Geocoding fails

Question

Hello
I'm trying to geocode addresses in Arcview 10. Every time it just says
"there was an error trying to process this table."
I use the 10.0 North America Geocode service or the 
US Streets Geocode service. Tried in Arcview and Arccatalog. Using Excel 2007 sheet. The addresses are correct spelled right and everything.

Any Ideas?

JoeBorgione · Answer

Yes, I formatted the table to be compatible with DBF, not easy, there are so many ridiculous rules! But that worked.. Thanks!

My personal approach is to bring the address data into a geodatabase of some flavor.  That way your geocoding results can be written to the same database.  Tidy little package.

DBF files are so.... 80s...
:cool:

JamesHarrington · Answer

Yes, I formatted the table to be compatible with DBF, not easy, there are so many ridiculous rules! But that worked.. Thanks!

JoeBorgione · Answer

Hello
I'm trying to geocode addresses in Arcview 10. Every time it just says
"there was an error trying to process this table."
I use the 10.0 North America Geocode service or the 
US Streets Geocode service. Tried in Arcview and Arccatalog. Using Excel 2007 sheet. The addresses are correct spelled right and everything.

Any Ideas?

This is a farily common problem, but I'm a believer in teaching a man to fish:  try a search with the keywords excel, addresses.  You'll find a few posts.  A couple of them I've responded to.

Let us know what you find out!