Geocoding help
Hi Shana Britt,
Thanks for the information. Currently I am experimenting with both US Address - Single House as well as Single House Subaddress.
With our Civic Number, we sometimes have a Civic Number Suffix. So there could be a 234 Mackenzie Ave as well as a 234A Mackenzie Ave. Is there a field-mapping in the Single House Subaddress I can use for this?? Currently neither of the styles mentioned above are catching these addresses with a suffix on the Civic Number.
Also, when using the Subaddress style locator you mentioned to map ROAD_FULL to StreetName, but in the Subaddress mapping there is a FullStreetName mapping so I have done it there. Should I switch it to map to StreetName??
Thanks,
Brian,
Sorry for the delayed response, I've been busy with finishing up certifying the next release of ArcGIS Desktop and needed to mock up some of the data based on your screen shots to determine what was wrong and how to fix it.
1. The reason "1625 Jaywin Circle" didn't match was because of the fields you used for field mapping when building the address locator, which was based on the 'TYPE_SHORT' field. This field contained and abbreviation ('Cl') for "Circle" that was not part of the street suffix type aliases grammar in the address locator style.Aliases provide a mechanism to support word substitution beyond what is provided by spelling substitution. Whichever alias form is found in the reference or input data is treated as equivalent. Below is the alias section for Circle in the grammar for the address locator style which does not include 'Cl'. If you had used 'ROAD_TYPE_FULL' field when building the locator searching for "1625 Jaywin Circle" would have found a match in the Locate pane.
Before:
<def name="_ST_Circle" is_alias_list="true">
<alt>Circle</alt>
<alt>Cir</alt>
<alt>Ci</alt>
<alt>Circulo</alt>
<alt>Circ</alt>
<alt>Circl</alt>
<alt>Corcle</alt>
<alt>Cr</alt>
<alt>Crcl</alt>
<alt>Crcle</alt>
<alt>Crl</alt>
</def>
If you use this article as a guide, you can modify the address locator template to add the 'Cl' abbreviation to the Circle street suffix type to look like the following.How To: Add city aliases to the address locator style
At step 2 in the article search for "suf_type_ext" then scroll down or search for "Circle" until you get to the section I referenced above. After modifying the USAddress.lot.xml recreate the address locator and you should be able to get matches in the Locate pane and when geocoding the table if the street suffix type in the input address is 'Circle' or 'Cl'.
After:
<def name="_ST_Circle" is_alias_list="true">
<alt>Circle</alt>
<alt>Cir</alt>
<alt>Ci</alt>
<alt>Circulo</alt>
<alt>Circ</alt>
<alt>Circl</alt>
<alt>Cl</alt>
<alt>Corcle</alt>
<alt>Cr</alt>
<alt>Crcl</alt>
<alt>Crcle</alt>
<alt>Crl</alt>
</def>
2. Here are some screen shots to clarify my previous explanation about which fields in the reference data in your screenshots that could be used for building the locator. It is not required to map Full Street Name in order to get matches when geocoding, it is only used as an output field when batch geocoding. It's there to use for labeling if you did not had a field that could be used for labeling the geocoded point.
Mock data:
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Possible field mappings:
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3. To handle the house number suffix when using the US Address - Singlehouse Subaddress style to build a locator, concatenate the house number, house number suffix and/or house number prefix in a single field and use the new field to map to House Number when building the locator. See the difference in the mock data example for FULL_CIVIC_NUM and this example includes FULL_CIVIC_NUM.
Results based on the locator field mappings above:
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