Question on Creating a Locator

JoyetaChowdhury

Hi, I'm a bit new to ArcPro, and I've been having issues trying to use the locator tool. I'm working on this project where I'm trying to see if the distribution of public park locations are in a pattern that would correlate with historical redlining boundaries. I planned to use the optimized hotspot analysis tool for this. 

The main issue is that I have 222 locations I want to input along with their establishment year and acreage. I made a excel sheet with all of this information and I want to use the create locator tool, then the composite address locator, and then geocode the addresses, but I keep getting stuck at the primary table section as it won't accept the table I'm inputting (there's a geometry issue it says?) I think I'm inputting the primary table incorrectly, but I don't know what exactly I'm doing that is wrong. Is the process I chose incorrect?

 

 

ShanaBritt

@JoyetaChowdhury The error you are getting is because you are using an Excel spreadsheet as the primary data, which needs to be a feature class (shapefile, file geodatabase, sde). If the data in the spreadsheet was exported from a feature class, you need to break up the string in the Address field into multiple fields that contain the individual address components (house number, street direction, street name, etc...). If you have ArcGIS Pro 3.0 or later you can use the Split Address Into Components tool, otherwise the Standardize Addresses tool is available in ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and earlier. Both tools output a new feature class and splits the address components into individual fields that are necessary to build a locator with the Create Locator tool.

 

The following tutorials are available, which should help you with creating the locator.

• https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geocoding/tutorial-create-a-locator.htm
• https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geocoding/tutorial-create-a-multirole-locator.htm
• https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geocoding/tutorial-create-a-locator-with-more-than-one-dataset-of-same-role.htm

 

-Shana