Geocoding with Desktop 10.5

Question

Upon upgrading to 10.5, I have found that I am no longer able to access my agency's address locators that were stored in the geodatabases. Do they need to be published as a service now or is there somewhere else they need to be stored on the server instead of inside a geodatabase?

JoeBorgione · Answer

I don't know how your situation is set up, but if you share a directory with these other agencies, I would suggest they create the locators somewhere that you can reach.  The data can be in a geodatabase in that same directory or somewhere else; the locators can point to an enterprise GDB, or a file GDB.  (I'd stay away from personal GDBs and/or shapefiles though). It's just that having a locator within a geodatabase creates a host of problems in and of itself.

If you do not share such resources, then yes, publishing a locator would be the way to go.

Best of luck.

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

depends on how widespread and what type of access is need by all... or is a few, several etc... there is some basic info, anything wider in nature would be as a service http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/geocoding/a-quick-tour-of-geocoding.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_F9046E89169343F2B1C818624F7F072D

NorthPark · Answer

My question was more as to how I can direct the agency to update things on their end. It would appear that they will need to publish all of their locators as services.

Thanks