate.:it.on the earth. What we will be
<br />.,.. by�pallocatin ,�' on�ascaled= distan "addresses. The GIS_sy_stem cq en�.�that automatically.
<br />_p g,:js to then digitize those
<br />- ��.,T .- - - - ._.rc °n �y of our roadsy the.'' se ial- numbers system.
<br />aw ^_T atFmean_s,; then; #:rthat_ the inclusion -__or_ creation..,of ;a_new: road;:(i.e. an .old road that
<br />hasn't been numbered or a new. road -that is..created in a_.sudivision) will have the same
<br />experience'. That means even if a citizen, mailman, ambulance driver arrives on that new
<br />road, he knows how it works locationally. If we pattern a system, and there is no doubt
<br />that a GIS system can establish an identity to any number, unless that number is located
<br />.-.and,-useable. its almost hardly worth the effort of going through the intensive cost and
<br />`labor.: to. - tie : it down. It_ can .,,:be done efficiently,-.--and- economically if it is done
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