ERROR 000010: Geocode addresses failed. Failed to execute (GeocodeAddresses)

JulianKatz-Samuels

Hi all,

I'm trying to use python to geocode a set of files, but it returns the above error after a few minutes of running the code every time. I've read that I might need to convert my files into a .dbf format, but I'm not sure. I've put my code below.

#Julian Katz-Samuels
#May 1, 2013
#Geocode addresses

import arcpy

arcpy.env.workplace="X:\ebruch\shared"

parts=range(10)
parts.remove(0)
parts=map(str, parts)

years=["2000", "2001", "2002", "2003", "2004", "2005", "2006", "2007", "2008", "2009"]

Geocoder = r"GIS Servers\arcgis on tasks.arcgisonline.com\Locators\TA_Address_NA_10.geocodeServer"

for i in years:
    for j in parts:
        address_table= r"X:\ebruch\shared\HistoryFile" + i + "_part" + j +".csv"
        geocode_result= r"X:\ebruch\shared\GeocodedHistoryFiles\GeocodedHistoryFile" + i + "_part" + j 
        arcpy.GeocodeAddresses_geocoding(address_table, Geocoder, "Address SRmailSTREETNAME VISIBLE NONE;City SRmailCITY VISIBLE NONE;State SRmailSTATE VISIBLE NONE;Zip SRmailZIP VISIBLE NONE", geocode_result, "STATIC")
print "Done!"

Best,
Julian

RichardFairhurst

Hi, 

Thanks for the reply. The error is that it can't find the address locator. I don't understand why this is occuring since I checked that I got the correct file path. One odd thing is that it seems to be reading the file in incorrectly. Consider the following code and error: 

>>> open(r'GIS Servers\arcgis on tasks.arcgisonline.com\Locators\TA_Address_NA_10.GeocodeServer')
Runtime error <type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'GIS Servers\\arcgis on tasks.arcgisonline.com\\Locators\\TA_Address_NA_10.GeocodeServer'

It seems to read in too many back slashes. I have also tried to open other files on my computer in python in arcgis and it doesn't work. Could there be a problem with python in arcgis where it doesn't allow me to open other files? 

Thanks, 
Julian

The number of backslashes shown is correct, since backslash is an escape character to python and in order for python to resolve it as an actual character it either must be preceeded with the raw qualifier (the r in front of the quoted string) or each literal backslash character must be preceeded by an escape backslash character.

I don't know how your servers are set up, but in my system I would have expected two backslashes would preceed the server name if this is a dfs setup, i.e.,

open(r'\\GIS Servers\arcgis on tasks.arcgisonline.com\Locators\TA_Address_NA_10.GeocodeServer')