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ArcGIS 10 - create address locator

LesaHavert — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:24:57 GMT

I am trying to geocode a large number of hospital addresses, and am having trouble creating a new address locator with the ESRI Data & Maps for version 10. The addresses I want to geocode are typical street address, city, state, 5-digit zip. The address locator style I chose is "US address - ZIP 5-digit," and the reference data I chose are "streets" in the new DataMaps10. When trying to create the locator, I get a message that ArcGIS has encountered a serious problem, and ESRI asks for me to send an error report with my email address and what I was trying to accomplish. Note: I created an address locator in version 9.3 that worked well for geocoding addresses. The address locator styles have changed since the previous version. Please advise. Thanks.

Lesa Havert
Market Research
UC Davis Health System
(916) 734-9035
(916) 734-9066 (fax)
lesa.havert@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Re: ArcGIS 10 - create address locator

AgathaWong — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:16:03 GMT

Lesa,

The US Address - ZIP 5-digit locator style should be used for ZIP code point or polygon data. To create a locator for Street centerline data, please use the US Address - Dual Ranges locator style.

This online help topic describes how each address locator style is used:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Commonly_used_address_locator_styles/00250000000v000000/

Agatha Wong
ESRI

Re: ArcGIS 10 - create address locator

LesaHavert — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:10:43 GMT

Thanks for your response, Agatha. I ended up using the street address locator (created 8/20/2010) in the DataMaps10 folder on my C: drive.