topic Re: Geocoding toolbar in State & Local Government Questions

Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:54:16 GMT

I'm having issues with the Geocoding toolbar. There is a big long space to enter an address and the tooltip comes up telling you what to do but when I enter the address, nothing happens and I get the Windows error sound as if there is some invisible error message somewhere. I use this toolbar anyways for the Address Inspector to help assign new addresses but it would be nice to use it to quickly pan to a certain address in ArcMap. I attached the image just to be clear it is in the center where I entered a valid address. [ATTACH=CONFIG]34422[/ATTACH]

Re: Geocoding toolbar

StevenGraf1 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:43:26 GMT

I guess I've never seen the geocoding toolbar before. Is this part of a custom toolset? You could use the Find Location Tool ArcGIS Help 10.1 in arcmap to pan to address locations.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:49:25 GMT

That may be the case. I can't tell for sure but I do have an Address Management Add-in that it may be a part of. I believe that came from the Local Government section of the Resource Center. They've changed this around so much in the last couple of years I'm not sure exactly where to find it now. Maybe I'll do some additional tagging to see if that helps.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

BrianOevermann — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:42:56 GMT

Josh,

Looking at your attached graphic, that toolbar is the "standard" geocoding toolbar included in ArcMap. Right-click on a blank area of the toolbar/menu and you can turn on/off various toolbars, including 'Geocoding'. You can also access the same list via the Customize-->Toolbars menu.

That said, your original issue is that nothing is found when you type in an address. The toolbar defaults to the World Geocode Service (ArcGIS Online). Is it possible that this address is not captured by the data that locator is built from? I ignore that locator and instead use the locators built against our data. You can drop down the left-most list in the toolbar and select "<Manage Address Locators...>" and select your own locator(s) to choose from.

After another look at your graphic it appears that you are pointing it to a different locator than the default, so maybe what I wrote above is info you are well-informed about. When was the last time that locator got rebuilt? If the address shown in the graphic is a new addition to your streets data, a match may not be found until you rebuild the locator's indexes. Also, is the locator set up to need a city/state/zipcode? That may be another reason for no results being found. As for the Windows sound, I've never come across that. If the locator doesn't find a match it simply indicates that in a tooltip--at least in my experience.

I don't have the Address Management add-in installed. Since you mentioned that you do have it installed, maybe there is some conflict between the add-in and the "regular" geocoding toolbar (i.e. either a bug or by design).

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:47:01 GMT

Yeah, the tooltip that is displayed is the one that tells you what to enter and Single Line input comes up too and like I said the address inspector works just fine and all other uses of this locator display just fine. I just get the warning sound that I am trying to do something even though an invisible dialog box is open. The sound I am describing is the same one you get when you try to close out of an application without saving and the message comes up asking if you want to save. I removed the Address Management Add-in and nothing changes.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JeffRogers — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:26:02 GMT

Josh, do you see a geocoding service description to the left of the address box? Something like World Geocode Services? Could you describe what you see?

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:40:01 GMT

I assume by your second message that you saw that I posted that in the original post? It is my own locator service.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JeffRogers — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:26:42 GMT

Josh, it looks like you tried to attach an image of the issue your seeing? I am seeing [ATTACH=CONFIG]34422[/ATTACH], any chance you could reattach the image?

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:47:17 GMT

The attachment is there Capture.JPG. This forum thread was brought from the old forums into Geonet so it looks a little funny.

By the way, it doesn't matter which locator I use, I tried the World Geocode Service and came up with the same problem.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JeffRogers — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:09:27 GMT

Josh when you hear the beep do you see a message like this one...or is there just a beep?

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JeffRogers — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:13:12 GMT

If the message is just not showing up, then I haven't seen the issue before, my suggestion is to report it to Esri Customer Service so they can trouble shoot and potentially offer a solution or address it in an update.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:17:58 GMT

Nope just the beep. when I first open an ArcMap session Single Line Input shows up but goes away and hovering over it brings it back. I guess I will report it to Esri support. This is such a bizarre error I don't know what else to do.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:03:42 GMT

Ok, I discovered that my Normal template was corrupt so it was not a bug that could be recreated, it was something on my machine, problem solved. Thanks for your help Jeff, Brian and Steven.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:05:29 GMT

Steven,

I discovered this is the Standard geocoding toolbar works the same way as the Find Location Tool that you mentioned but is its own toolbar.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

PatriceMoore — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:18:19 GMT

Thank you for investigating this. I just ran into the same exact issue with one of my users. Thank you!

Re: Geocoding toolbar

BenTsang — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:58:09 GMT

I'm having a similar, but not exact, problem. My Geocoding Toolbar will not accept any inputs. I'm using my own locator on 10.3. When I type in an address for it to locate and press Enter, nothing happens. No sound, no error message, nothing. It even occurs when using the World Geocode Service.

Hovering over the single line input shows the normal, "Find Address" dialog box. But right-clicking the box shows this:

I've run MXD Doctor and found no corrupt items. Any ideas? Suggestions?

Re: Geocoding toolbar

JoshWhite — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:47:13 GMT

Did you try deleting your normal.mxt? It can be found in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\ESRI\Desktop<version>\ArcMap

Re: Geocoding toolbar

BenTsang — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:19:46 GMT

Thanks for the response. I haven't tried that yet. I'll try that and get back to you.

Re: Geocoding toolbar

BenTsang — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:22:47 GMT

Josh,

That did it! I had to reconfigure all of my toolbars, but a small price to pay to have a daily-used tool working again. Thanks for your quick reply and solution.