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Friday, 26.04.2024, 09:01
Administrative reform changes over half a million addresses in Estonia
"The changes to addresses brought about by the administrative reform
have been entered into the address data system of the Land Board. We depended
in this work on the declaration of the results of the municipal council
elections, which took until last Friday. In the near future the changes will
move on from the address data system to other databases - the Population
Register, the Commercial Register, the Land Register and the Construction
Register. Citizens don't have to do anything in this," said Mall Kivisalu, head of the department
for address data at the Land Board.
In all about 555,000 addresses had to be changed, of which some 385,000 are
addresses of cadastral units, 160,000 addresses of commercial and utility
buildings, and 155,000 addresses of dwellings. Hence the addresses of about
300,000 homes and workplaces changed.
Whether or not an address has changed can be checked with an address
converter available on the opening web page of the geo-portal of the Land
Board.
Particular attention is required from residents of the five towns within
towns, or Haapsalu, Paide, Tartu, Parnu and Narva-Joesuu, which now stand for
municipalities and settlement units of the same name. This means that in the
new official addresses the word "linn," Estonian for town, appears
twice, the official said.
As an example, the Land Board brought an address in Tartu city: Tartu
maakond, Tartu linn, Tartu linn, W. Struve tanav 1, or Tartu County, Tartu
City, Tartu City, W. Struve Street 1. In everyday communication the name of the
town usually does not have to be duplicated. In official documents this is
necessary, however, because there is now a settlement unit, or town within the
town, within the boundaries of the former city of Tartu as a municipality. The
world "linn" will also appear in the addresses of some villages.
The mapping apps Google Maps and HERE have said that they will update the
Estonian address data in their navigation systems. Hopefully the same will be
done by other foreign service providers, the Land Board said.