1. Offers a credible means of Government and institutions to communicate with citizens for various purposes;
2. The systems simplify and facilitate business including e-commerce for small scale and large business because their locations will be known;
3. Registration of wealth like motor vehicles, businesses, voters will be more reliable;
4. Facilitate researches and studies like censues, surveys etc;
5. Boosts tourism, many tourists will be able to effeciently plan their vacations in the country;
6. Increase effectivenees in rescue services like fire, ambulances, accidents and floods;
7. Boosts innovation in the use of internet and ICTs for Geographical Postioning System and development of electronic geographic maps.

LOCAL Government Authority has a responsibility to assign and registeer physical addresses to people under their jurisdiction.. Firstly, the road or street is identified and a signage is put. A house number for residency or bulding is allocated in accordance to the location of the house. Frontage door is marked with the assigned number on the top side of the door.

Mr. Lwitiko Ambele

4 Mwakaleli Street

53122 Mwakibete

MBEYA

Postcode is also named PIN Code in India, ZIP Code in USA, Postal code in Canada and NPA in French speaking Switzerland)

1. Postcode is a postal number that usually assigned to geographical area or administrative locality.
2. If a postcode is used in an address, coorectly identifies a locality of an adressee.
3. A postcode is a resources and many stakeholders utilise them to facilitate their economic activities.

It is the responsibility of the Local Government Authority to allocate and assign house numbers. House numbers are assigned in the following formats: -

1. Houses in the left hand side from the beginning of the street are numbered in odd numbers from 1 while on the right hand side are assigned even numbers from 2;
2. Houses in round shaped road or street, numbers will assigned continuously from left to right;
3. Houses in unplanned areas will be numbered in accordance to topology of the area and as defined by Local Government Authority.

1. It is an addressing system that uses house number, road or street name and postcode to identify a person. By using this system an address is assigned to every building.
2. An addressing system involves identification and allocation of street names and house numbers.
3. An immediate objective is to provide address to every house and location in the country.