Address Matching Approval System, an Australia Post certification program for the quality and accuracy of addresses in Australia. For the purpose of the ‘Typeahead’ feature of the API, an example of an AMAS formatted address is: L15100ARTHURSTNORTHSYDNEYNSW2060.
ANZSIC
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification. Full details can be found at ABS website
API
Application Programming Interface
Natural
Used in the context of the Address TypeAhead system. The Natural format closer matches the way people tend to write addresses as opposed to the AMAS format. An example of a Naturally formatted address is Level15,100ArthurStreet,NorthSydney,NSW2060.
MALID
Master Address List Identifier
DPID
Delivery Point Identifier, an Australia Post identifier for a single postal/residential address.
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation, is an open standard format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. (Source: Wikipedia (JSON))
PDPID
Primary Delivery Point Identifier (this is used to identify, for example, a block of units whereas a DPID identifies the unit itself inside the block of units.)
REST
Representational state transfer (REST) is an architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements, within a distributed hypermedia system. REST ignores the details of component implementation and protocol syntax in order to focus on the roles of components, the constraints upon their interaction with other components, and their interpretation of significant data elements. (Source: Wikipedia (REST))
SA1
SA2
SA3
SA4
Statistical Area 1, 2 3 and 4, are all area definitions as defined by the ABS. SA1 is the smallest region and SA4 the largest.