Matching addresses for new polygons?

MarlanaZink1

Hi there! 

I just created polygons of building footprints from a figure ground map that I georeferenced (i.e. raster image --> polygons), and now I have building outlines with a mostly empty attributes table. I am wondering if it's possible to have ArcGIS somehow match these buildings to an address that would go in the attributes table, or if this is something that I have to do manually, by searching each building's address and typing it in myself? 

I played around and created an address locator, then tried to reverse geocode the polygons that way, but I just ended up creating points that didn't show up anywhere on my map....(when I clicked "zoom to layer", it just took me all the way out into the projection of the entire world, lol.)  I do not have X,Y coordinates. 

Thank you! 

JoeBorgione

If you have access parcels with location address on them you could perform a spatial join between your building footprints and parcels to get the address; if you have address points you can do the same.  Other than that, I think you are looking at a ton of manual editing.