Because there are so many dimensions to the tests and results, each potential user group will need to focus on aspects appropriate to its needs. Clearly EMS should take no comfort in the improvements in results due to lenient treatment of blanks in Phase II tests. It must be emphasized that the bulk of the problem with low success rates is not the fault of the XSP specification, but is a reflection of database quality, particularly the high incidence of blanks, absence of alias fields in many databases, and non-standard name parsing and abbreviations. The ITS industry expects far better success rates from a messaging standard than what has been achieved in these tests. The following are constructive recommendations for national-level activities that would lead to better results.
Piecemeal efforts are already underway.
Several municipalities have integrated GIS programs in operation, with varying degrees of coordination between federal, state, county and private agencies. Even if re-survey is publicly funded, commercial vendors will need to make substantial investments in data reorganization and conflation of nationwide databases. Standardization of other aspects such as classification and inclusion, are desirable, but may not be readily achievable in the short term. The full text of the LRMS Cross Streets Profile report is available under Technical Reports . The project was executed under contract to Viggen Corporation.