topic Re: Geocode points by polygon ID in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Geocode points by polygon ID

JeremyNeufeld — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:27:34 GMT

I'm pretty new to ArcGIS / ArchGIS Pro and I'm hoping I can get some assistance with this task I need to accomplish. I have an excel spreadsheet with data that I need to place as points on the map. The points need to be placed within a parcel polygon where the parcel ID = table ID. The point can be placed anywhere within the parcel, that doesn't matter and there may be more than 1 point per parcel.

I used to work with MapInfo and this was quite easy to do, I'm hoping it can be done within ArcGIS. Thanks for any help.

Re: Geocode points by polygon ID

JoeBorgione — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:10:21 GMT

First thing is you need to create a Geocoding Locator based on you parcels data that uses the parcel id as the matching attribute. Take a look here to start with: About geocoding a table of addresses—Help | ArcGIS Desktop

You'll probably end up with a locator based on a single field locator style:Commonly used address locator styles—Help | ArcGIS Desktop

Re: Geocode points by polygon ID

JeremyNeufeld — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:30:57 GMT

I will be using a single field for the locator. The problem I'm seeing is with the locator service. I'm not doing a location based on an address that can be found using any of the locator service. It's matching the Parcel ID in the spreadsheet with the Parcel ID in the feature class. Essentially it's a join however I need to create the points on the map. It doesn't seem that I can use my Parcel feature class as a locator service.

Re: Geocode points by polygon ID

JoeBorgione — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:20:22 GMT

It's a very common practice to match to given id of a polygon.

It doesn't seem that I can use my Parcel feature class as a locator service.

Are you getting an error? What is your process to build the locator? Version of ArcGIS?

Re: Geocode points by polygon ID

JeremyNeufeld — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:30:20 GMT

I was able to get it to work. I had to first create a locator service using my Parcel data and the ID field. I was then able to successfully geocode against that.

Thanks.

Re: Geocode points by polygon ID

JoeBorgione — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:51:00 GMT

Cool!