topic Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon? in Geoprocessing Questions

Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

CameronBlandy — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:16:22 GMT

We have a cadastre polygon feature class. Some of the features have a Name associated with the lot (i.e. Neighbourhood Park). I would
like to be able to reverse geocode using coordinates to find out which Park Name the coordinates fall in. I have tried the using the General – Single
Field style but it only geocodes to the centroid of the polygon if I am within the distance specified. I also tried using the Gazetteer style and that was a
little better but did not seem to work in a Composite Locator when combined with Street based locators. Maybe I need a custom style.

I am using 10.0 SP5.

I hope somebody is able to help me or point me in the correct direction.

Regards,

Cameron

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

CameronBlandy — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:22:23 GMT

Brad from ESRI gave me the solution so I am posting here for all users. Here it is:

Go to the locator style (%ArcgisInstallDirectory%\Locators) and open the General.lot.xml in a text editor (I would suggest Notepadd++). Look for mapping_schema name="SingleField"t used here so t worry about that) in the XML file. If you look in the XML just ” section.

If you comment this out, the locator will be built with polygons instead of points. It will make the locator slower but will work better for reverse geocoding. You can comment this out by adding a “<!—“ before the first “<conversions>” tag and “-->” after the“</conversions>” tag like you see below:

<!--<conversions>

</conversions>-->

After this you will need to re-create your locator (not rebuild).

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

AndrewMilanes — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:49:25 GMT

What is the equivalent solution when using Pro?

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

BruceHarold — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:06:19 GMT

Hi the procedure is the same if you are using a Single Field style locator, its just the location of the style file in Pro has changed, by default it will be at: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\Locators

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

KadeChapman3 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:22:18 GMT

Is this still an option in ArcGIS Pro 3.3?

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

ShanaBritt — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:11:58 GMT

@KadeChapman3 This option is not available for locators that are built with the Create Locator tool or Create Feature Locator tool. The option was only available for locators built with the Create Address Locator tool in ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro 2.6 and earlier.

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

KadeChapman3 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:24:31 GMT

@ShanaBritt Is there a way to get the same functionality in ArcGIS Pro? I want to avoid a reverse geocode match being based on the nearest polygon centroid, but based on what polygon it is intersecting.

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

ShanaBritt — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:59:49 GMT

@KadeChapman3 The is no way in ArcGIS Pro to modify the locator template to return the polygon as you could with the classic locators in ArcMap that is referenced as the solution for the original question in this post.

-Shana

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

MattFancher1 — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:00:35 GMT

@ShanaBritt We are bumping into an issue similar to what @KadeChapman3 describes. We want a reverse geocode to return a polygon result if the searched x/y is within the polygon. We do not want the reverse geocode to return results if it is outside the polygon, but within the search distance of the polygon centroid. Is there anything new or coming to Pro/Enterprise that would support that?

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

ShanaBritt — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:19:41 GMT

@MattFancher1 What type of polygon data is the locator built with? What does it represent? Which roles are used in the locator used for reverse geocoding?

There is nothing new in the latest release that supports returning a polygon as a geocode result.

Re: Reverse Geocode inside a Parcel polygon?

MattFancher1 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:46:35 GMT

@ShanaBritt thanks for the reply! And sorry, because my previous post wasn't clear. The situation is this: we have a web app that residents can use to request service from our city. They specify the location of the service request by dropping a pin on a map. Dropping a pin triggers a reverse geocode to get the "closest" address. The geocode service we call uses a locator with three reference layers: address points, street centerlines, and park polygons. Park polygons are included as the POI type because we want any pin dropped within the park to be tied to the official park address. That works as expected. However, we have a few edge cases where residents drop pins outside the park, but the reverse geocode call still returns the park address. We think that's because the parks in the edge cases are very small, and their centroid is less than 25 meters from the perimeter of the park, which is the search tolerance for the POI centroid feature type. Hopefully that makes more sense. Is there a way to avoid returns from the park polygon centroids when pins are dropped outside the parks?