topic Re: Suggestions and Address Locators in Addressing Questions

Suggestions and Address Locators

JoeBorgione — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:42:40 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.4.0

I have created a series of address locators using the ArcGIS Pro create address locator tool syntax in python. In each of them I set set the enable_suggestions option to 'ENABLE'. However, when I add any of them to an ArcGIS Pro session, the Use Suggestions check box is grayed out. Is it possible to actually use suggestions with the older style of locators in ArcGIS Pro?

Brad Niemand‌

Re: Suggestions and Address Locators

BradNiemand — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:14:08 GMT

Joe,

Locators created with the Create Address Locator tool do not support local suggestions. Only locators created with the Create Locator tool support local suggestions in Pro. You would need to publish those locators to ArcGIS Enterprise for suggestions to be supported in Pro.

Brad

Re: Suggestions and Address Locators

JoeBorgione — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:27:17 GMT

Thanks Brad.

The whole publish/share thing for geocoding services in pro has my head spinning.

If you look at my screen capture, you'll see Salt Lake County Geocoder, which is a composite of old style locators that is on our stand alone server and registered as an item in our AGOL so it's available to all of our users. When it is added to an ArcGIS Pro session, suggestions are provided. Of course, some of them are wonky, but that's what I'm trying to work out: create a series of locators that have valid suggestions. I don't know if that's even possible with the old style locators.

Re: Suggestions and Address Locators

BradNiemand — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:22:21 GMT

Joe,

There is a limitation with the old style locators where they would not verify the input house number during suggestions for performance reasons. This was addressed with the new locators. The only way around it is with the new locators.

Brad

Re: Suggestions and Address Locators

JoeBorgione — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:34:50 GMT

Truth be told, I'd like to fan the embers of the new locators back to life. Creating them is the easy part; I've got all the python written.... Publishing/sharing is a challenge....

Look for a new thread about multi field versus single field coming soon in a forum near you....

Re: Suggestions and Address Locators

BradNiemand — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:36:26 GMT

Joe,

Is there something that I can assist you with in regards to publishing/sharing?

Brad

Re: Suggestions and Address Locators

JoeBorgione — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:53:31 GMT

Not yet. But probably soon. I need to figure out how to publish or share a locator (multi-role locator, not composite) such that our users can consume them as they do our old school published locators. We have users that match addresses in the typical fashion; interactively and batch, but we also have tons of web apps county wide that do address verification that consume rest-end services. The latter is what I'm more concerned about. We have an internal portal as well as a public facing server, so for me it's complicated.