topic Re: Multiple Locators (World Address and What3Words) and reverse geocoding in webmap or fieldmap? in ArcGIS Online Questions

Multiple Locators (World Address and What3Words) and reverse geocoding in webmap or fieldmap?

David_Brooks — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:38:10 GMT

Is it possible to right mouse click in a web map, select "What's here?" and have the reverse geocode present the reverse geocode results from 2 or more organisation locator services?

We've set up What3Words, which is great for field workers needing to populate these values or navigate to w3w locations, but it looks like an organisation default locator (the one at the top of the list in the org settings) is the only one that a) pulls into field maps, and b) is used for reverse geocoding in a webmap or field map.

From my limited investigations, it looks like the current workaround is to have custom locators (and a world address locator "view") and then use custom group sharing of these to restrict locator access to various users. Not a solution, but a clunky workaround.

Re: Multiple Locators (World Address and What3Words) and reverse geocoding in webmap or fieldmap?

ShirleyBaffoe — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:30:28 GMT

Hi David,

I'm excited to say this is coming in the upcoming ArcGIS Online 2026 R1 release and ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1 releases!

When you configure locator services in your org, you will also have to option of allowing reverse geocode (if the custom locator supports it and the locators services match the esri locator patterns). Also if you have multiple locators configured in your org settings that have reverse geocode configured, then what's here? will return results for all configured locators.

Shirley

Re: Multiple Locators (World Address and What3Words) and reverse geocoding in webmap or fieldmap?

David_Brooks — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:03:20 GMT

@ShirleyBaffoe this is great news! perfectly timed.

Do you happen to know if this functionality will therefore translate into Field Maps? Or will that require further development?

Re: Multiple Locators (World Address and What3Words) and reverse geocoding in webmap or fieldmap?

ShirleyBaffoe — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:52:04 GMT

@David_Brooks This will require additional development to get it into Field Maps. I think you should reach out to ESRI support to log an enhancement request to get this in front of the fields maps development team.

Shirley