topic Re: bulk geocode service in ArcGIS Online Questions

bulk geocode service

JayLarsen — Tue, 28 May 2024 22:41:26 GMT

I have to geocode about 500k addresses (all in AZ USA).

That should be around 20k credits. Which is about $2400 worth of credits.

I thought there used to be an ESRI "bulk geocoding" service that was cheaper or something?

Is there a cheaper way to do this? That's a year's worth of AGOL subscription in credits alone...there must be a cheaper way?

Re: bulk geocode service

MichaelVolz — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:52:33 GMT

There is a free Census based geocode service, but it would need to be broken up into batches (Not sure it is worth it with that many records)

Re: bulk geocode service

JayLarsen — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:17:28 GMT

Oh yeah? What's the URL?

Must be this one?

https://help.bdc.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/5341095744283-How-to-Use-the-Census-Geocoder

Thanks! Makes me think googling around a bit might turn something up...

Re: bulk geocode service

ConstantinePapadakis — Thu, 30 May 2024 23:53:13 GMT

I have used the Google Reverse Geocode API with success. You would use the Google Geocode API. Google has tool to estimate your costs. I I built a Excel Workbook template with a starter cell of some xml conversion language that includes the google api. I drop a table of coordinates from Pro to the workbook which auto converts the data. Works well. Let me know if you want the step by step youtube tutorial I followed.

Also, you might try getting some quotes from vendors/ list aggregator type companies.

Re: bulk geocode service

JayLarsen — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:53:48 GMT

Thanks. I checked the costs, and they're basically the same as ESRI, but with more data prep.

I'm a bit shocked there wasn't a cheaper solution anywhere that was attractive.