G-NAF stands for Geocoded National Address File. It is used as an Australian address reference source for parsing, normalising, and comparing supplied addresses.
Attribution. G-NAF (c) Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
How Hoist uses it
Hoist uses G-NAF-backed evidence to compare a supplied Australian address with a recognised address reference and to explain whether address components appear consistent. The result can support a risk flag or human review item inside an Evidence Pack.
Limits
G-NAF is address data. It is not a person-search source, a company-occupancy register, a property ownership source, a bank-account ownership source, or a postal-delivery guarantee. Mailing use requires secondary verification before an address is used to send mail.
Related terms
- Address confidence: the signal Hoist returns after comparing supplied address text with address evidence.
- Address intelligence docs: source attribution, currency, and limitation language.
- Evidence Pack: where address evidence appears beside other source checks.