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Create Address Locator Tool

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Create Address Locator Tool

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Create Address Locator Tool, Geocoding Tools Toolbox

 

 

Create Address Locator

Creates an address locator. The address locator can be used to find a location of an address, geocode a table of addresses, or get the address of a point location.

Locators should be stored in a file folder so you take advantage of new features that are not supported for locators stored in geodatabases, such as performance improvements, multithreading capabilities, and suggestions support. ArcGIS 10.4 is the last release to support storing locators in geodatabases.

1. Address Locator Style

The address locator style on which to base the new address locator.

US Address-Dual Ranges—Use when the reference data is a line feature class that contains house number ranges on both sides of a street segment, and you want to search for an address on a specific side of the street or a street intersection.

1. US Address-One Range—Use when the reference data is a line feature class with one house number range for each road segment, and you want to search for an address (where side is not needed) or a street intersection.
2. US Address-Single House—Use when the reference data is a point or polygon feature class where each feature represents a single address, and you want to search for an exact address for a parcel, building, or address point.
3. US Address-Single House Subaddress—Use when the reference data is a point or polygon feature class where each feature represents a single address with optional subaddress elements, and you want to search for apartment units, townhouses, duplexes, or stores in a shopping plaza.
4. US Address-Street Name—Use when the reference data is a line feature class, and you want to search for addresses using only the street name. Address range information is not required.
5. US Address-City State—Use when the reference data is a point or polygon feature class, and you want to search for a specific city in a state.
6. US Address-ZIP 5 Digit—Use when the reference data is a point or polygon feature class where each feature represents a ZIP Code centroid or geographic area, and you want to search for a specific ZIP Code location.
7. General-Gazetteer—Use when the reference data is a point or polygon feature class where each feature represents any unique feature, and you want to search for a place-name, landmark, water meter, or any unique value.

2. Reference Data

The reference data feature classes and tables to be used by the address locator, along with their roles.

1. Primary table—Defines the primary reference dataset feature class for a locator, such as a street centerline feature class. This is a required table.
2. Alternate City Name table—Defines an alternate city name table that contains alternate names for the city or place name. The table is required to have a JoinID that can be used to join to the primary table. This table is optional.
3. Alternate Name table—Defines an alternate street name table that contains alternate names for the street or point features. The table is required to have a JoinID that can be used to join to the primary table. This table is optional.
4. Alias table—Defines a place name alias table that contains place names and actual addresses for the names. User can find the location using either the place name such as Field Museum or the address 1400 S Lakeshore Drive Chicago, IL 60605. This table is optional.

Custom locator styles or locator styles provided by third parties may define a different set of roles for reference datasets.

When creating an address locator with reference data that contains millions of features, it is necessary to have at least 3 to 4 times the size of the data in free disk space on the drive containing your temp directory because files used to build the locator are written to this location before the locator is copied to the output location. If you do not have enough disk space, the tool will fail at some point during execution when it runs out of space. Also, keep in mind that when creating very large locators, you should have a machine with enough RAM to handle large memory-intensive processes. It is also recommended to install Background Geoprocessing (64-bit) and run the tool with background geoprocessing enabled.

3. Field Map

The mapping of reference data fields used by the address locator style to fields in the reference datasets. Fields with an asterisk (*) next to their names are required by the address locator style.

To determine the alias name for a reference data field used by a locator style, open the Create Address Locator tool dialog box and choose the locator style. The name that appears in the Field Name column of the Field Map control is the field's alias name.

4. Output Address Locator

The address locator to create. Saving the locator to a file folder allows you to take advantage of performance improvements, multithreading capabilities, and suggestions support. Once the locator is created, additional properties and options can be modified in the locator's settings.

5. Configuration Keyword (optional)

The configuration keyword that determines the storage parameters of the table in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)—enterprise and file geodatabases only.

6. Enable suggestions (optional)

Allows character-by-character auto-complete suggestions to be generated for user input in a client application. This capability facilitates the interactive search user experience by reducing the number of characters that need to be typed before a suggested match is obtained. The idea is that a client application can provide a list of suggestions which is updated with each character entered by a user until the place they are looking for is returned in the list.

Only the locator styles provided by Esri can be used to build locators with suggestions enabled. The suggestion functionality is only exposed when such a locator is published as a geocode service. Locators with suggestions enabled can only be saved in a file folder; they cannot be saved in a geodatabase.

1. Checked—Suggestions are enabled for the locator.
2. Unchecked—Suggestions are disabled for the locator. This is the default.