This repository contains the source files for the ICSM Address Model for Australian & New Zealand.
To view the model, go to its permanent online location:
This model was developed by Spatial Information Queensland in response to the ICSM’s Addressing 2035 Strategy and was voted in as the ICSM Address Model for all jurisdictions and data exchange by the ICSM Addressing Working Group in June, 2024.
The model documentation, online at the above location, is created using ASCIIDOC, the documentation system also used by many ISO and OGC standards.
The source files used are in this repository with the master document being 00-master.adoc.
This repository is directly accessible at:
To contribute to this model, see the notes on contributing which describes both technical aspects of editing and community processes.
The schema of this model in machine-readable form is presented as an RDF / OWL model in the file model.ttl in this repository which is online at https://linked.data.gov.au/def/addr.ttl and at https://linked.data.gov.au/def/addr via Content Negotiation for Turtle data.
Additionally, there is a SHACL validator for this model available online at https://linked.data.gov.au/def/addr/validator.
The content of this repository and the Address Model overall have the following copyright notices:
© The State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing, and Regional and Rural Development), 2020 - 2023
© Commonwealth of Australia on behalf of ICSM, 2025
All content here is available for reuse under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, see the LICENSE file for the deed.
Note that much of the content in this model is reused from other models that have their own copyright and reuse information but all implement permissive open source Apache or BSD or W3C licenses that are similar to Creative Commons licenses.
ICSM welcomes contributions to this open source standard. Anybody may contribute and ICSM will apply serious consideration to all proposals.
The process for adoption and release of normative changes has not yet been established, but will likely be via voting within the ICSM Addressing Working Group.
Optimally, please raise any issues with any part of the model by creating a ticket in this model’s repository’s issue tracker at:
If you are able to propose a specific issue fix or improvement, please consider raising a Pull Request, that is a version-controlled change request, at * https://github.com/icsm-au/address-model/pulls. If you would like help in doing this, please contact this model’s technical supporter listed in the Contacts section below.
If you are not able to lodge an Issue or raise a Pull Request, please describe your suggested issue/changes in an email to the model owner as listed in the Contacts section below. You can also raise issues within the Addressing Working Group.
For more information about this model, contact:
Owner:
Chairperson of the Addressing Working Group
via ICSM at icsm@ga.gov.au
or
Spatial Information
Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing, and Regional and Rural Development
Queensland Government
AddressQueensland@resources.qld.gov.au
Technical supporter:
Nicholas Car
KurrawongAI
nick@kurrawong.ai
Contractor to Spatial Information Qld.