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Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AprilNunn — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:42:15 GMT

I have been trying for hours to create a Single House locator using our point address feature class in ArcSDE (or in a folder - neither works). I do not get any usable error information, sometimes ArcCatalog crashes and others the 'background process' fails. I have tried right-clicking the connection and selecting New, Address Locator. I have tried using the Create Locator tool in ArcToolbox, a model and ultimately a Python script which also crashes. Any ideas what I should be looking for?

I was able to create a Dual Range locator using our centerline feature class.

Any help appreciated,

April Nunn

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

JoeBorgione — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:34:57 GMT

I have been trying for hours to create a Single House locator using our point address feature class in ArcSDE (or in a folder - neither works). I do not get any usable error information, sometimes ArcCatalog crashes and others the 'background process' fails. I have tried right-clicking the connection and selecting New, Address Locator. I have tried using the Create Locator tool in ArcToolbox, a model and ultimately a Python script which also crashes. Any ideas what I should be looking for?

I was able to create a Dual Range locator using our centerline feature class.

Any help appreciated,

April Nunn

Does the feature class you are using in your locator draw up okay by itself? This is nothing more that a wild a## guess (wag) but could the feature class be corrupted some how? Could there any empty geometry records? Perhaps you could run the Check Geometry tool to find out.

Good Luck-

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AprilNunn — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:54:06 GMT

The feature class looks good, just built in a clean database this morning. It is the same data I am using in another database with a 9.3.1 locator. But it is big - almost 500,000 points. Could size be a problem?

Thanks,
April

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

JoeBorgione — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:07:26 GMT

The feature class looks good, just built in a clean database this morning. It is the same data I am using in another database with a 9.3.1 locator. But it is big - almost 500,000 points. Could size be a problem?

Thanks,
April

Try pulling out 50K of them and create a locator. If that works, try 100K, etc etc...

You mention a 9.3.1 locator; is the one that bails out in 10.x? If so, you may have just discovered the problem....

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AprilNunn — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:29:19 GMT

I tried using just one small area (about 9500 points) this morning without success. I've checked the geometry, looked for missing or corrupt data. I also tried to create a Single Field locator on the full address attribute in my feature class - that didn't work either.

Yes, I'm trying to create a v.10 locator. My 9.3.1 locator on the full feature class works fine. My gut feeling is that it's looking for some attribute named or formatted in a certain way. So I'm going to set up a new feature class just like the web help shows and populate it with my data (unless someone has a better suggestion).

Thanks,
April

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

JoeBorgione — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:15:22 GMT

I tried using just one small area (about 9500 points) this morning without success. I've checked the geometry, looked for missing or corrupt data. I also tried to create a Single Field locator on the full address attribute in my feature class - that didn't work either.

Yes, I'm trying to create a v.10 locator. My 9.3.1 locator on the full feature class works fine. My gut feeling is that it's looking for some attribute named or formatted in a certain way. So I'm going to set up a new feature class just like the web help shows and populate it with my data (unless someone has a better suggestion).

Thanks,
April

Just for fun use those exact 9500 points that failed in 10.x in a 9.3.1 locator. Leave everything in the same place, same attributes etc. If they work in 9.3.1, you may have joined the bug-finders club. Be sure to log it with tech support if it is.

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AprilNunn — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:59:45 GMT

After many, many, many attempts to build a Single House locator (v.10) over the last three days I have trown in the towel. Even if I build a feature class just like the desktop help specifies it will not create. Absolutely ridiculous!

However, I was able to copy the locator from my 9.3.1 database and after rebuilding (repairing to point to my v.10 feature class) it works fine. At least so far...

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

MartinLoidl — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:48:59 GMT

Unfortunately there seem to be more bugs like this in the Geocoding-Tools for ArcGIS 10: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/33541-Problems-Rematching-Geocoding-Results?

Up to now neither any SP nor anything else fixed the bugs. And ESRI doesn't seem to care a lot 😞 ... frustrating!

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

BradNiemand — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:41:40 GMT

I would suggest that you contact tech support if you are having issues building locators. Also, do you have SP2 installed?

Brad

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AprilNunn — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:51:22 GMT

Also, do you have SP2 installed?

Brad

No, just SP1. I cannot install SP2 ArcSDE on the server as it is not yet supported by Azteca Cityworks. If I install SP2 on my desktop and try to create the locator in the database which locator styles/rules will be used - from the server or my desktop? And will it matter?

When I try to create the locator now (after re-installing) I get ERROR 000042 : Failed to create the address locator (ArcGIS 10 Help). I know I have permission, enough disk space and valid connection so it must come down to the locator style or the geocoding rule files. Any ideas?

April

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AimeiChen — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:09:47 GMT

No, just SP1. I cannot install SP2 ArcSDE on the server as it is not yet supported by Azteca Cityworks. If I install SP2 on my desktop and try to create the locator in the database which locator styles/rules will be used - from the server or my desktop? And will it matter?

When I try to create the locator now (after re-installing) I get ERROR 000042 : Failed to create the address locator (ArcGIS 10 Help). I know I have permission, enough disk space and valid connection so it must come down to the locator style or the geocoding rule files. Any ideas?

April

Hi, April
I am currently having same problem as you had. Did you get it work now? If so, would you please share your thoughts with me?

Thanks,
AC

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

AprilNunn — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:58:27 GMT

Sorry, no good news to report. I created a second database, upgraded it to SP2 (as suggested here in a previous post) but that didn't work either. I read in another thread that the problem is having null values in the feature class columns used in the locator. But my experience is that it's not just null but empty strings that may be involved. ESRI is apparently aware of the bug but it isn't a high priority. Too bad - does anyone have all the directional attributes populated in their addresses?

My workaround was to copy an existing locator from a 9.3.1 database to my v.10 database and rebuild it with the feature class there. It works, but if I try to make changes to it it breaks. And if I use it in a composite locator it works, unless i change or rebuild it.

See this thread as well - http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/30234-ArcMap-crashes-when-geocoding-after-SP2-install

If you figure out anything different please post.

Thanks,

April

Re: Create Single House Locator Fails or Crashes ArcCatalog

JavadSalimi — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:14:45 GMT

Hi all,

As per the following post, try outputting to a local drive then copying/pasting to sde:

https://community.esri.com/thread/130111

(see steven_3535's comment)

I was having the same issue and it worked for me.

Cheers,

Javad