Geocoding Tools
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- Geocoding is the process of assigning a location, usually in the form of coordinate values, to an address by comparing the descriptive location elements in the address to those present in the reference material. Addresses come in many forms, ranging from the common address format of house number followed by the street name and succeeding information to other location descriptions such as postal zone or census tract. In essence, an address includes any type of information that distinguishes a place.
Geocoding tools
Geocoding tools, learn how to use all geocoding tools:
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.
Create Composite Address Locator
Creates a composite address locator. A composite address locator consists of two or more individual address locators that allow addresses to be matched against the multiple address locators.
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.
Geocode Addresses
Geocodes a table of addresses. This process requires a table that stores the addresses you want to geocode and an address locator or a composite address locator. This tool matches the addresses against the address locator and saves the result for each input record in a new point feature class. When using the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service, this operation may consume credits.
Rebuild Address Locator
Rebuilds an address locator to update the locator with the current reference data. Since an address locator contains a snapshot of the reference data when it was created, it will not geocode addresses against the updated data when the geometry and attributes of the reference data are changed. To geocode addresses against the current version of the reference data, the address locator must be rebuilt if you want to update the changes in the locator.
Rematch Addresses
Rematches addresses in a geocoded feature class.
Reverse Geocode
Creates addresses from point locations in a feature class. The reverse geocoding process searches for the nearest address or intersection for the point location based on the specified search distance. When using the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service, this operation may consume credits.
Standardize Addresses
Standardizes the address information in a table or feature class.
Standardizing the address components in your reference data into multiple address fields was a necessary step before building an address locator prior to ArcGIS Desktop 10.0. This step is no longer required because the standardization process occurs when the address locator is built regardless of whether the address components are stored in a single field or split across multiple fields. Standardizing the reference data and normalizing abbreviations and periods are not recommended at ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 and later because they will not improve geocoding performance or quality as this is now done during the geocoding process.
Addresses are often presented in different forms that may contain various abbreviations of words, such as W for WEST or ST for STREET. Based on an address style you select, the address can be split into multiple parts, such as House Number, Prefix Direction, Prefix Type, Street Name Suffix Type, Unit Type, and Unit Number. The address style specifies the components of an address and determines how the components are ordered and standardized; however, there is no guarantee how the data will be standardized based on the logic in the address locator style and the input data. Depending on the applications, some address styles may expand the value of a word instead of abbreviating it.
The input address you want to standardize can be stored in a single field. If the address information has already been split into multiple fields in the input feature class or table, this tool can concatenate the fields on the fly and standardize the information.
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