topic Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units in Data Management Questions

Locator Style for Apt or Units

DaleSimper — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:34:00 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has an ArcGIS 10 locator style file that will geocode house addresses with Apt or Unit #'s. I have gone through Appendix G of the Customizing Locators document, which is suppose to allow this, but still after customizing my style file as the document instructs I'm not able to geocode Apt or unit #'s. So I was wondering if anyone has had any success in customizing a style file to allow this and are willing to share. Thanks.

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BruceHarold — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:00:48 GMT

Hi

Please try the attached style.

Regards

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

DaleSimper — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:53:45 GMT

That works great, thanks a lot Bruce.

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

DaleSimper — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:58:33 GMT

Bruce, thanks again for the style file. I've built a locator from it and it works great for addresses with a Unit Number, but I've noticed that when I geocode an address that doesn't have a unit number it still keeps the unit separator #, (ie 100 E 200 N #). So I was wondering is there a way to have it keep the separator when there is a unit number and to not have it when there isn't a unit number? I have a 9.3 style file that does this so I'm assuming it's possible with 10 too. Thanks again.

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

TracyGarrison — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:32:15 GMT

Hi

Please try the attached style.

Regards

Bruce

This locator template appears to work but if you try to geocode in batch then all apartments at one address will match with a tie (if ties are allowed) at one of the address points at random. So if you have 3 points at one Address:

100 W Oak St, Apt 1, City, State
100 W Oak St, Apt 2, City, State
100 W Oak St, Apt 3, City, State

If you review for re-match and filter on the ties and select the 100 W Oak St, Apt 1, City, State record and view Candidates you will see all three addresses listed above with scores of 100 each as candidates. So it appears as thought the locator template is not adjusting the score based on the unit number?

The white paper "Customizing Locators in ArcGIS 10" needs a lot more imbelishing to help us understand how to actually "customize" the locator. This white paper describes the "theory of customizing the locator". I was excited to see the Appendix areas especially Appendix "G" but again, There was not enough information contained within the appendix to actually perform the customization. A tutorial on "How to incorporate Apartment or Unit number into a Locator template" would be very helpful. Also a Locator Template filled with Comments to help those of us that want to modify the locator. Something like "Modify the values below to adjust the score values associated with the address components".

Thanks for your help

Tracy

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BradNiemand — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:00:42 GMT

I have attached a locator style that fixes the issues that you are seeing.

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BillRose — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:27:08 GMT

Is there any plan to roll a unit locator style such as those posted here into the core product? We need to build something similar but I am not keen on using something that is not officially supported.

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

DanMcCoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:41:42 GMT

Is there any plan to roll a unit locator style such as those posted here into the core product? We need to build something similar but I am not keen on using something that is not officially supported.

You can vote for the idea to increase the chance of ESRI considering it...
http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000by67

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

DarrochKaye — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:07:17 GMT

I have attached a locator style that fixes the issues that you are seeing.

I am still seeing the # marks as described above when using the second file provided. Do I need a service pack to sort this? I'm currently not running any service parks on ArcGIS 10 Desktop.

Thanks,
DK

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

JeffWard — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:33:25 GMT

I have been using this locator style for a while now, but I have run into a problem when a hyphen seperates a building and unit number. For example, in my reference data I have the unit numbers in the format of #6A (building 6 unit A), but the table I am trying to match uses a hyphen like #6-A. The score is dropped to 56.34 and and any unit with the same building number gets the same score (#6A and #6B etc get the same 56.34 score). What do I need to modify to get #6-A to match #6A without a score penalty?

Thanks

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

RoyJackson1 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:12:55 GMT

All,

I will throw my version into the ring. There is another thread on the forums that covers some of this, but in a nutshell the attached style handles addresses with fractional addresses as well as units. Full disclosure: I made my best attempt at customizing my own locator style but it ended up having some minor "quirks" that I simply could not resolve. Brad, from ESRI, made some edits to the style that resolved the quirks--at least in my case.

Tracy is correct that the white paper does not go quite far enough with information about customizing. And I echo the need for this style to be included in the core product. I just promoted the idea linked above.

This download link is dead...

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BrianOevermann — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:06:34 GMT

Roy,

I just noticed your post, so I am attaching the file again.

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BillRose — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:13:00 GMT

Is this for 9.3? The file I found here is not xml.

Roy,

I just noticed your post, so I am attaching the file again.

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BillRose — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:34:20 GMT

Sorry but this link has the same problem as your older post (#10)... The attachment can't be downloaded.

Whoops! In my haste I grabbed the old style. Attached should be the latest. Apologies to all...

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BrianOevermann — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:45:03 GMT

Bill,

I'm not sure why my attachment is not working correctly. Post #35 in the link below should be the same file after Brad from ESRI made some tweaks. There is a lot that the white paper fails to cover...

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/28535-Geocoding-Addresses-with-Apartment-Units?p=128250&viewfull=1#post128250

I "re-zipped" the file and I am attaching it yet again, but I am guessing that it is a problem with the system and not the file specifically.

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BillRose — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:47:55 GMT

That did it. Thanks!

Bill,

I'm not sure why my attachment is not working correctly. Post #35 in the link below should be the same file after Brad from ESRI made some tweaks. There is a lot that the white paper fails to cover...

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/28535-Geocoding-Addresses-with-Apartment-Units?p=128250&viewfull=1#post128250

I "re-zipped" the file and I am attaching it yet again, but I am guessing that it is a problem with the system and not the file specifically.

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BrianOevermann — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:52:13 GMT

Bill,

I'm not sure what was wrong with the original zip file but I am glad it now works! Let me know how it works (if it works) for you.

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BillRose — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:51:19 GMT

I see many of the same parsing issues with this locator that Roy Jackson describes here: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/28535-Geocoding-Addresses-with-Apartment-Units?p=208831&viewfull=1#post208831. For example, "999 Little Knoll Lane" is standardized as HN: "999", SN: "Little", ST: "Knl", UN: "Lane".

Bill,

...Let me know how it works (if it works) for you.

Brian

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

RonnieRichards — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:22:01 GMT

This is an old thread but 10.2 does not seem to support any of the locators provided here. Does anyone have a 10.2 version that supports units. How many more years are we going to have to chase these down in forum threads instead of this being a core locator in the product?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Re: Locator Style for Apt or Units

BrianOevermann — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:34:11 GMT

@Bill,

I got really busy with other stuff and failed to respond to your post from June. I suspect you are getting similar standardization issues as the other style because they are mostly the same style "under the hood". As I have mentioned in this and/or other similar posts, I simply modified esri's existing style to add fractionals and units (with some additional tweaking by Brad from esri because the white paper doesn't go into enough detail). So the modified style is just taking into account additional fields and retains whatever issues might exist in the original style from which it was based.

@Ronnie,
I haven't upgraded to 10.2 yet, so I have no idea if I will experience the same issue nor do I have any way to test. That the 10.1 locators do not work in 10.2 is very unsettling.

@All,
If you even remotely agree that these styles belong in the style list by default, please vote for the idea that is linked in response #8. It is likely the only way esri will listen to our pleas.