Why are there no ESITE points (or road address ranges) for some towns prior to 2004?
A.11: The answer to this question is detailed and complex due to the robust nature of the data, the history of assigning addresses in Vermont and the evolution of technology used to represent it. The availability of ESITE and RDS address range information varies depending on a town’s “status”. Click here for an Adobe Acrobat formatted map of E 9-1-1 “status” by town for the state of Vermont (hyperlink image under construction). A town’s “status” was determined between 1997-1998 when the Enhanced 9-1-1 board initiated a GIS assistance project to assist towns in meeting the objectives of the Enhanced 9-1-1 program. A town’s decision at this time to participate or not, decided which “status” category they entered. As a result, there were four different “status” categories for town’s prior to 2004 when all town’s data was completed: “Address Range Only”, “Grand Fathered”, “Not Grand Fathered” and “Partially Grand Fathered”. Towns without pre-existing addressing information or others that d
