I have a list of addresses in a spreadsheet that was published to ArcGIS Online through the Maps for Office app. I want to update the layer by inserting a new row with address information, however when I do this, I notice that I'm consuming credits through ESRI's geocoder service. The original layer was published with a custom address locator, can I insert rows and geocode with the same address locator so I can avoid consuming credits? I don't want to have to keep creating new layers using our custom geocoding service, I want to be able to continue updating a current layer without consuming credits.
Thanks
Alex,
You can change the default geocoding service to your own geocoding service in Edit Settings->Utility Services-> Geocoding.
You can delete Esri's if you want to, I have. It will come back if you delete your personal geocoding services.
Hope that helps,
Jeff Ward
Summit County, Utah
GIS Coordinator
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the reply. The issue that I'm coming across is that the custom locator will not geocode dynamically as rows are inserted - this functionality only occurs if I'm using ESRI's service. I spoke with someone from ESRI and they couldn't find a solution for my problem. The custom locator works fine when geocoding a new table, it's just when I want to add points to a currently shared service that I run into this problem. The ESRI rep. tried using a beta version for the next release of Maps for Office, and it wasn't a problem for that version, so it looks like I'll just have to wait for 3.0 to come out. (I have getting the problem with v 2.1.4)
Alex