topic Small wins with geocoding in Address Points Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/address-points-questions/small-wins-with-geocoding/m-p/817396#M52 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I've been struggling with creating new style locators, and publishing them blah,blah,blah for a while, but I just came upon something that is really cool, and I consider it a win.</P><P></P><P>To test new locator functionality, I got a couple thousand addresses from a permitting data base here in the county.&nbsp; As usual, the addresses were pretty ugly, but after a quick visual scan, I decided on a quick python clean up routine and went about geocoding them.</P><P></P><P>After clean up, one the address looks like this:&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">IN-STORE (WHOLESALE) HARMONS 4874 WEST 6200 SOUTH KEARNS UT</STRONG></P><P>which in my view is about as bad a single field address to match as you can get. But....</P><P></P><P>My geocoding process returned a 61.25 score against a point address that has the address of 4874 W 6200 S.&nbsp; That's pretty cool in my&nbsp; book.&nbsp; This turns the tables quite a bit for me as I generally don't&nbsp;consider anything under about 85% as reliable.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:50:15 GMT JoeBorgione 2019-12-17T17:50:15Z Small wins with geocoding https://community.esri.com/t5/address-points-questions/small-wins-with-geocoding/m-p/817396#M52 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I've been struggling with creating new style locators, and publishing them blah,blah,blah for a while, but I just came upon something that is really cool, and I consider it a win.</P><P></P><P>To test new locator functionality, I got a couple thousand addresses from a permitting data base here in the county.&nbsp; As usual, the addresses were pretty ugly, but after a quick visual scan, I decided on a quick python clean up routine and went about geocoding them.</P><P></P><P>After clean up, one the address looks like this:&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">IN-STORE (WHOLESALE) HARMONS 4874 WEST 6200 SOUTH KEARNS UT</STRONG></P><P>which in my view is about as bad a single field address to match as you can get. But....</P><P></P><P>My geocoding process returned a 61.25 score against a point address that has the address of 4874 W 6200 S.&nbsp; That's pretty cool in my&nbsp; book.&nbsp; This turns the tables quite a bit for me as I generally don't&nbsp;consider anything under about 85% as reliable.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:50:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/address-points-questions/small-wins-with-geocoding/m-p/817396#M52 JoeBorgione 2019-12-17T17:50:15Z