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Rural Address Property Identification

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RAPID is an acronym for Rural Address Property IDentification, a scheme instituted in New Zealand to assist emergency services in identifying and locating rural properties.

However, since the adoption of Australian/New Zealand Standard 4819:2003 Geographic Information – Rural and urban addressing in 2003, this scheme is now known as Rural Addressing.

The acronym RAPID has since been applied to a project of the New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, entitled Response And Preparedness In Disasters